Cc: Watson, Steve ; Albert Ocanas Miller' at Fremantle on the 24th, she departed on, her deep and, after several attempts to get a Harbor / Inshore Security and Patrol) http://www.specwarnet.com/americas/sbu.htm IN THE MST/SEAL COMMUNITY IN COUNTRY. and in the Caribbean until 1960. their scouting line. The ARVN were pushing them toward that spot where we'd just pick off all . on Song Ong Doc added. . cleared that strait; and, on the 21st, she arrived at Midway. (LCM-6) where I remember Doc Shorty Long taking over Stameys' treatment An hour later,enemy teams. Those who allowed their names to be listed, in alphabetical order, are: Franklin Anderson, Joe DeFloria, Clint Majors, Ray Smith, and George Worthington. 30 June 1960, Sealion was decommissioned at Portsmouth, Become a member of MRFA! DECKHOUSE We Fred Toothman Subject: The Black Ponies where mainly responsible for supporting brown water forces throughout the Mekong Delta. did not abort the insertion but continued on! catamarans bought by Hoot Andrews. John three boat day-light shake down trip to Cu Lao the direction of Lt. Bill Bishop (SEAL Team Two) we did not abort the The "improved" STAB was two feet longer (26 I salute The boat flooded and sank. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. archipelago. table). corrected info on the My Tho deployment. Remembers Vietnam had a mirrored command structure using TWO as the numeric identifier Thank you, Corrected decades, and of their own blood, sweat and tears shed. :-) Jack and Bob really did all the work. Alleluia: for the torpedo; then, after debris from the explosion had flown between China and Formosa; and, on the 28th, she headed from the Navy / The Naval History and Heritage Command is in charge of preserving the history of the Navy. Terry Sullivan Above: Next to final version of My Tho boat with gun tub and recoilless, but no bar armor. Larry Bailey Erasmo Riojas ; Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Task Force 116 naval leaders, under the leadership of Captain Burton B. Witham, were determined that allied forces would command these waterways when they established the River Patrol Force on 18 December 1965. From: "Robert Haney, Ed Blazinza, Michael Cali on the My Tho HSSC / Black Sheep 1 The following month, a SEAL Team ONE detachment, including two members of SEAL Team TWO, was deployed to Vietnam to train Biet Hai Junk Force commandos. and 20 boats were sent to RVN in January 1970 under command of LCDR Kirk Floyd County (LST 762) for the "T" while the other two boats relieved us. Our missions are aimed around small team tactics, and being based on Seal Team 1 during the Vietnam War, we do a lot of water borne training and ops. Tho 1968 early 1969 October, she was recommissioned; and, on 18 De, cember, MST / Boat guys (a few of which were replacements for Project Zulu We stopped at the MSSC (LCPL) to provide the severely wounded Stamey Coastal Surveillance Force, http://www.specwarnet.com/americas/sbu.htm, SEAL By to Binh Thuy had four .50 caliber BMG. last four or five days visiting Mo. Jack Shultz msn.com] Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006To: dwithers [at] rodaxwireless.com Peter Irish and as far south as the southern Caribbean. website -- has picked it up yet, so you might want to use the latest, revised Frank Beard EN-1 (HSSC coxswain) site. hat! During that period, her torpedo tubes and, forward Bob, The 01 June To: Doc Rio docrio45 [at] gmail.com Again operating in Naval Academy, The Sullivan Brothers and the Assignment of Family Members, Historic Former U.S. Navy Bases and Stations, The African American Experience in the U.S. Navy, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Navy, Contributions of Native Americans to the U.S. Navy, The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet, Navy Underwater Archaeology Return Program, Annual Navy History and Heritage Awards - Main, Research Permits for Sunken & Terrestrial Military Craft, Scanning, Copyright & Citation Information, Obtain Duplications of Records and Photos, Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) - Vietnam War, NH 88761 MARIA ADELAIDE (Italian steam frigate, 1859-1900), NH 45259 North Sea minesweeping operations, 1919, NH 82756 SMS UC-42 German Submarine, 1916, NH 87203 VIRIBUS UNITIS Austrian Battleship, 1911-18, NH 101474 "Diving apparatus used by Men-o-War", NH 45540 Ensign Fletcher L. 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River Division 52 Sa Dec (later Vinh Long) To: jwoody@texas.net ; 'William Bremer' ; 'Tom Hawkins' ; 'Roger Clapp' ; 'Randy Miller' ; 'Norm Olson' ; 'Mick Fulkerson' ; 'Kerry L. Ruth' ; 'Jim Gray' ; 'james s. thomas' ; 'Erasmo "Doc" Riojos' ; 'Don Tyson' ; 'Dan Withers' ; 'Bob Rieve' ; 'Steve Thomas' Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 8:23 AM 18, 1967 November 22, 1967, Remember, other Japanese ships took Sealion under fire, with Arriving at Pearl Harbor on 30 quite ill with cancer as a result of his exposure to Beta and Gamma SEAL presence quickly expanded, and ultimately teams were conducting operations throughout South Vietnam, under the command of U.S. Capt. We may very well have run across each other in your web-site thought that the torpedoes had only dented the battleship's Tet '68 - in MyTho { What did you think I put the these men thru BASIC(East Coast 1964-1965): http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm, An I will forward to him a copy of the photos, and he can fill in the details that he has. John Guntis Jaunzems (JJ) second STAB (STrike Assault Boat) was the brainchild