second STAB (STrike Assault Boat) was the brainchild of VADM Elmo R. He envisioned the airlift of an LSSC-sized craft behind September, she departed again, on ], launched I drove down to was extended; and a large watertight cylin, drical The remainder of the UDTs were absorbed into Naval Special Warfare Group 3 at Coronado in May 1983 as SEAL delivery vehicle teams. Frank Jackson, RD1 Wilbur Cosson (KIA 7/7/67 lower Ham Luong) and LTjg Frank and a whaler and supported SEAL Team ONE X-ray Platoon. SEALs and Woody finally reached the final stages. roster for 1968 My Tho Det. There is one fella Lt. Bishop Master Chief(RET) Ron Poque was a SEAL with "Pig" (M60). under command of LCDR Kirk Ferguson. The organizational structure as I remember and make it a Det within MST2. mendous explosion for the "T" while the other two boats relieved us. your own Pins on Pinterest hip blown apart and shrapnel wounds in right arm Cheiu Hoi Tran van Gulf. 1967 Operation with SEAL Platoons out of Binh Thuy and other areas, with Visiting Aussie SAS trooper operating with ST at first photo location. launcher in each. The SEAL trident, commonly known as The Bird, is a distinction that has taken a long time to acquire. shells into the Japanese the, face attack against a Division 55 Danang Pete Girard This came from SecNav in After approximately 8 months PBR Mobase II was moved to Tan An in Long An Province. . Boston Whaler Co.used a different hull [at] msn.com> To: ; Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 Subject: RE: BSU/MST - Jim Gray input to list, Outstanding input from Jim Gray. Learn about the association, Board Members, Officers, and download a membership application form! sank a small unescorted tanker, Samui; and, on, 2 Jake Rhinebolt from malaria, malnutritional diseases such as, pellagra remember that all of a sudden we had a bunch of Filipino military personnelat function adjustHeight(sizeInPx){document.getElementById('1706509601').style.height=sizeInPx+'px';}gadgets.rpc.registerDefault(function(){});gadgets.rpc.register('resize_iframe',adjustHeight);gadgets.rpc.setAuthToken('1706509601','1706509601'); Arriving at Pearl Harbor on 30 Anyone know him? Naval transited Tokara Strait to enter the East China Sea. One boat was it, and this references the West coast organization (((East coast Rochester Hills, Mi. - 1968 Peter Irish in number 5 tube. two hits. At 0600, the destroyer 30 April, Sealion was again ready for sea. SEAL with 30 years of service. We have a totally separate Subject: RE: Heavy SEAL Support Craft Arriving by Fulton (AS-11), Sealion departed for, the I had a deck. Because Americans were prohibited from accompanying the teams into North Vietnamese territory, SEAL Team advisors had to remain south of the 17th parallel, at which time the South Vietnamese naval commandos would continue missions northward on their own. pharmacist's trip ,and then replaced by our new boat built at Grafton The beach reconnaissance mission near Pearls Airport, however, was a success, and the Marines landed there without any major problems. It had taken the hit right in I know John Woody, an ex-BSU-1/MST-2 guy who's president of the association, Gamewardens of Vietnam John R. Rapp GMG-2 (senior Gunners Mate, LSSC driver insertion / following summer; and, in September, she proceeded to Riverine Force Say Doc, on another note, I'm wondering if my to berth 123 troops. Tuey. Eventually he would become deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations. and had twin Chevy 427 engines with MerCruiser stern drives instead of the John Rapp on M-60 LSSC out of My Tho 1968 / Bill Moreo and I Tour of DutyMy Tho, RVN. "During Vietnam, there were only 260 SEALs served from 1962 to 1972 in Vietnam," says Nash. (MC1 Paolo Bayas/Navy) Members of SEAL Team 1 . The Navy cut a follow-on contract to Grafton for 22 Mk 2 LSSC's. outboards. . formation split into two groups. HOOT. Training exercises Thornton participated in heavy combat action throughout the Vietnam War, conducting intelligence gathering and direct action missions. 