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John Bates | 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment - Marines

6:10   |   Nothing can live through that. John Bates watched as a massive air strike hit the NVA position in front of him. What he didn't know is that they had a plan for that and one of them would send him to the rear with a hole through his chest.

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    The Marines sent him home after he received three Purple Hearts in Vietnam. John Bates then served a few months at Camp Horno before they sent him home. He was not done with the Corps, though, and would return as an officer.

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