Platoon 101 Yearbook
"The Teenage Killers"
The Story Behind the Pictures
Forty-nine Marines graduated from Platoon 101 on 11 March 1970. Thirty-three of these were originals in the platoon when it was formed on 14 January 1970. The number of Marines still living today in 2017 is unknown at this time. That information is being researched and will be posted here at some future date. This platoon was a so called specialty platoon meaning that most if not all of the Marines in this unit were not destined for combat duty but other jobs such as supply, band, administration, motor transport, aviation, etc. The number of people dropped in this platoon out of the originals we started with was over fifty. There were eighty-eight original recruits in Platoon 101. As I've said, only thirty-three of that number graduated together. That is rare that any Marine graduates with his original platoon. Not in 1970 at least. Most are set back for failing various aspects of training and have to graduate with another platoon. But that's how it works at Parris Island.
The Teenage Killers
That's what S/Sgt. Vialpando, our Senior DI, called us. I'm not sure that's what we actually were, but that's what we were told we were.
Forty-nine Marines graduated from Platoon 101 on 11 March 1970. Thirty-three of these were originals in the platoon when it was formed on 14 January 1970. The number of Marines still living today in 2017 is unknown at this time. That information is being researched and will be posted here at some future date. This platoon was a so called specialty platoon meaning that most if not all of the Marines in this unit were not destined for combat duty but other jobs such as supply, band, administration, motor transport, aviation, etc. The number of people dropped in this platoon out of the originals we started with was over fifty. There were eighty-eight original recruits in Platoon 101. As I've said, only thirty-three of that number graduated together. That is rare that any Marine graduates with his original platoon. Not in 1970 at least. Most are set back for failing various aspects of training and have to graduate with another platoon. But that's how it works at Parris Island.
The Teenage Killers
That's what S/Sgt. Vialpando, our Senior DI, called us. I'm not sure that's what we actually were, but that's what we were told we were.