1st Battalion 9th Marines

[Mledford]

My friend told me of an old Vietnam vet that he met today that was in 1st Battalion 9th Marines, nicknamed The Walking Dead. I had never heard of them so, naturally, I googled them and a wikipedia article came up. I was amazed at what I was reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Battalion_9th_Marines

During the entire Vietnam Conflict the Battalion was engaged in combat for 47 months and 7 days. From June 15th, 1965 - July 14th, 1969 they participated in 43 operations. They had the highest KIA rate in Marine Corps history, coming to 93.63% (approximately 747 Marines) killed in action and 0.25% (approximately 2 Marines) missing in action.

I think this is an important part of Marine Corps history and since we're all supposed to know ours, I thought I might as well give a lesson.

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[Yonkers]

Have heard of them surprisingly, soo many dead Marines.. jeeze :|

[Nate2004]

My Dad was part of the 9th Marines for his first tour... Always tells me how many he saw fall beside him and stuff like that...pretty crazy...after that he went back to the states for a couple months and returned on a Force Recon team...