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H&S had a company office like the line companies, responsible for keeping Unit Diaries, Service Record Books.

My only recollection of HQ Company was a company clerk named Dave Elliot. He did a 13 month tour, re-upped, took a 30 day leave, then came back to the battalion. He went with a 1/1 rifle company as a grunt. I wasn't there, but I had to write the casualty report June 2, 1969. He was killed when he opened an ammo can in a recently abandoned camp they walked into. He had time to shout a warning before it blew, so he was the only one hit. He's at  Panel 23W, Line 43. He was a good guy. His choices affected some of my decisions later on.

I would like to build a list of H&S Company CO's. The only one I can remember is Capt. Trautwein, former CO of C 1/1.

Battalion Commanding Officers 1/1 6

LtCol D.V. Mcloskey 

 08/28/65-09/27/65

LtCol H.A. Hatch 

 09/28/65-03/31/66
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LtCol Van D. Bell 

 04/01/66-06/04/67
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LtCol George E Petro 

 06/05/67-08/27/67

LtCol Belbusti 

 08/28/67-11/16/67

LtCol. Marcus J. Gravel 

 11/17/67-06/08/68
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LtCol Archie Van Winkle 

Picture on Hill 689 on July 9, 1968

 06/08/68-09/07/68

LtCol Albert W. Keller 

 09/08/68-10/14/68

LtCol Alphonse A. Laporte, Jr. having a beer with 1/1 Marines after Meade River. -photo from Randy Toi

Dear Friends,

I am sorry to say Al died today (02/12/2005) about 530 PM. It happened so fast. Last week he was reasonably well. Starting Monday he seemed to go down hill every day. We had Hospice here with a hospital bed, etc. Last night he  was struggling so to breath the Hospice RN stayed with us till 3AM. He settled down and was not restless or struggling so we thought he was OK. Wasn't.

It was a good day in that Lynn, John, Jenni, Gareth, Justin (my family),  Ginny (Al's sister from Cape Cod), Tom and Tony (Al's sons from Houston and New York) were all here with us all day. He couldn't respond, but we know he knew we were here. Then he just slipped away. 

Thanks for all your prayers.  We know it was prayers that made this time  relatively easy and his passing so peaceful.

Al would say Semper Fi.

Love, Edie
 

 10/15/68-03/28/69
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LtCol W.P. Morganthaler 

 03/29/69-10/09/69

LtCol G.S. Delcuze 

 10/09/69-03/15/70
Capt StClair S2; Lt. Col Little 1/1 Bn CO; Maj Marks S3 on top of Charlie Ridge 1970 - photo from Mike StClair

LtCol C.G. Little

Capt StClair S2,  Lt. Col Little 1/1 Bn CO,  Maj Marks S3  on top of Charlie Ridge 1970

 03/16/70-07/08/70
Lt. Col Rose Sgt Maj Smith Capt StClair Hill 52 1970 - photo from Mike StClair

LtCol R.P. Rose

Lt. Col Rose,  Sgt Maj Smith, Capt StClair  Hill 52 1970

 07/09/70-05/03/71

Compiled from collective memory at the onelist. Thanks to Ed Yates for the page build.


Former 1/1 Battalion Commanding Officers, LtCol Belbusti, LtCol Van D. Bell, LtCol Bourne (1st into Afghanistan), LtCol A. A. LaPorte at the 2003 Reunion in Washington, DC.

Battalion Executive Officers 1/1 5

Maj George '65
Maj John A. Scott '66-67
Maj U. C. Wells '68
Maj R.L. Walsh '68
Maj J. W. Dion '68-69

Maj Vreeland 

 '69
Maj P. D. Slack '70
 

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