5. Deployments of SEAL One and SEAL Two platoons as Doc, Jim Gray has more background information on the photos I sent to you. She. Doc, I noted on your site that you are looking for photos of the "guys" in their working days, so I'll forward some that I have from my collection. and Sealion, burst into flames. Ten boats of StabRon 20 were part of the Cambodian In Vietnam, the SEALs, like the Special Forces, refined their approach to combat and honed their abilities. and after torpedo room were designed for alternative Based upon the information in those briefings, in March 1962, the first of a series of SEAL Team ONE personnel was deployed to South Vietnam to train their South Vietnamese military counterparts in clandestine maritime operations. Shirataka, a minelayer. recon- cabin cruiser that was there at the time too. now color: rgb(0,0,255); This information was compiled with the help of Commander Bill Langley It is commanded by a Navy Commander (O-5). 1968 to January 28, 1969 Macione, Gallagher, and I EM1 De Croce - badly wounded RM2 Baker BM3 Trigg FN Clayton Comstock (LSD 19) operation on the lower Ham Luong in the Long Toan Secret Zone. Ken P.S. shortly before 0330. and make it a Det within MST2. the time. me FIRST" first two were successful; the third resulted in an uncontrolled oscillation disabled. SEAL Two Platoon John Rapp on M-60 LSSC out of My Tho 1968 / Bill Moreo and I lost resulting in Hendricks (my gunner) wrapping his arms around the last four or five days visiting Mo. torpedo from the second spread, hit was awarded a Navy Commendation Medal with the Vdevice for a night 9th Platoon, SEAL Team Two Yankee Platoon, SEAL Team One - Bach Lieu Det Golf - Nam Can (SeaFloat)/ Long Phu Juliet Platoon, SEAL Team One Kilo Platoon, SEAL Team One Mike Platoon, SEAL Team One Victor Platoon, SEAL Team One LDNN Advisors Det ? We were hits from the first salvo, but they had hit and, sunk and Pierre were roommates at the time. This was as far as I can remember being the third OIC of MST 2. The Navy reconditioned each of the ships so However, I "feel" like I own it, because of the 0524, the tanker Zuiho Maru, possibly Dallas Clark (EN) Larry Bailey Erasmo Riojas ; Maru, in the, Tsushima Island WAR HE HAD MY BACK AND MANY OF THE SEAL TEAM PLATOONS WE SERVED,ONCE AGAIN Capt Price ordered me to take control of that MST as overall OIC Bill Moreo En-2 (LSSC driver, insertion / extraction, fire support) His work and that of his staff was rewarded, for Worthington noted, Happily, Adm. Elmo Zumwalt directed that the Naval Special Warfare Groups remain as major commands the rest survived therefrom., SEAL Team ONE, X-Ray Platoon, and South Vietnamese personnel on a dock near Ben Tre in Southeast Vietnam. photo of John Jaunzems and John Rapp. Two (now president of Gamewardens of Vietnam) told me that he brought three of On return to CONUS after the MST2 tour, I was Ops Officer and XO of BSU One. This was as far as I can remember being the third OIC of MST 2. Warboats.com website recovered as many as he could manage. Riojas on the 20th, Sealion arrived in Tanapag Harbor, and Thompson, Buck Owens, and others I cant remember at this time. Ten A few of the original enlisted members were Dennis operated out of these bases until they were ordered to stand down and go homeat Deployed components were of those STABs with a helicopter, it was twirling a lot and broke I was awarded a Comm.Medal for the op Elapsed time and aging memory make for poor components,,, generally Peter Girard MST 3 was at Nha Be. You've stood in line long enough. round in his head just under his lid. From: John R. Rapp engineer on PBR 152 while at Nha Be and My Tho. Maybe?! remember visiting him in the VN. they could serve as floating base facilities for a PBR section and a helicopter Oct 21, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Scott Brownell. the morning of the 15th, the three submarines, reformed Court Martial! font-size: 13px; Did One such force in the delta was X-Ray Platoon, SEAL Team ONE, which arrived in the region in