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Marc began his Naval career when he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy in June 1968. He was designated a Naval Aviator in July 1969. During his active duty career, he made deployments to Vietnam, the Mediterranean as well as to the Persian Gulf, Norwegian and Black Seas. He is a combat veteran of Vietnam and Desert Shield/Storm and flew helicopters on combat search and rescue, special operations missions, anti-submarine warfare and logistics support missions.
During his career, Marc worked with the armed forces of Australia, Canada, Japan, Thailand, Republic of Korea, the Philippines and the U.K. In 1991, he was recalled for Desert Shield and Desert Storm and during that conflict, was responsibility for the operational tasking and employment of 140 helicopters from 14 nations as well as special operations forces assigned to the Persian Gulf Battle Force.

The Second Five of the First 13 Frigates
The thinking of the members of the Marine Committee of the Continental Congress was that by arming our frigates with 12-pounders, they would have a firepower advantage over one armed with 9-pounders. And, by designing them to have excellent sailing qualities as well as being fast, they could run from larger, more heavily armed frigates and ships-of-the-line.

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In December 1972 LT Mike "Schu" Schuster flew a missioin in an A-6A over North Vietnam. Read the aritcle published in the Intruder Association Windscreen in September 2018
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