<p>"Rough Going: Private First Class R. L. Sandy, a rifleman with the 2d Battalion, 26th Marines [2/26] finds that going down a hill can be just as rough as climbing it during Operation Bold Mariner.  The Leathernecks teamed up with infantrymen of the Americal Division and Army of the Republic of Vietnam’s 2d Infantry Division in the multi-battalion cordon-and-sweep operation designed to reduce the Viet Cong’s military and political grip on the Batangan Peninsula south of Chu Lai (official USMC photo by Corporal D. Kramer)."
</p><p>From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives &amp; Special Collections
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OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usmcarchives/14731720679/">PFC R.L. Sandy, Operation Bold Mariner, 1969</a>