Upon completion of The Basic School at Quantico, Virginia in March 1960, he assigned as a Platoon Commander in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, which transplaced to the Western Pacific as the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines.
He served as Special Services Noncommissioned Officer, Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines and later, as a platoon guide and platoon sergeant with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines.
Royal Marines | Battalion | 9th United States Congress | Marines | battalion | Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | Captain (British Army and Royal Marines) | 9th | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | 2nd United States Congress | Michigan's 2nd congressional district | 2nd | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | 9th parallel north | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | 1st Battalion 8th Marines | Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington | 9th arrondissement of Paris | 9th arrondissement of Marseille | 1st Battalion 9th Marines | Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild | Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey | Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | 3rd Battalion | William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington |
Sergeant Major Jose Luis Santiago, who has the distinction of being the 2nd Battalion 9th Marines first Hispanic Sergeant Major and its first Sergeant Major since its reactivation on July 13, 2007.