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Sunday Morning: Reflection (continued).
The DMZ Operation
Major General Jarvis Lynch, USMC (Retired)
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Major Jarvis Lynch was the operations officer for BLT 2/26, call sign John Brown 3.
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He knew that a month-long search-and-destroy operation in Vietnam's DMZ in 1968 would be no picnic.
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Then, just before the operation was to begin, the senior enlisted Marine in the battalion, World War II and Korea veteran Sergeant Major John Whirley, warned him that he had a bad feeling about this one.
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The sergeant major was right. Over six weeks, the reinforced battalion fought its way out of three helicopter landing zones, with trouble waiting at each one.
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The first one was named LZ Margo...
Major Jarvis Lynch in the DMZ. Photo courtesy of Kent Wonders.
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