Caption: Lieutenant Colonel John Mader of 1743 Pastoral Road, San Marcos, California officially takes command of the First Engineer Battalion during a ceremony attended by Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Warner, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. This photograph was taken on March 25, 1969, in Vietnam.

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