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"Serving in the White House was a tremendous experience, but in terms of what I went
in the Marine Corps for, serving in Somalia was just the best." (Video Interview, 32:56)
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John Kline |
John Kline [2007] | Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Somalia, 1992-1995
Marine Corps
31st Marine Aviation Operation; HMX-1 (Marine Helicopter Squadron); HMH-362 (Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron); MAG-16 (Marine Aircraft Group)
Quantico, Virginia; Fort Wolters, Texas; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Da Nang, Vietnam; Hawaii; Washington, DC; Okinawa, Japan; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Carlyle and Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania; Pentagon, Virginia; also: Mogadishu, Somalia; Quantico, Virginia
Colonel; Colonel
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John Kline's 25 years in the Marine Corps took him to Vietnam, where late in that war he
swept mines from a helicopter; the White House, where he served in the Marine
Helicopter Squadron 1 under Presidents Ford and Carter and as the Marine Corps Aide to
Carter and Reagan; and to Somalia, where in the early days of the 1992 U.S. intervention,
he served as aviation commander, in charge of 2000 men. Kline was elected to represent
Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District in 2002; as of 2009, he was still serving.
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