Mike Company               

Third Battalion, Fifth Marines

RVN, 1966 -1971

March 1999, additions

March 31, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1.  Added 3 pictures from Paul O'Connell.

2.  Added a map page under the picture page. Color map of the northern Arizona and the Hills north of it to Charlie Ridge.

3.  Added Debbie's poem, Nam. If you'd like to know what it feels like to be a wife married to a vet, please read.

4.  Added Bill Shipley's picture to the H&S picture page.

5.  Added more links (1/4 and Humidity Moon).

March 29, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1.  Added four pictures from Brad Reynolds and current picture of Chuck and Mo Greene, to our picture page.

2.  Added four pictures from Mark DeSciscio, of Hill 65 under Charlie Ridge, to the H&S picture page.

3.  Added Grady Rainbow's bio, to the roster page.

4.  Added new links.

5.  Added a story from Ed McCurry, titled FNG, to the stories page.

March 26, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1. Added Gary Bolen's bio to the roster.

2. Added Gary Bolen's picture to the picture page.

3. Fixed a broken link to the Memorial page.

March 25, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1. Added Paul O'Connell's bio to the roster.

March 23, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1. Added Gary Bolen to the roster.  Gary was with Mike Company in 1966-67.  Welcome Gary!

2. Added brief biographies of some our members.  You will find them at the bottom of the Mike Company roster and the H&S Company roster.

3. Added Paul O'Connell's tribute to the fallen warriors he knew from Mike Company in 68-69.

4. Added Mark DeSciscio's picture of Roy Gomez on Hill 65, to the H&S picture page.

March 22, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1. Added Dennis Mahilo and Craig "Top" Sullivan to the roster.   Dennis was in 2nd Platoon in 1969.  Craig was with the company in '67 and '68. Welcome Dennis and Craig!

2. Added Mark DeSciscio to the H&S roster.   Mark was in Motor T and trucked all over the An Hoa basin in '69 and '70. Welcome Mark! Folks, Mark's looking for his friend,Roy Gomez,from 3/5 days.   His last contact with Roy was from an L.A. vet center in '94 or '95.

3. The 3/5 emblem pictured above is the Vietnam Era emblem the battalion used then.   With thanks to Grady Rainbow for scanning the plaque he received while in the hospital in Nam.  (As an interesting aside, Grady designed the current 2/5 emblem in 1976 while he was the Op Chief in S-3).

4. Added pictures from Top Sullivan, Brad Reynolds, Paul O'Connell and Jerry Lomax. 

5. Added a picture from me, then, to the H&S picture page.  Also added a picture from Curtis Eidson, India 3/5, of a friend he's looking for from H&S 81s, '67-'68.

March 19, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1.  Added Bob Clabaugh to the H&S roster.

2.  Added pictures to the H&S picture page, from Bob Clabaugh, Bill Shipley and me.  Enlarged Bill's Camp Roberts picture to make the names readable.

3.  Added Jerry Lomax's ditty, The Song of Mike, to a song page.  You gotta read it.

4.  Added a picture of Jerry Lomax, now.  Also, replaced Brad, Debbe and Doc Parlee's picture with a better one.

March 18, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1.  Added a guestbook (from guestworld). 

2.  Added Dennis Tylinski to the roster.

3.  Added a picture from Bill Shipley (H&S).

4.  Added pictures from Brad Reynolds and Jerry Lomax. (Note:  all pictures are now thumbnailed for faster loading...double click them to see the full version).

5.  Added Debbe's poem Forgotten Warriors.

6.  Link to Colonel Rockey's farewell address to his battalion, 3/5, 27 March 1968. The text is located on The Vietnam Veteran's Home Page.

March 17, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1.  Added four pictures from Chuck Greene and Jerry Lomax. 

2.  Updated Roster.

3.  Added Brad's poem, My Enemy.  Please read!

4.   Put the 3/5 emblem back!

March 16, 1999 (click on the underlined words to jump to that section).

1.  Added three pictures.

2.  Added Debbie Reynolds' poetic tribute to her husband, Brad.

3.  More names to the roster.

4.  Link to Paul O'Connell's letters home from in country.  A whole series of them can be found here, in the remembrance section of the Vietnam Veterans Home Page.