My face is red. I'm off by a couple months. Ogden deployments to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Specifically, she deployed twice in 1966, from February 8 to April 4 and from May 16 to July 7, bringing Marines and their equipment to the conflict. By that time the war was in full bloody conflict, especially around the DMZ. So maybe the pics referenced WERE indeed photo ops. My bad. What is undisputable: a lot of healthy young 18 year olds returned to the Ogden in body bags.