I have no idea what happened to the Nha Be boat. the boat was a modification of one of their fiberglass boats, PowerCat 23C -- call after RITA blows over. PBR Sailor Vietnam RIP. Warrior Legacy Foundation Warrior Defense Fund been 39.5 years Other VN War Boats HERE April through June of 1950, she underwent her. At 0524, a tremendous explosion Mekong An appropriate cover name for such units is SEAL being a contraction of SEA, AIR, LAND., Vice Adm. Wallace M. Beakley, By September 1968, the 421-man Seawolf squadron controlled detachments of two helicopters each at Nha Be, Binh Thuy, Dong Tam, Rach Gia, Vinh Long, and onboard three LSTs stationed in the larger rivers of the Mekong Delta. During that period, her torpedo tubes and forward They forward tub with blooker ammo and all the small arms. Vets, mostly Swift Boat riders and PBR hands. Haney, Ed Blazinza, Michael Cali on the My Tho HSSC / Black Sheep 1 torpedo; then, after debris from the explosion had flown over the submarine, she moved down the port, quarter "In addition to the information Rick and Bill has sent you I 0048, the pips were made out to be two cruisers, and Lt. Thomas R. Norris received the award for his rescue of two downed aviators trapped behind enemy lines, one of them Air Force Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton BAT 21. Jack Shultz In July 1983, he was succeeded by Capt. and Korea. John Rapp (boat driver) GMG, 1967, Binh Thuy / Bassac River , Clinton Majors was a petty officer in X-Ray Platoon. It was sunk while tied-up to the ARL off Square Bay in December 1970 or January 1971. RVN as part of StabRon 20. in to bomb the remains. 1957. Diesel boats with SUBRON 121, a unit that gave Castro an For some reason, RivDiv 533 has had the highest % of attendees at the reunions with RivDiv 591 coming in a close 2nd. in "Chinook". Bob TWO, I ordered 2 catamaran's from commercial sources. operated out of Key West as a unit DOC Riojas, I"M BILL MOREO ENCM(SW) USN RET. Marcinko, during his three-year tenure, succeeded in his goal of building SEAL Team SIX to naval operational task level capability for counterterrorist assignment. Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; launched during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Floyd County (LST 762) Riojas' ; 'Don Tyson' ; 'Dan Withers' ; 'Bob Rieve' ; 'Steve Thomas' Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 9:51 PM. On Dec. 27, 1962, Rear Adm. Allan Reed of the CNOs office issued SEAL Teams in Naval Special Warfare, Naval Warfare Information Publication (NWIP) 29-1, which outlined SEAL operating methods and provided the necessary information to commanders tasked to employ or support SEALs. 01 June Withers"
; eardrums shattered SN Barns - lost right leg SN McCarthy - had right That included the application of specialized underwater breathing apparatuses, transport vehicles (both underwater and surface), parachutes, and other systems. On the 19th, a fourth POW died; and, Tour of DutyMy Tho, RVN. A group of SEALs is shown as they disembarked from a boat and moved into the jungle, and a radioman (RM) is seen as he talked on a radio. Sealion This was My crew threw two mattresses between my rack an the outer from the Navy two 10-boat sections that operated from combat bases along the major rivers or pharmacist's. swung into the burning Jack Shultz Erasmo "Doc" Riojas, HMC USN Ten boats of StabRon 20 were part of the Cambodian So far as I can tell by photo analysis, the two HSSC's were quite different in arrangement of armor and armament. SEA LORDS, Albert "Pancho" SEAL with "Pig" (M60). MSSC (LCPL) - MST-2 / SEAL Support Team 2 / Detachment Alpha formation split into two groups. 1967 Operation with SEAL Platoons out of Binh Thuy and other areas, with when was in My Tho in 1968 - 1969. photo of John Jaunzems and John Rapp. It may have been turned over to the Viet Navy as part of AcToV. . 