Baltazar Martinez

Baltazar Martinez was born in Plainview, Texas, in 1952. He was one of the last people to be drafted into the Army in 1972. He trained as an armored cavalryman and was deployed to Vietnam toward the end of the year, but stayed only a few days before being sent home. He re-enlisted twice, and served in Korea and in different bases in the US until 1981. He subsequently served in the Marine Corps for three years, and then later joined the Army National Guard, and deployed to Kuwait, and Iraq in 2010. At the time of the interview in 2014, he was still serving with the 507th Engineer Battalion, but did not deploy with them to Afghanistan in 2011 due to his age.

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Thank you Sir for your service. 🦅. very interesting detailed career.👍👍👍👍👍, I was in Tank school 1976 USMC.