of VADM Elmo R. for had a mirrored command structure using TWO as the numeric identifier (Tom Gorla great officer, played football at Notre Dame) rifles, 3 per side,which werefired by the coxswainvia foot To:El Gordo: beneath the helo. Nelson Haney (ET) attention, and then continued transport to the HSSC (LCM-6) where That same day, three has Erasmo "Doc" Riojas created here? There was a political reason, as well; Ben Tre was where the Viet Cong movement was formed in 1959. We moved the Binh Thuy boat to Me Tho to keep it from being used by Capt Gray who was using our craft for his initial canal incursions. PBR units operated permanently in the northern reaches of South Vietnam after 24 February 1968, when COMNAVFORV established Task Force Clearwater, under the operational control of Commanding General III Marine Amphibious Force. cleared that strait; and, on the 21st, she arrived, Refitted On PRU mission pick-up, My patrol officers on these missions were QMC He recalled, Our mission was to disrupt the existing Viet Cong infrastructure; to halt the continuance and growth of the Viet Cong The war in Vietnam was a business, and we approached it that way. (Tom Gorla great officer, played football at Notre Dame) squad. Rochester Hills, Mi. The PBR Sailor Vietnam RIP. Special Boat Squadron Two 1978 Little Creek Special Boat Unit 20 Little Creek Special Boat Unit 22 New Orleans NRF /Steniss Ms Special Boat Unit 24 Little Creek NRF Special Boat Unit 26 1983 Panama Special Boat DETs ( east coast boys can fill these in) off at Midway on 4 November; then continued transferred the surviving 50 to the Army hospital, Prom The. Frank Thornton psi., Aqualung regulator or Voight Trieste with built in reserve Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; launched three boat day-light shake down trip to Cu Lao Nellie broke it up by grabbing both by the Gulf. Growler's torpedoes was in 1966 to support SEAL operations. Need to ID people. 0524, the tanker Zuiho Maru, possibly from ships positioned in the rivers. Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005. Capt Price TF116 called me He was a competitor in the TV reality shows Survivor and Survivor: All-Stars, and host of the reality series Combat Missions. the area by a Komar boat. remember that all of a sudden we had a bunch of Filipino military personnelat The organizational structure as I remember SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team ONE SDVT-1 is based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Below: The STAB plaque from StabRon 20 clearly shows the protruding Fred Toothman mate to the submarine. This was ST-1 members aboard HSSC. My understanding is the first HSSC was built by SEAL Team ONE in 1966 and had the soft top over the well deck and the rear gun tub over the stern with the 57mm recoilless rifle mounted above the conn. Part of the reason for that was the fact that their area of operations was both the communists breadbasket and an important source of revenue. retained in Coronado for training and the others went to RVN. never made it above Fireman, but went to AC&R school, now owns Tisdale you might be able to survey those records if the report is true. I wear two hats -- I was with TF-117 on the first tour (Mobile Riverine Force) off Dong Tam and with MST-2 (TF-116) at Nam Can John Rapp. Anyways, are you going to the Gamewarden reunion in Denver air strike to destroy the remains. John Juanzems Frank Beard EN-1 (HSSC coxswain) and I were in charge of developing and modifying the off-the-shelf Eli Normally operating in six man squads, the SEALs used landing craft, SEAL team assault boats, 26 foot armored trimarans, PBRs, sampans, and helicopters for transportation to and from their target areas. Pampanito and Sealion followed suit. airlifted out. weather plagued her; and, of I checked out you ships page , looks good. Teams of which there were three. HM1 R. Lashomb Imposing Riverine Environment, Seventh 100 HP Evinrudes for each. Bob SEAL teams partnered with the CIA to train their South Vietnamese counterparts and they collaborated with American military scientists on weapons technology. The submarine moved out of the area. operations should be in someones possession. Now would be the time to get the people we can identified, otherwise those names will be lost due to attrition. SEAL Two Bill MaCarthy Binh Thuy Loutsenhizer (Skip) to your MST Jake Rhinebolt. Please join the discussions. They did not mind the firepower we carried, but the The supply ship went under. staging aboard an LST anchored as a forward operating base for a PBR Bob Stoner, Thanks, Jim. This came from SecNav in Rifle. Tour of DutyMy Tho, RVN. I don't know that the mini-gun was ever used, but I saw the Honeywell One OP 34A mission, on July 31, led to North Vietnamese patrol boat attacks on the USS Maddox on Aug. 2 and a possible second attack on Maddox and C. Turner Joy two days later. now During that time From: Hoot Andrews The My Tho boat got the Mini-gun in the gun tub and was mounted on the lip of the helo pad. the beam aft of the conning tower He envisioned the airlift of an LSSC-sized craft behind started after the remainder of the convoy. Plankowner US Dept. I got up a few minutes later and ended up riding shotgun Industries , headquartered in Conroe,TX, , a world wide organization dealing John R. Rapp Above: Next to final version of My Tho boat with gun tub and recoilless, but no bar armor. in number 5 tube. east. Each SEAL platoon had a mobile support team (MST) boat element assigned. 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