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==Military Service==

In [[1942]], Ford's film career was interrupted when he volunteered for duty in [[World War II]] with the [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine Corps]] Reserve on 13 December 1942 as a photographic specialist at the rank of sergeant. He was assigned in March [[1943]] to active duty at the Marine Corps Base in San Diego. He was sent to Marine Corps Schools Detachment (Photographic Section) in Quantico, Virginia, that June, with orders as a motion-picture production technician. Sergeant Ford returned to the San Diego base in February 1944 and was assigned next to the radio section of the Public Relations Office, Headquarters Company, Base Headquarters Battalion. There he staged and broadcast the radio program ''Halls of Montezuma''. Glenn Ford was honorably discharged from the Marines on 7 December 1944.

In 1958, he joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was commissioned as a lieutenant commander with a 1655 designator (public affairs officer). He was awarded a [[Navy Commendation Medal]] for outstanding service during a one month tour of Vietnam while on active duty for training in 1967. In Vietnam, Ford scouted combat locations for a training film entitled ''Global Marine''. His World War II decorations are as follows: [[American Campaign Medal]], [[Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal]], [[World War II Victory Medal]], Rifle Marksman Badge, and the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Medal. He retired from the Naval Reserve in the 1970s at the rank of Captain.<ref>James E. Wise and Anne Collier Rehill, ''Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services'', ISBN 1557509379, 259-264.</ref>