1st MAW Marines from Marine Attack Squadron-311 built a swing set for Vietnamese elementary school children in Long Bien near Chu Lai Marine Air Base during the Vietnam War. Staff Sergeant Orville A. Matott, 31, and Lieutenant George E. Tallmage, 33, swing with two excited local children in this photograph.

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