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Tom Francis...a bit more
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 17:18:02 -0400, wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 07:30:21 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: John H Before he died, Tom asked me not to mention this because he didn't want to be tooting his own horn. Now that he's died, I don't think it will bother him! During the Vietnam war, Tom was a member of the United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance. Force Reconnaissance (FORECON) is one of the United States Marine Corps' special operations capable forces (SOC). They perform the following tasks (from Wikipedia) Special Reconnaissance Deep Reconnaissance Long-Range Reconnaissance Unconventional Warfare Direct Action Hydrographic Reconnaissance Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO) In other words, they are the meanest, sonsabitches in the valley. If you ever get a chance to go through the Marine Corps Museum at the Marine Corps Base Quantico, you'll find a picture of the camoflaged Tom Francis in the Force Recon section of the Vietnam portion of the museum. My old buddy since Cub Scouts was Recon. He was my roomie for 3 years after and he never wanted to talk about it. That usually means it was pretty ugly from what I know of combat guys but the recon boys were in the grass for most of their tour. It wasn't Budweiser and pizza for them. I never knew Tom but I hope he was able to escape the demons. My buddy wasn't that lucky. Tom was the type of guy who took personal adversities as a reason to help others. Even when I knew him he had some major health issues but they never dampened his spirit. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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