Interview with John Kline: clip: Completing training at Quantico and deciding to go to flight school; going to Army Flight School in Texas and Alabama; orders to go to Vietnam in 1971; he swapped assignments with an enlisted Marine who had already done one tour and was not eager to go back; May 1971, landing in Okinawa; stopped there for a time; patrolling the waters off Vietnam; sweeping mines in Haiphong harbor; in Philippines when U.S. POWs were released. School in Texas and Alabama; orders to go to Vietnam in 1971; he swapped assignments with an enlisted Marine who had already done one tour and was not eager to go back; May 1971, landing in Okinawa; stopped there for a time; patrolling the waters off Vietnam; sweeping mines in Haiphong harbor; in Philippines when U.S. POWs were released.

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John Kline - Interview with John Kline: clip: Completing training at Quantico and deciding to go to flight school; going to Army Flight School in Texas and Alabama; orders to go to Vietnam in 1971; he swapped assignments with an enlisted Marine who had already done one tour and was not eager to go back; May 1971, landing in Okinawa; stopped there for a time; patrolling the waters off Vietnam; sweeping mines in Haiphong harbor; in Philippines when U.S. POWs were released. School in Texas and Alabama; orders to go to Vietnam in 1971; he swapped assignments with an enlisted Marine who had already done one tour and was not eager to go back; May 1971, landing in Okinawa; stopped there for a time; patrolling the waters off Vietnam; sweeping mines in Haiphong harbor; in Philippines when U.S. POWs were released.
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