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were not getting better in that Country—there had been several ‘coups’ in the South Vietnamese Government and it appeared that our Country’s leaders were clueless regarding a winning strategy—while Marines were being killed in large numbers as a result of the ineptitude of the military/political command decisions. Putting it simply—and speaking for myself—I didn’t trust that command structure enough to put my life in their hands—again! Decisions regarding Marines weren’t being made just by Marines—they were often being made by high level Army and political bureaucrats—along with the unstable South Vietnamese Government. Many of our young ‘career minded’ officers saw this and decided they did not want to throw their hat into that ring—again!
Joe Lloyd literally ‘disappeared’ from my radar when we were ‘mixmastered’ from 2/7—I don’t know much about him , where he went or what happened to him and have not been successful in finding out much about him.
Jerry Kozak, came back from Nam—was assigned as Company Commander at San Diego Recruit Training Command while being promoted to Captain. Shortly thereafter General English selected Jerry as the General’s aide. Meanwhile, Jerry had met ‘Mrs. Kozak' and wanted to start a family. Jerry was facing the same critical decision to stay in the Corps. and face a turnaround tour in Viet nam. He chose to leave and began a new career working for Ross Perot—the millionaire business man who ran for the office of President of the United States.
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