George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
If you served with or were attached to Mike 3/7 in Vietnam, there are Marines looking for you!. Mike 3/7 Vietnam Association is open to ALL personnel assigned to and attached to Mike 3/7 during the Vietnam War from 1965-1970. This site contains all the KIA casualties and a fairly complete roster of known Mike 3/7 members. Mike Company unit history and awards are to be found there also. The definitive resource for Mike 3/7 on the web.
This site was first built in 1996. This is it's third overhaul and update. The site has always been a memorial to the author's friends. It is financed solely out of the authors own pocket. Over the years there have been numerous requests to place paid ads on this site. The answer to those requests have been and always will be thanks, but no thanks. Its a memorial not a billboard.
This site is not an official site of either the United States Marine Corp nor The United States Navy. Officially it is only the heart of the author speaking. It should not be considered an official record of the events described within these pages but rather the recollections of an old man of the time when he was a youth of nineteen.
This site is essentially apolitical. If the reader is trying to find out whether the war was right or wrong they will have took look elsewhere. It is not the goal of the site to persuade the readers one way or the other. The readers will have to figure that issue out for themselves. The author's view is simply this. We went there because we were told to. We stayed there because we were told to. We left there because we were told to. This is the duty of a professional American military. It is the duty of the American citizen to figure the why, when and the where of sending troops to war.
Dennis K. Boettcher served two tours as a platoon corpsmen during the Vietnam War. This site is about the first tour with Mike 3/7 from the fall of 1968 to spring of 1969. The author served with Third Platoon under Lieutenants Mason and Donelson. Captain Paul Van Riper was the Company Commander and Lieutenant Colonel Quinn the Battalion Commanding Officer.
The Author graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Later he received a Masters Degrees in Social Work and Business Administration.
Occupation: Professional Curmudgeon