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
The clerk en bloc number 6 consisting of amendments 7, ered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 printed in part g of house report number 116438, offered by mr. Graves of missouri. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the amendment en bloc. Members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of epresentatives. ] the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Beyer as the member designated by ms. Moore pursuant to House Resolution 965 i inform the house that ms. Moore will vote yea on the amendment en bloc number six. As the member designated mr. Lowenthal pursuant to House Resolution 965, i inform the house, mr. Lowenthal will vote neigh on the amendment en bloc numb
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April of 1969. On his second Southeast Asia tour, he participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off of the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1975. We will hear more about that evening. Hes a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania and the National War College in washington, d. C. He later served as a marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. In 1993 to kansas city and was assigned as the commanding officer. He later retired in 1996. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome colonel Thomas Holden the stage. [applause] col. Holden thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be here. Aboutk to you tonight some of my experiences. As i start, i want to first say, i want to speak on behalf of all the marine pilot that participated in operation frequent wind when we evacuated the embassy in cambodia. Airelicopters took to the and accomplished that mission.