Mark Stitzel:

The pictures are of the 1/7 corpsmen circa 1966.  The picture was taken on hill 55 on the Battalion side of the hill.  It's unusual that we would all be together like that.  It may have been when we moved from Chu Lai to DaNang.

May 1967, Saga Magazine

 
“They were a legend in WWII and Korea, and today, in Vietnam, their “colors” – a skull and crossbones – are again being carried into battle.  That’s C Company, 1^st Battalion, 7^th Marines – the most colorful, profane, and best damned fighting outfit in the Corps.”

 
This is the story of a company of U.S. Marines who bear a proud tradition whose beginnings have been lost in time.  These men of Charlie Company, 1^st Battalion, 7^th Marines cannot be stopped by the enemy in Vietnam – just as their predecessors who served in “C” company 1/7 in two previous wars, proved that nobody can stand up to the doughty Leathernecks of the unique company of men known throughout the Corps as the troops of “Suicide Charley”  - The Editor