{"id":19141,"date":"2011-10-21T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T21:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=19141"},"modified":"2011-10-21T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T21:10:36","slug":"236th-marine-corps-birthday-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2011\/10\/21\/236th-marine-corps-birthday-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"236th Marine Corps Birthday Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGuest Speaker – Dale Dye<\/p>\n

236th Marine Corps Birthday Ball<\/strong><\/p>\n

What:<\/strong> 236th Annual Marine Corps Birthday Ball
\nWhen:<\/strong> November 10, 2011
\nLocation:<\/strong> Branson Convention Center (Hilton)
\nCost:<\/strong> $60 per person
\nAttire:<\/strong> Semi-formal
\nSpeaker:<\/strong> Dale A. Dye
\nFor reservations or information call: (800) 569-3493<\/strong><\/p>\n

After joining the Marine Corps at 18, Dale Dye served in Vietnam in 1965 and 1967 through 1970 surviving 31 major combat operations. He emerged from Southeast Asia highly decorated including three Purple Hearts for wounds suffered in combat. He spent 13 years as an enlisted Marine, rising to the rank of Master Sergeant before he was chosen to attend Officer Candidate School. Appointed a Warrant Officer in 1976, he later converted his commission and was a Captain when he was sent to Beirut with the Multinational Peacekeeping Force in 1982-83. He served in a variety of assignments around the world and along the way managed to graduate with a B.A. in English from the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n

He worked for a year at \u201cSoldier of Fortune\u201d Magazine when he finally decided to retire from the Marine Corps in 1984. He spent time in Central America, reporting and training troops in guerrilla warfare techniques in both El Salvador and Nicaragua before leaving the magazine in 1985 and heading for Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Starting with the Academy Award-winning Platoon, Dye has matched his mission with Hollywood\u2019s need to look smart. His specialty is training. By putting actors through a week or more of military-like drills\u2014as he did for Steven Spielberg\u2019s Saving Private Ryan and Tom Hanks\u2019s Band of Brothers, and most recently in the new HBO maxi-series The Pacific, \u2013he makes them convincing soldiers and better actors. He has worked on more than fifty movies and television shows. He\u2019s also a well-known actor, and can be seen in TNT\u2019s Falling Skies.<\/p>\n

He is also an accomplished author, having written six novels including the best-selling novelization of Platoon. His latest book is the gripping Peleliu File, companion to his earlier Laos File. He and his wife Julia also co-wrote the graphic novel Code Word: Geronimo.<\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, USA (Ret.), best-selling author of \u2018On Killing\u2019 and \u2018On Combat,\u2019 said \u201cCapt. Dale Dye has done more than any other man alive to influence the way that America (and the rest of the world) views the U.S. military.\u201d<\/p>\n

For reservations or information call: (800) 569-3493<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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