Jack LARKIN

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First Year in Viet Nam with Alpha, 1/7:	1967

Spouse/Partner:	MELANIE ~ NOW 37 YEARS

Occupation:	RETIRED - disability 90%

Children:	MATTHEW 1972 ~ JOHN 1980 ~ SARAH 1988 EACH ONE A FIRST CHILD

Military Service:	United States Marine Corps

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PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT SINCE 1968...
around 2008 my Spinal Stenosis started to get really bad...
I can't walk to well now but I get long distances with a walker.

I text or talk to Harvey Jordan who was my A Gun team Leader - he lives in Dunedin Florida with his wife Barbara. Harvey and I were tight after we lost 2nd Squad guns to a claymore Jordan was the only one left in it. He came over to my 3rd Squad Guns and we were at Hill 10.

LT Mullins WAS alive and kicking.. Corpsman told me he was KIA the night Terry Williams bought it... Found LT through another site.. but we talked on a regular basis... lt mullins passed away a couple of months back...

Found Johnny Seiler... said he was looking for me too...

If anyone wants to talk or email with me it's ok... Semper Fi Alpha Company...

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Alpha 1/7 V.N. Stories and life experience since:

I came to Alpha company in October 1966. I was crossing the San Tra Bong River in the back of the mail truck. I had not been issued any gear yet - so I had little to do but duck when the truck got hit going towards A company hill from the river. The bullets were hitting all over the bed of the truck and the colored nylon mail bags were getting holes shot through them. We stopped at a small building at the bottom of the company hill. My old buddy Tiny from gun school was on a 60 shooting up at some in-coming. I jumped out of the truck and asked an officer standing in the blown out building if I could use his 45. He said, "Why?" I said, "Because your not using it. The incoming fire was dying down. The LT. looked at me and said, "When you get to Battalion - ask to be put in Alpha Company". I did and I was home.

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Mar 22, 2023 at 1:35 PM

Posted on: Mar 08, 2023 at 12:26 PM

HEY TIM.... GUNS UP...
LIKE YOUR BOOK... WHEN IS THE NEXT ADDITION ???
CPL. JACK LARKIN... A CO. 66-67 3RD SQUAD GUNS...

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Feb 04, 2023 at 1:36 PM

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Sep 18, 2022 at 12:25 PM

HI TIM... GREAT BOOK... THANK YOU FOR HONORING RAYMO... VERY GOOD STUFF...
JOHNNY SEILER FROM 3RD SQUAD GUNS JUST SIGNED ON THIS SITE... DO YOU REMEMBER HIM.. I'LL PUT HIS PHOTO HERE TO SEE IF YOU CAN RECALL HIM WITH GUNS... I'M SURE YOU BOTH SHARED PATROLS...

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Sep 18, 2022 at 10:24 AM

hey Sargent Jurk... Just checking in... The last time you contacted me - I had just got done with the Covid but it hasn't gotten done with me...
Hope you are ok and doing fine... This is my favorite Photo of you.. out of all of them that you have sent me...
Semper Fi Frankie...

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Sep 17, 2022 at 9:36 AM

LEDFORD T MULLINS DIED ON AUGUST 13 2022... HE JOINED THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN PARADISE... HE LEFT HIS SWEETHEART HELEN AND HIS FAMILY HERE TO JOIN HIS LATER ON...
LT WAS IN MY SQUAD I967... O331 GUNS.. WE TOOK HIM FROM MORTARS AT HIS REQUEST... HE LIKED GUNS... HE WAS MY BROTHER AND MY FRIEND... I MISS HIM BIG TIME... TAPS...
CPL JACK LARKIN

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Sep 17, 2022 at 9:21 AM

HI JOHNNY
THOUGHT I'D POST YOUR PHOTOS...
AFTER ALMOST 56 YEARS - WE HAVE FOUND EACH OTHER AGAIN...
THANK YOU...
CPL JACK LARKIN

