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#COL Robert
L Ballantyne, USMCR (1961-1965 ) |

Ballantyne |
Nickname: Bob
Branch: USMCR
Commission: PLC 1961
Pre-Flight: OI 07-61
Wings Year: 1962
Active Years: 1961-1965
Reserves: 1965-1992
Mil Retirement: 1989
Last Location: PA |
Assignments:
HMM-264 2d MAW
H&MS-26 HMM0772
MAG-49 MLO CincLantJMU
PPO RAU HQMC
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Highlights:
After flight school, HMM-264, 2dMAW, then H&MS-26. RLD Sep 64 Joined
Reserves HMM 772 at NXX, also served as XO H/3/14, S-2/3 MAG-49, MLO
CincLant JMU, OIC PPO RAU HQMC. Ret 89/with pay 99.
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| — Bob Ballantyne August
27, 2007 |
COL Robert L Ballantyne USMCR 1961-1965
- Enlisted 4 Aug 1958.
- USMC PLC(Avn) commissioning
program, summers of 1959 and 1960. Commissioned Jan 1961 following
graduation from (then) West Chester State Teachers College, PA.
- NATC Flight Training, Pensacola, (finished in helicopters), Feb 61 -
Aug 62.
- HMM-264 and H&MS-26, MAG 26 New River, Sep
62-Sep64
- Entered public school teaching 1964, retired
1994.
- Served in the reserves in various units, 1964-1989.
- (2+ years non-pay inactive while earning M.Ed. in Natural Science,
Univ of Delaware, conferred 1969)
- Reserve billets/units:
SqPilot HMM-772; MAG-49 staff (S-3B, S-2); XO H/3/14; S-2/S-3B 4thDSG;
Marine watch officer in JOC at JMU CinCLant; AsstOIC/OIC RAU at Marine
Command Center, PP&O HQMC; Sr TrngO in MTU at Fort Indiantown Gap,
PA.
- Fleet Aircraft flown: UH-34D, SH-34J, UH-1E, CH-46A;
CH-53A
Retired from the Reserves 1989/ with pay
1999.
— Bob Ballantyne, August 27,
2007