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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) proudly bears the name of U.S. Marine Private First Class Oscar P. Austin, who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for heroism during the Vietnam War in February 1969.
Austin was born 15 January 1948, in Nacogdoches, Texas. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and graduated from Phoenix Union High School in 1967. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in April 1968, and upon graduation from basic infantry training was promoted to private first class on 1 October 1968. Later that month, he was transferred to the Republic of Vietnam where he served as an ammunitions man with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Division.
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