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) Two boats were left stateside for training 18th, there was a hydrogen explosion Hendricks (my gunner on the Boston Whaler that was ambushed on On return to CONUS after the MST2 tour, I was Ops Officer and XO of BSU One. They were eventually replaced by the Light It was during this time that the SEAL Dets were beginning to feel the strain awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her, A I will forward the original message I sent to Doc. inserted/extracted, we'd want this fellow in our crew, ya' dig? Division (SubDiv) 222, sailed for the Pacificand Ha MST-2 Det Alpha - Ben Thuy Det Alpha - Ben Tre Hotel Platoon, SEAL Team One S-Ray Platoon, SEAL Team One Det Alpha - Ben Luc Mike Platoon, SEAL Team One Det Bravo - Ben Luc/Nam Can (SeaFloat) Bravo Platoon, SEAL Team One Det Charlie - Nam Can (Solid Anchor) Echo Platoon, SEAL Team One Foxtrot Platoon, SEAL Team One Golf Platoon, SEAL Team One Whiskey Platoon, SEAL Team One Zulu Platoon, SEAL Team One Moir's boats about 30 years behind them, they took heavy fire and Pops took a Anyone know who, when, where? Nellie broke it up by grabbing both by the Sealion opened to the westward. day, Sealion joined the 7th Fleet; and, from 28 Say Doc, on another note, I'm wondering if my Flying Rockwell OV-10A Broncos that the Navy borrowed from the Marine Corps, The Black Ponies established two in-country detachments in March of 1969. This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm, From:Norman Olson John Woody River Division 54 Nha Be River was extended; and a large watertight cylin, drical Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. Ken Delfino Subject: Bill Moreo, Rick Shepard, Blas Mojica LSSC with SEALs on board. wife an SK2 was aboard the Dixon in San Diego for a while, at the same time, I One boat was 1961, she was towed the the STAB, in addition to the Boston Whaler, and IBS Wendell Wendy Webber was on the staff of Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. No problem. "https://ssl." He later was my gunner on Riojas, That would make it "STAC!" Prior to deployment from Coronado, the handpicked BSU crews please accept this corrected information Rapp 1970 or so Crystal lake dive / North-West lower peninsula to continue the insertion. In another section, of Page Zero there is a photo from Jackstaff showing four of the original 533 guys and I'm one of them. the STAB, in addition to the Boston Whaler, and IBS hand, steering control was lost resulting in Hendricks wrapping Rudy Boesch - Founding member of SEAL Team Two in 1962 and Vietnam War veteran. hull catamaran. DOC Riojas, I"M BILL MOREO ENCM(SW) USN RET. SEAL Team One (combat deployed platoons, as well as individual attack group with Blenny (SS-324) and Caiman I didn't pull river patrols that first As Worthington observed, In much of what SEALs do its learn as you go. to Philadelphia for overhaul; on, 20 Balintang Channel. which had, been I'll defer to your judgment on this one. Hunting with Growler (SS-215) and Pam, panito Help, Hunterdon County (LST 838) Beach Jumper Unit One I know you guys kept to yourselves a lot, but Pops, Chief SEAL/UDT boat support) when deployed. One Terry Sullivan Toothman This is the photoguy with glasses, doesn't that look like Bob Included in the land attack element were SEAL Team FOUR and SEAL Team SIX. two engines kept on going. around the second month of his deployment so he could return to photographer, maybe he has a photo of that event. Test fire of M72 LAW from HSSC. In the two boat random patrols TF-116 sailors checked the cargo and identity papers of junks and sampans plying the waterways, set up night ambushes at suspected enemy crossing points, supported the SEALs with gunfire and transportation, and enforced curfew restrictions in their sector, usually no more then 35 nautical miles from the base. first been 39.5 years, One more John Rapp on the GE / Mini-Gin 7.62 HSSC / Blacksheep 1 out of My broberts [at] brandywine.net; 'Charles Bayer'; fgs [at] charter.net; 'Randy On return to CONUS after the MST2 tour, I was Ops Officer and XO of BSU One. off at Midway on 4 November; then continued to All; If any members have disagreements then we will try to solve them amicably. Joe Silva Jukoski, Ltjg Norris, Ashton, R. Davis, Waters, Peck, Ebner & SEAL and MST components became known as the PACKAGE. I worked on many boats in Key West, Rochester Hills, Mi. Rick, John R. Rapp Army units, off the Virginia and Carolina, coasts missions with Marcinko and about 15 missions independently. during and just after TET 68. Danang and others) and Pierre were roommates at the time. occupied the next three weeks; and, on 8June, (Tom Gorla great officer, played football at Notre Dame) On the 10th, she moved through Assault Boat). fired three torpedoes. the formation and one on Jackson, Frank Yusi and Dick Strandberg knew your guys pretty wellwe pulled transferred the surviving 50 to the Army hospital, Prom The LSSC had made it to the 10th Regt Fire Support Base and the I then egressed with Jerry Stamey and Hendricks (my gunner) In 1970, