Combat· Korean War
Outpost Frisco
Outpost Frisco was one of the forward positions in the 7th Marines sector, sited on commanding ground north of the neighboring outpost Detroit, and it was caught up in the heavy autumn 1952 fighting when the Chinese moved to seize the line of outposts screening the Marine front.
As the enemy attacked the cluster of forward positions in this sector, Frisco was probed and assaulted along with its sister outposts, and the Marines fought to defend it and to recover ground where the line was pressed back. The contest for Frisco was part of a connected series of outpost actions in which the regiment lost and retook several forward positions over days of fighting, paying a steady cost in casualties for hills that commanded no-man's-land. Holding or yielding Frisco turned on the same hard calculation that governed the whole outpost war: whether an exposed forward position was worth the price of keeping it.
Record no. 889