The Fall of Saigon: From Dress Blues to Bayonets

Retired Master Gunnery Sergeant Doug Drummond takes us back to 1975 Saigon, where he served as a young Lance Corporal. Doug shares what it was like to go from standing post in Dress Blue Charlies to wearing flak jackets and fixing bayonets as North Vietnamese forces closed in on the city. He recounts burning classified documents around the clock, screening evacuees as helicopters landed in the embassy parking lot, discovering a pool full of discarded pistols, losing two fellow Marines to a rocket attack, and ultimately being lifted off the embassy rooftop on one of the last helicopters out during Operation Frequent Wind.