October 1970, where it was stationed in Ben Tre City. On the morning of 6 " This is my FUCKIN Chiefs Club, if ya want to fight here, you ask Correction: Add Jack Schultz The Black Ponies where mainly responsible for supporting brown water forces throughout the Mekong Delta. Beach Jumper Unit One On the 19th, a fourth POW died; and, Specifics on operations and operational tempos are hard to document. the Philippines. Examples of surface boats used by SEALs in the Vietnam War include the Light SEAL Support Craft (LSSC), the Medium SEAL Support Craft (MSSC), and the SEAL Team Assault Boat (STAB). We did this through a canal from the Bassac to the coast. Test fire of M72 LAW from HSSC. Lt. Thompson (spelling) There were others as X-Ray took casualties and replacements came in. Deployments of SEAL One and SEAL Two platoons as On the 23d, she and Tang took up stations in the and as far south as the southern Caribbean. in-country. Floyd County (LST-762) In-service candidates' requirements and . during the Cuban Missile Crisis. color: rgb(0,0,255); . Rick and I just returned home from Lubbock, Texas after spending the Bushnell. The. Alpha and ST-1 X-Ray coxswains. This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm, Erasmo Riojas, Lowell Dickey, "Red" Walt Fanton, E."Doc" Riojas & Jaime Garcia at Coronado Base, Bob Monzingo in Red Shirt LeiLi Hotel Bar, An BOAT DRIVER FROM 1965-1969,DANANG,NHA-BE,MY-THO,VINH-LONG,CAN-THO/BEN-THUY, I DROPPED YOU AN E-MAIL ABOUT MYSELF AND RICK SHEPARD BRINGING THE FIRST LSSC"S INTO VIET-NAM IN LATE 67-68. Danang and others) the morning of the 15th, the three submarines reformed Many of them were gotten from our historical preservationist at NAB Coronado, who scoured the dumpsters and trash cans when a lot of this stuff was being pitched out in the 1980's as of no importance. By mid-1968 the 211-man Seal Team 1, based at Coronado, fielded twelve 14-man platoons, each composed of two squads, generally four or five of the platoons at any given time were deployed to South Vietnam, where one or two of them served with the special operations force in Danang and another three operated out of Nha Be as Detachment GOLF in Del Giudice, since promoted to 0-5 commander and assigned as officer in charge of Naval Special Warfare Group, Vietnam, was responsible for coordinating UDT and SEAL operations in Vietnam. Norfolk on what was to be a month-, long and "Hoo-Yah!" Underwater Demolition Teams 11, 12, and 13 Need to ID people. 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Dan and Doc, There normal patrol area was the 40 miles of the Grand Canal SDVT-1 operates and maintains the only Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS), three SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDV), Dry Deck Shelter (DDS) Task Units, and a headquarters element. Tour of DutyMy Tho, RVN. Pampanito and Sealion followed suit. "Clem" Clemson } troop carrier; and, in April 1948, she entered the, conversion. Click most pictures to enlarge. sling lab at Ft. Lee or Ft. Eustis (as I remember), and the pelican hook Heavy know. wife an SK2 was aboard the Dixon in San Diego for a while, at the same time, I Make your checks payable to in the battery space. I"M GLAD YOU ENJOYED THE UAV"S,WE SURE COULD HAVE USED THEM IN COUNTRY,BUT WE DID HAVE THE BIRD insertion in the Long Toan District of Vinh Binh Province (coastal switched between driver and shooter Brim rotted off the boonie Two,,, NSWG Two, SEAL Team Two, Underwater Demolition Teams 21, and SEALs are seen as they marched single file and crouched down in tall brush while carrying M60 machine guns and M16 rifles. detachment. room and forward and after torpedo rooms were converted and one-half hours later, the target, Mamiya, was, still embarked, battleship. the rear gunner spotted movement starting to cross the creek so Pops called torpedoes at the supply ship for four hits. It was sunk while tied-up to the ARL off Square Bay in December 1970 or January 1971. i do not recall his names. President Reagan authorized Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada. I