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Janice Pontillas,
In your message you stated you interviewed your father. May I ask you, who was your father?
I worked with a Captain Robert G. Pontillas after we got back from Vietnam. I returned from Vietnam in September 1966, and returned to the 3d Marine Division in 1971 on Okinawa. The 3d Marine Division was the Reserve Division for Vietnam. Okinawa was just a hop, skip, and a jump from Vietnam.
I served with Captain Pontillas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the 4th Marine Corps District in the Reserve Branch, and both of us started having symptoms relating to Agent Orange.
Bad health issues still plague many Vietnam Veterans today, and of course the Veterans Administration does some very good lip service, but do not treat appropriately all the veterans of that confounded war in ways that they should. Words are one thing, actions are another. Their lack of actions for all Vietnam Veterans tells the complete story.
Please get back to me regarding Captain Robert G. Pontillas, of California, if he is, or is not related to you.
Thank you,
Sgt Raymond L. Britt, USMC
OAMAAM
In your message you stated you interviewed your father. May I ask you, who was your father?
I worked with a Captain Robert G. Pontillas after we got back from Vietnam. I returned from Vietnam in September 1966, and returned to the 3d Marine Division in 1971 on Okinawa. The 3d Marine Division was the Reserve Division for Vietnam. Okinawa was just a hop, skip, and a jump from Vietnam.
I served with Captain Pontillas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the 4th Marine Corps District in the Reserve Branch, and both of us started having symptoms relating to Agent Orange.
Bad health issues still plague many Vietnam Veterans today, and of course the Veterans Administration does some very good lip service, but do not treat appropriately all the veterans of that confounded war in ways that they should. Words are one thing, actions are another. Their lack of actions for all Vietnam Veterans tells the complete story.
Please get back to me regarding Captain Robert G. Pontillas, of California, if he is, or is not related to you.
Thank you,
Sgt Raymond L. Britt, USMC
OAMAAM