Marine Security Guard Detachment
US Embassy
Vientiane, Laos

Detachment Photo Album

Please send your photos to history@embassymarine.org




1964


Marine Corps Ball - 10 November 1964

Ambassador Unger and family with Gunny Dear 

Marine Corps Ball 10 November 1964

Richard (Moon) Mullins greeting Laotian couple with traditional Lao "wai".
Marine Corps Ball 10 November 1964

Bob Jenkins welcoming  State Department ccoup[le to the Ball.
MC Ball 1964 Reception Line

(L to R) Bill Hubbard, Erich Zinn, Charlie Sipes, Howard (Buck) Oakley, Johnny Miller, Carl Sanders,
Billy Garrett and Gunny Dear
MC Ball 1964 Reception Line:

(L to R): Zeke Zemaitis, Bill Hubbard, Bob Jenkins, Karl Dauphin, Dorsey Jackson, Ken Logue, Erich Zinn, Richard Davis, Charlie Sipes, Richard (Moon) Mullins, Howard (Buck) Oakley
MC Ball 64 Speech: (L to R): Zeke Zemaitis, Karl Dauphin, Carl Sanders, Ken Logue, Gunny Dear, Billy Garrett, Ambassador Unger, Bob Jenkins and Richard (Moon) Mullins.

Marine Corps Ball - 10 November 1964

Cake cutting ceremony, 

Ambassador Unger and Gunny Dear.


contributed by Ken Logue

JFK Memorial Service 22Nov64
(L to R) Oakley, Dauphin, Mullins, Sanders, Jenkins, Zemaitis, Zinn, Hubbard and Davis (Most of the crew). 

contributed by Ken Logue
Bill Hubbard and our pet gibbon "Zeke" at the Marine House, Vientiane, Laos, Sep64




Photo Submitted By Ken E. Logue (Vientiane 65)

contributed by Ken Logue
Downtown Vientiane, Laos, Sep64. 
Not very many paved roads in Vientiane in 1964


Photo Submitted By Ken E. Logue (Vientiane 65)

contributed by Ken Logue
Typical Laotian house on stilts because the ground would get saturated during the "monsoons".  The Marine House was an old French building that had a concrete floor and brick and stucco walls



Photo Submitted By Ken E. Logue (Vientiane 65)

contributed by Ken Logue
[L to R]: J. Howard Oakley, Kenneth E. Logue, William B. Hubbard Jr and Carl D. Sanders; all four of us were assigned to Vientiane, Laos. 

Photo taken at Travis AFB, CA on 24Aug64 getting ready to board plane for Laos.



Photo Submitted By Ken E. Logue (Vientiane 65)
1965


Laotion Flag

Contributed by J. Howard "Buck" Oakley
Monument on Lan Xang Blvd

 NOTE (from Ken Logue: The scaffolding was up, but I do not remember them working on the monument during my tour. 


Contributed by Kasey Acres

Monument on Lan Xang Blvd -  2007

Note:  
2007 photo, they completed the monument and built  a "Plaza" around it.
 They now call it "The Victory Monument".   The communists added their "Lao People's Revolutionar Party" slogan to the top of it.