He was deployed to vietnam in april of 1969 and on his second Southeast Asia tour, he participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1975, which, this evening, we will hear more about. He is a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania. And the National War College in washington, d. C. He later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. He moved to kansas city in 1993 and was assigned as the Commanding Officer and later retired from the corps in 1996. Please help me in welcoming colonel Thomas Holden to the stage. [applause] colonel holden thank you. [applause] colonel holden thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. To talk to you tonight about some of my experiences and as i start, i want first to say that i want to speak on behalf of all of the marine pilots that were involved in operation frequent wind when we
Participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1979 which this evening we will hear more about. He is a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania. He later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. He moved to kansas city in 1993 and was assigned as the Commanding Officer and later ps in 1996. M the cor please join me in welcoming colonel Thomas Holden to the stage. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. To talk to you tonight about some of my experiences and as i start i want first to say that i want to speak on behalf of of all of the marine pilots that were involved in operation evacuatedind when we the marines. 77 helicopters took to the air and accomplish that mission and we had great marine corps pilots making that happen. Unfortunately, like a lot of operations, it did not go with
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