Dale Adam Dye (born October 8, 1944) is an American actor, presenter, businessman, and retired U.S. Marine Captain who served in combat during the Vietnam War.
Dye was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Della Grace (née Koehler) and Dale Adam Dye. He graduated from the Missouri Military Academy as an Officer Cadet. Lacking money for college, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps in January 1964 and was sent to Vietnam. He served in Vietnam as...
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Dale Adam Dye (born October 8, 1944) is an American actor, presenter, businessman, and retired U.S. Marine Captain who served in combat during the Vietnam War.
Dye was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Della Grace (née Koehler) and Dale Adam Dye. He graduated from the Missouri Military Academy as an Officer Cadet. Lacking money for college, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps in January 1964 and was sent to Vietnam. He served in Vietnam as a Marine Correspondent from 1964–1965, and from 1967–1970, surviving 31 major combat operations. During the war he received a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for wounds suffered in combat.
He spent thirteen years as an enlisted Marine, rising to the rank of master sergeant. He was chosen to attend Officer Candidate School and was appointed a warrant officer in 1976. He later converted his commission and was made a captain. Dye was well-known in the tight-knit community of the Marine Combat Correspondents in Vietnam. It was fellow Marine...
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