Remembering Gunnery Sergeant Michael Tyrone Nixon. Nixon was a Staff Sergeant serving with Alpha Company 1st Battalion 6th Marines on the USS Guam in January 1977. He was on the LCM-8 when it was struck by the freighter and capsized.
Nixon survived the accident and continued to pursue his career in the Marine Corps, promoting to Gunnery Sergeant, before his death eight years later on January 19, 1985, in an automobile accident.
The son of Frank and Mamie Ruth Nixon, Michael was born August 14, 1950, in Washington DC. He joined the Marine Corps in 1969 and was stationed at Quantico, VA at the time of his death. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
LCM-6 Accident - Barcelona, Spain - 17 January 1977 