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During the Vietnam War, Marine Corps Veteran Carlos Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills of North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong personnel.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Gordon Giffels, who deployed with the first group of Marine Raiders during World War II.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Mark R. Black, who was killed in action during Vietnam while supplying ammunition to other Marines.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Arthur Roland Keller, who served in a WWI machine gun battalion at the Battle of Soissons.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Saul P. Arsht, who served as an aircraft log clerk at Marine Station K-6 during the Korean War.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Jaden J. Kim, who deployed multiple times as a pilot to Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Christopher Slutman, who served from 2005 to 2019 before being killed in action.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran John E. Foster, who served in the DMZ in South Korea and with the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Thomas Zayas, who received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal during the Korean War.

When families of a deceased Veteran start planning burials at Quantico National Cemetery in Virginia, one of the program support assistants they may meet is a Veteran who chose to work for VA to serve fellow Veterans. Damion Jacobs enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1993. His assignments included Camp Pendleton, California, where he deployed three times, including to shut down humanitarian operations in Mogadishu, Somalia. Jacobs also spent a year protecting the fence line at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an instructor at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California, and deployed to Iraq as an augmentee for the initial invasion in 2003. After his instructor assignment, Jacobs went back to Camp Pendleton, where he deployed twice. During his second deployment in 2006, an improvised explosive device detonated near Jacobs. He lost his leg below the knee.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran George William Alexander, who served as a recon Marine during the Vietnam War.