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Historical Profile: L/Cpl Darwin L. Judge

If you have any information related to the incident in which L/Cpl Judge lost his life,
his contributions to our MSG and USMC legacy,
or any personal recollections,
please send a note so that we can might all be able to share his memory.
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L/Cpl Darwin L . Judge

Marine Security Guard Battalion
MSG Detachment
Saigon - 1975

Marshalltown, Iowa

L/Cpl Judge Memorial
Full Military Honors for LCpl Darwin Judge
Funeral Detail conducted by 24th Marines
(from Fall-of-Saigon)

Detachments: Saigon 1975
MOS:
OCCUPATION:
USMC Bio:

Exerpt from : Dreaming of a White Christmas / by Sgt Steve A. Davis

“I stayed up that night, and at around 0200 on the 29^th walked around to check on the Marines at their posts,” said Sgt. Ted Murray, who arrived at the Saigon detachment the previous December. “Almost all of them smiled and asked for some sleep, something that we all needed, but they were Marines – Embassy Marines -- and they knew their job.”

The last MSGs Murray visited were Lance Cpl. Darwin Judge and Cpl. Charles McMahon Jr., who assumed their Post 1 positions at midnight. At approximately 3:30 a.m., a series of randomly-launched rockets began pounding the air base. As Marines poured from their quarters and began to assess the situation, it was discovered that Post 1, the closest position to the main gate, had taken a direct hit. The two MSGs manning this position, Judge and McMahon, had been killed during the attack and subsequently became the last U.S. service members to die as a result of enemy fire on Vietnamese soil (See sidebar.)

Additional Information:
http://www.fallofsaigon.org
http://www.virtualwall.org/dj/JudgeDL01a.htm
http://www.lighthousedistrict.org/Tsm/tsm65.htm
http://www.icwest.com/tc/judge.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~kclocke/judge.html
http://www.homeofheroes.com/myhero/LCPL_Darwin_L_Judge.html
http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/j/j052.htm

Fall of Saigon	e-history; Company-C Roster 1975
Boy Scouts Honor Page	Virtual Wall - L/Cpl Judge
Memories of L/Cpl Judge (Fall of Saigon)

Subject	MEGA Profile
Item Type	Profile
Item Number	HP_MEGA_2003_Rapp
Location of Master	MEGA
Contact	TBD

MSG Detachments