Re: The Longest War: Navy Deaths in Vietnam

"Ed Medlin" <ed@ edmedlin.com> wrote in message
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>> "Otis Willie PIO The American War Library"
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>>> The Longest War: Navy Deaths in Vietnam
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>>> From the Webmaster: Type of duty Killed In Action Percent of Total Navy
>>> KIA...
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>>> http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/usnkia.htm
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>> Just curious.  Why so many Navy ground deaths?  Were they serving with
>> Marine units?
> Marine Corpmen are Navy. Also, all deaths on boats (inland) are considered
> "ground" deaths since they were not technically "at sea". If
death occured
> on a boat while transiting along the coast then it would be considered a
> death "at sea". The relatively few of these seem about right since there
> were few threats to us there overall.
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> Ed-
> USN RM2
> 3rd Marine Amphibs Danang
> NSA Danang Lighterage
> MACV Advisory Group Vietnamazation Program Binh Thuy
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Thanks.  That would certainly explain it.
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