[Homer_J_Simpson]

Also on this day 1966, I left left for Parris Island. Semper Fi ...

Followed no doubt by a trip to southeast Asia a few months later. By the time I got to the Navy's Hospital Corps school in San Diego in Sept. 1970 I believe they had stopped deploying Marines to Vietnam. I may be wrong on that. Anyway, we learned that earlier entire classes, upon graduation, were loaded onto trucks and transported to Camp Pendleton. Goodbye USN, hello USMC.

Thanks for answering the call, oh8eleven.

[oh8eleven]

Thanks for answering the call, oh8eleven.
You too Doc. How did it feel to be a "corpseman?"
I did 13 months on the DMZ ... never a dull moment.

[Ecliptic]

Not sure when Marines were stopped being sent to Vietnam. I was in the Delta in early ‘70 when my brother wrote me saying he was going to be sent to Vietnam. There was a rule at the time about only one brother being allowed in a combat zone at any one time. So my Company CO sent my brother’s CO a letter saying I was already in Vietnam. My brother was stationed on a ship for the rest of his time.
So, at least around April ‘70 they were still being sent.