2nd Battalion 9th Marines
China Beach
Dewey Canyon lasted 56 days, with us going into Laos. Hotel Co. ambushed a NVA convey on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The 9th Marines captured the largest store of weapons and some 122 Russian Artillery pieces, one of which was dismantled and put in the Museum at Quantico Virginia. At one point, the first part of Feb., we went a week without resupplies, and our units went back to the Firebases and stopped patrols due to lack of supplies. After the operation we ended up going to China Beach for in country R&R . It was at this time I volunteered for the Combined Action Group. The 9th Marines later received the Army Presidential Unit Citation for the operation.
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