October 16, 2019 Added new section to the USMC STATESIDE - 5th
FORCE RECON SECTION called Miscellaneous
Photos and Items and the first item this new section is
5th Force Reconnaissance Company "Dependants Day" Nov 4, 1967
a 2 page pamphlet showing the six activities
and
participates. THANKS
to Louis "Lou" KERN for providing this item. April 9, 2019 Addd Jimmy "Shakey" LINN Team "Lunga Point" toGENERAL
PHOTOGRAPHS
Feb. 26, 2019 Added the 34 Dive and Operation Orders (after action
records) links to
the LISTING
OF PATROLS FOR: David B. THOMPSONunder
ROSTERS
and LISTS section. So if
wanted to see the complete debriefs for
the patrol or dive you were on with
Thompson you are all set - just click
the links.
Cpl Kenneth "Kenny" FEO in Photographs
From Others,GENERAL
PHOTOGRAPHS, TEAMS
and GROUPS as well as Thompson's
Patrols.I am searching
to find him. June 26, 2018 Those of us that know Kyle Watts, who was a
Captain is the USMC, or has read his
articles that he has written for Leatherneck
Magazine (including those on the 26th Marines
and the two on the 1st Force Recon (Hue
City Dive in 1968 and The Ladder Extract in January 1969
with follow up story with the reunion of Bob BUDA,
Dave THOMPSON and the Pilot Larry Adams),
will be happy to heard that he has a NEW WEBSITE
where you can reread those articles, give him
ideas for future articles, and MORE. He stated "I've decided to start a website with my
writing to hopefully continue progressing in
my goal of pursuing it full time, and hopefully connect me with more
veterans . . " So plan a visit and let your fellow marines known
the site: Battlesight
Zero www.bzohistory.com I have added his web page link on my LINKS
PAGE. June 24, 2018 FLEMING photos completed in Photographs
From Others under FLEMING and TEAMS
and GROUPS
photos #18, 19 and #20 at the end HELP ID the missing names and
THANKS again Dick. June 15, 2018 Richard H. FLEMING (my asst. Team Leader in
Forefather) provided many given/nick names
as well as many photos that will be added to Photographs
From Others(at a later date). I updated GENERAL
PHOTOGRAPHS, TEAMS
and GROUPS as well as Thompson's
Patrols. I have also added his book
"CHASING CHARLIE" in the Books
section. THANKS Dick FLEMING February 27, 2018 Added 2 more photographs Under BAKER to Photographs
From Other People and Sources. February 26, 2018 Added 8 photographs Under BAKER from Jeffrey BAKER who was
with Co. "C" in
1st Recon Bn. in
DaNang and with 1st Force Recon Comm Section under Lt Hansen in
An Hoa and later at Hill 10 to Photographs
From Other People and Sources. Welcome aboard
Jeffrey and thanks for the additional
An Hoa shots and of the ladder Training on Hill 10.
Also added "Sierra Sandwich Club - Ladder Recon Extract Patch" photo from Capt. ADAMS under above section. February 13, 2018 Added 1 photograph (VOGEL-016) Under VOGEL (near bottom of
the page)
to Photographs
From Other People and Sources. Team "Petrify" team photo. Thanks Fred.
Added also to TEAMS
and GROUPS section see new Photo 17 all ID's by Bob Buda.
Thanks Bob.
January 19, 2018 Now using the Site
Map with quick links format for Main Menu. January 15, 2018 It's my honor to add Capt Larry ADAMS CH-46
Pilot of the HMM-165 to GENERAL
PHOTOGRAPHS
section and to PHOTOGRAPHS
FROM OTHERS. Capt
ADAMS inserted
and extracted many of our
recon patrols. Was the 1st Pilot to use the SIMMON's rig
under
combat conditions with the extract of "Team Forefather" in Jan-1969
which earned
him the
NAVY CROSS & myself and my team "Team Forefather" THANKS for that
day. January 15, 2018 All the links & pages now on
davidbrentthompson.com (my new website)
and
appear to working 100%.
January 12, 2018 I have purchased a
domain name and rented space for my webpages on iPage
since my ROOTSWEB site stopped working. I have uploaded all the pages
to my new site.
I am working on making sure all the pages load proper and the links
work.
If the link take to a bad ROOTSWEB page just click your BACK key to
back out.
Added 2 photos (WEST-002 -003)
to TEAMS
and GROUPS section see new Photos 15 and 16.
Added 13
individual photos from Hal West's team photos to General
Photograph
Section. May 13, 2017 Added Hubert H. BAILEY (ID
by Steven Cicalese) and HM3 M.W. Mike 'Doc' ROBERTSON
(ID Rick
"Rabbi" Rabenold)to individual
photos at General
Photograph
Section and in Teams
and Groups. Photos #01 & #10 for BAILEY and Photo #14 for
ROBERTSON. April 1, 2017 Added 3 photographs (see # 15,16,17) Under QUIGLEY
1st Force "Swift Scout"
to Photographs
From Other People and Sources. THANKS AGAIN Larry!
Two photos to the TEAMS
and GROUPS section see new Photos 13 and 14.
NOTE: In my listing or any where on a
web page REMEMBER to Use Ctrl/F to find items.
Example Ctrl/F and type in UNKEL
to find all the places he is listed. Or Ctrl/F and type in
D12- to find and move right to the Dive Mission 12
I will work on
other Teams and Operations for 1968 as time permits - and a big
THANK YOU to
Rabbi for helping provide Team Leader listings. Feb 27, 2017 Added a Teams
and Operations for February 1968 page under
ROSTERS
and LISTS. I
still have to add more Team Leaders names and I'll be working on that. Feb 24, 2017 Added 3 photographs (see # 8,9,10) from QUIGLEY
1st Force "Swift Scout"
to Photographs
From Other People and Sources. THANKS Larry!
Two of his new photos made it
to the TEAMS
and GROUPS section see new Photo 10
and Photo 11
both of Team Swift Scout in Jan and Feb of 1968. Feb 15, 2017 Added a new section on the my Main page
called
ROSTERS
and LISTS.
And THANKS AGAIN to Larry F. "Quig"
QUIGLEY 1st Force "Swift Scout", I have added First
Force Recon ROSTER PhuBai RVN Feb-1968 to this new section.
I added the MOS Descriptions
and the CO, XO, ect data. The Roster that Larry got
from the ARCHIVES was not
readable in places, mostly the numbers (think we needed
a typewriter repairman on the roster) so
when I retyped by hand all the data,
you may find some errors.
Now I can use this little
gold mine of data to add given names and ranks to my photos. Jan 23, 2017 Added 7 photographs from Larry F. "Quig"
QUIGLEY 1st Force "Swift Scout"
to Photographs
From Other People and Sources. THANKS Larry!
Jan 19, 2017 Added ADAMS, COLUCCI, COOK, DOBSON, DUNLAP,
HUGHES, SCHMITT,
SHAW, UNKEL individual
photo to the General
Photograph
Section. and updated these
nine names at ID
These People in Teams and Groups. THANKS TO Rick "Rabbi" RABENOLD and
Larry QUIGLEY for the ID's.
Jan 08, 2017 Added a TINY photo next to each name that you
can view before clicking
the link to see
the full size
photo in the General
Photograph
Section. Jan 07, 2017 Ran spell checker and corrected many typos on
the web pages.
Jan 06, 2017 Added photographs from BUDA, FINLAYSON and VOGEL to
new webpage called Photographs
From Other People and Sources.