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Last U.S. Marine Corps Tactical Unit in Vietnam is Deactivated

March 14, 1973

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Insignia of U.S. Marine Sub Unit One.

U.S. Marine Sub Unit One, 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (ANGLICO) is formally deactivated, ending eight years of combat support for the South Vietnamese armed forces. Sub Unit One is the last Fleet Marine Force unit to leave Vietnam.1

1Charles D. Melson and Curtis G. Arnold, The War That Would Not End, 1971–1973, U.S. Marines in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, 1991), 206.