God Bless Retired Police Officer John Ghilain for his Service in Vietnam

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One of last ones out recalls frantic escape from Vietnam

As Marine, Medford man aided exodus from Saigon in 1975

 

MALDEN — The war had been over for nearly two years, or so he thought, when his superiors told him his next mission would be to serve as a security guard at the US Embassy in Saigon.

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So it came as something of a shock to John Ghilain, a beefy 19-year-old corporal from Medford, when he and some fellow Marines were brought into a bug-proof inner chamber of the embassy for a CIA briefing. It was late February 1975, and the North Vietnamese Army was massing on the outskirts of the capital of South Vietnam.

“They’re heading this way,’’ Ghilain recalled the local CIA chief, Frank Snepp, telling the men. “We don’t know how long they’re going to be, but we know they’re coming.’’

http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/05/28/one_of_last_ones_out_recalls__frantic_escape_from_vietnam/ 

 

 

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