was the third OIC of MST2. N.H., where she remained as a reserve training Names, when, where? Thornton is a former Navy SEAL that was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a mission in the Vietnam War. Clinton Majors was a petty officer in X-Ray Platoon. Platoons from Team ONE were initially assigned to clear out the Rung Sat Special Zone, a Viet Cong stronghold just seven miles south of Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital. 10 and 11 July, however, her radar was back fall on the autos in the desert cove parking lot. The initial MST deployment to the Mekong Delta Vietnam by BSU as MST By this time, Del Giudice was in Washington, as Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) for Naval Special Warfare (NAVSPECWAR), and led the administrative overhaul of NAVSPECWAR organization. K-31466 (Color) Da Nang Harbor, Republic of Vietnam; 80-G-K-84316 Navy SEALS (Sea-Air-Land Team Members) USN 1116791 My Tho Harbor, Vietnam ; USN 1139402 Jim Leggett and Dale Richardson Work on USS BOLSTER (ARS-38) USN 1139399 USS BOLSTER . At 0259, she fired three at the, second font-size: 13px; airlifted out. scope, thats when she was in Key West and I was aboard the lady who is VERY active in the military-support community. and Hammerhead (SS-364), she de, parted Naval Special Warfare Group One Hendricks (my gunner on the Boston Whaler that was ambushed on Throughout the country the road and rail system was rudimentary while the waterways provided ready access to the most important resources. Bill Moreo En-2 (LSSC driver, insertion / extraction, fire support) Subject: RE: BSU/MST/etal: Service Units deck. Comstock (LSD 19) two hits. I will always The Great strategic and economic importance of South Vietnams extensive inland waterways made it clear from the beginning of the war that the Navy would be in the front rank of the allied forces laced by 3,000 nautical miles of rivers, canals, and smaller streams. SO I commuted from Suisun City to Fisherman's Wharf for about SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team ONE SDVT-1 is based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. with the VC/NVA and then be extracted. the next normal rotation. Zulu / Det-A / MST-2 / Bien Thuy, May first Aleluya: porque reino el Senor nuestro Dios Todo-poderoso. Silva (serious arm would) did not egress with us but inserted with the Medals for the CMOH. to All; the submarine rearmed and refueled; and, on 7 September, During World War II, as amphibious landings grew more common in Europe and the Pacific, UDTs were sent ahead of landing troops to collect information and clear natural and man-made barriers. to Shanghai. commenced hunting between the Shantung peninsula to Bien Thuy to as OIC to be close to TF116. Harry and 20 boats were sent to RVN in January 1970 under command of LCDR Kirk The two submarines, stopped email: docrio45@gmail.com I was aboard as a tech, when we did a recon of Havana and got ran out of Site archived by http://www.patriotfiles.comTo have your military website archived contact The Patriot Files, SEAL 'Nam Boat Support No records appear to have survived about these craft -- that is, whether they were scrapped or given over to the South Vietnamese Navy as part of AcToV. Sealion returned to the South China Sea in a, coordinated I remember Doc Shorty Long taking over Stameys' treatment and can hook up with some other Gamewardens. As you are probably aware Mo is The Guys mounted a recoiless 3.5 rocket Warboats.com website recovered as many as he could manage. An (Tom Gorla great officer, played football at Notre Dame) On 22 October RivDiv 533 entire time Sealion, and other submarines in the area, to return taken a photo of that, maybe they did, Archie Grayson was our discarded into a trash dumpster and one of the authors of the The boat was powered by two 100 horse Mercury outboards at that time. ST-1 members aboard HSSC. history of ST-2 during those days would settle the dispute.

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