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Aug 16, 2022 at 4:10 PM

SAD TO SAY... LEDFORD T. "LT" MULLINS CHANGED DUTY STATIONS THIS LAST SATURDAY AUGUST 13 2022.. AT THE AGE OF 74... HE WAS IN 3RD SQUAD GUNS ALPHA COMPANY - AS A GUNNER - HE WAS WOUNDED BY A GRENADE PLACED NEXT TO HIS HEAD ON SEPT 5TH 1967 WHILE ON AN AMBUSH... CPL. TERRY WILLIAMS WAS KIA FROM THE SAME GRENADE... THE CORPSMAN GAVE ME MULLINS DOG TAG AND TOLD ME I HAD LOST TWO MEN.. TERRY AND LT... HE SAID LT WAS KIA.. FOR 40 PLUS YEARS I CARRIED LT'S DOG TAG WITH ME EVERY MEMORIAL DAY.. THEN WHEN I CHECKED THE VIRTUAL WALL.. LT'S NAME WAS MISSING... WE FOUND EACH OTHER AFTER 4 DECADES... WE ENJOYED TALKING TO EACH OTHER FOR MANY YEARS... HE DIED THIS LAST WEEKEND AND LEFT HIS SWEETHEART HELEN AT HOME IN MEANS KY.
LT WILL BE PULLING GUARD DUTY ON THE STREETS OF HEAVEN... HE KNEW AND LOVED HIS LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST...
LT WAS MY FRIEND AND I WILL MISS HIM UNTIL I CROSS OVER TO BE PART OF HIS UNIT IN HEAVEN...PULLING GUARD DUTY WITH HIM... ><>
CPL JACK LARKIN 3RD SQUAD LDR GUNS 66-67
GUNS UP....

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May 19, 2022 at 1:54 PM

MEMORIAL DAY 2022 is coming upon us... Every Memorial Day I like to go to the ceremony at the Veteran's grave sites ~ Hold the dog tags that I have from those I lost in my Squad... or of those who were close to me in the war... I also say Hi - see you when God takes me - to those who have died after the war... They get to kick up and watch us on the flat screen in the squad bay...
I will say Hi to Donnie Detmer who was with me through PI 226 Sir and got KIA in Country in the field with another unit... From Alpha Company I will say Salute and Semper Fi to.....
Winston Raymo - Danny O'Connor - Richard Haas - Carl Boudreaux - Jack Belcher - Philip Moore
I know a few more on the Alpha co. KIA list but not as well as these guys... I miss these guys from Company A .. most dearly... taps...

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Nov 11, 2021 at 11:37 AM

I DIDN'T KNOW CORPSMEN COULD READ ??
HI LT.... GOD BLESS YOU AND HELEN THIS VETERANS DAY... I THINK OF YOU OFTEN...I'M HOPING WE CAN TURN OUR COUNTRY AROUND 2021 HAS BEEN A VERY BAD YEAR FOR THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM... NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE KILLING COMMIES IN MY OWN COUNTRY ..BUT YOU NEVER CAN TELL HOW THINGS CAN CHANGE...STAY FROSTY LT...
DID YOU KNOW I WENT THROUGH BOOT CAMP WITH PHIL WEEKS PI PLT 226...
WE COURT MARTIALED OUR DI'S.. ONE FOR MURDER...
ANYWAY... PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF... YOUR BROTHER JACK LARKIN

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Oct 04, 2021 at 4:57 PM

Posted on: Sep 24, 2021 at 1:53 PM

REMEMBER WHEN THEY PAID US TO KILL COMMIES... NOW THEY ARE IN CONGRESS... AND THE WHITE HOUSE... HEADS UP...

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Sep 16, 2021 at 10:09 AM

HI RICK... THANKS FOR MAKING IT BACK... SEMPER FI....

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Sep 13, 2021 at 8:59 AM

HI LT

I REMEMBER LARRY... AT LEAST I REMEMBER HIS SMILE...

IS THIS HIS SQUAD ? HELP ME OUT HERE... DO YOU SEE HIM HERE ???

THANKS

JACK

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Sep 13, 2021 at 8:59 AM

HI LT

I REMEMBER LARRY... AT LEAST I REMEMBER HIS SMILE...

IS THIS HIS SQUAD ? HELP ME OUT... DO YOU SEE HIM HERE ???

THANKS

JACK

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Posted: Apr 10, 2019 at 12:04 PM

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

This is me now. I am an old fart but I am still very much a Marine inside. I can't walk very well but I still shoot straight.

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

ME AND TOMMY THOMPSON AFTER HE GOT BACK TO A COMPANY

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

3RD SQUAD GUNS ~ ME AND SQUAD LEADER DANNY O'CONNOR KNEELING
wHITNEY ~ BELCHER ~ AND SIELER STANDING

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

ME STANDING WATCH OVER A COMPANY WITH MY M14 ~ MISS THAT RIFLE.

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

THIS IS THE ROAD FROM THE RIVER TO OUR ALPHA COMPANY THEN UP TO BATTALION...VERY DANGEROUS ROAD!!

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

ARMY LINES GUARDING THE BIG GUNS AND BLOWING OFF STEAM ~ COPE VS LARKIN ~ COPE WON

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

CHECKING IN THE VILLAGE

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

DUTY HILL FROM THE DUNES

Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 12:21 AM

ALPHA COMPANY 1-7 ON THE MOVE