1st Battalion, 1st Marines

Uh, uh, started as an infantry officer.

Did, uh, uh, deployments with 1st Marine Regiment with, uh, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines.

Uh, then assessed, got selected, went to our individual training course, which is now, now known as the Marine Raider course, and, uh, became a Marine Raider officer and, uh, served, served with, uh, uh, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, um, uh, for, for about f- uh, a year, um, before I got hurt.

Uh, s- sort of a, a series of traumatic brain injuries.

It's Operation Medina, triple canopy jungle, southwest of Quang Tri, so thick that the daylight barely reaches the ground.

Marines from Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, are pushing through it.

And moving with them is 20-year-old kid raised in the San Fernando Valley named Corporal William T. Perkins Jr. Perkins isn't carrying a rifle as his primary.

He's carrying a motion picture camera.