Download or read book Baby-Face, Blue-Eyed, Teenage Combat Marines written by J.D. Rogers and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby-Face, Blue-Eyed, Teenage Combat Marines By: J.D. Rogers Baby-Face, Blue-Eyed, Teenage Combat Marines chronicles author J. D. Rogers’s military experience when he was young. In October of 1964, after turning 17 years old, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and trained for nine months in Hawaii as an automatic rifleman before being stationed in Vietnam with the 1st Marine Division, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. He returned home at 19 years old, still not old enough to legally have a beer, but old enough to put his life on the line for his country.