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John Folk last modified: August 11, 2011
Personal Information:
Member Status: Profile
First MI Last Name: John Folk
Nickname:
Email: jfolk_AT_us_DOT_ibm_DOT_com
City: Denver
State: North Carolina
ZIP: 28037
Country: United States
Gender: Male
Homepage:
Occupation: Project Executive
Company: IBM
Company Web Site: ibm.com
USMC:
Years in-out: 1968-1972
Vietnam in-out: 1969-1970
MOS-Language: 2571/ 2574-Czech
Last Rank: USMC-Sgt
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Conflicts I was awarded medals
  Vietnam
War zone locations - year US Naval Ships - year
  Vietnam: An Hoa 1970
  Vietnam: Chu Lai 1970
  Vietnam: Con Thien 1970
  Vietnam: Danang 1969
  Vietnam: Dong Ha 1969
  Vietnam: FSBFuller/ Dong Ha Mtn 1970
  Vietnam: Hill 37 1970
  Vietnam: Hill 63/LZ Baldy 1969
  Vietnam: Hill 327 1970
  Vietnam: Hill 364 1969
  Vietnam: Hue 1970
  Vietnam: Khe Sanh 1970
  Vietnam: Marble Mountain 1969
  Vietnam: Phu Bai 1969
  USS Hancock locateUSSHancock
  USS Ticonderoga locateUSSTiconderoga
US CT locations - year Other CT locations - year
  Camp Pendelton, CA 1968
  Monterey, CA 1968
  Pensacola, FL 1968
  United Kingdom: Edzell, Scotland 1971

USMC Travels:

NCTC, Pensacola - 11/68-03/69
DLI (Monterey) - 3/69-06/69
Vietnam 7-69 - 8/70
Edzell, Scotland 9/70-8/72

Based out of DaNanag, but spent time at many 1st Bn sites in I corps

Personal Quote:

Ya'll ain't gonna believe this shit...

Hobbies:

Still play ice hockey, lots of golf

News:

3 Kids, all grown and gone. Oldest works for Homleand Security; one job role he had was to shut down the Company B comm building in Scotland a few years back. Irony is he was born there.

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