Dixie Station Vietnam Veteran Cap COTTON 12th Marines established a firebase

12th Marines established a firebase there while the 1st Battalion

who in December 1962 became the first aviator assigned to the 81st Transportation Company to be killed in action

Three years earlier

5- kilometer-wide flat bottomland covered with tall elephant grass

[9] As of 31 July 1970

Dixie Station Vietnam Veteran Cap COTTON 12th Marines established a firebaseDixie Station was a geographic position during the Vietnam War in the South China Sea off the Mekong Delta from which United States Navy aircraft carriers launched strikes providing close air support for American and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) ground troops in South Vietnam.