LOYDE P. ARENDER
'Snake'
- A Letter to My Combat Buddies
- Combat Clichés
- Combat Metamorphosis
- Crying in the Rain
- Dreams of Nam
- For God and Country
- I Tried
- If
- I'll Be With You in Heaven
- In Remembrance of Lt. Joyce
- In Viet Nam Today, Somebody Died
- Night Patrol
- Semper Fi Heart
- The Point Man
- Think of Me
- This War
- Torn in Time
- War Chest
- Young Warrior's Reflection
USMC
Enlisted: 28 June 1968
Discharged: 26 March 1971
Military Occupational Specialty (MOS: 0331) Machine Gunner/Infantry
Combat Unit: Kilo Co 3rd BN, 26th Marines
Wounded-In-Action: 31 Jan 1969; 28 February 1969; 04 March 1969; 17 April 1969; 29 January 1970.
Loyde was a member of Platoon 1035 which graduated on September 4, 1968. His Drill Instructors were: Gunnery Sergeant C.C. Dean, Staff Sergeant D.C. Puckett, and Sergeant J. Demumbrum.
At least 2 Marines who were in Platoon 1035 were Killed-In-Action in Viet Nam. Platoon Honorman and Blues Award: Ralph Terence Lomen (KIA: June 7, 1969) and Donald Arthur Martin (KIA: December 12, 1969).
While serving with the 26th Marine Regiment, Loyde was a part of, attached to, or op-con with the following three divisions: 1st, 3rd, 5th. For a while, he was also under the command of the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade (9th MAB).
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In an effort to Reunite and/or Remember personnel who served in Viet Nam with the 26th Marine Regiment, a no cost 26th Marines Buddy Locator Registry website has been constructed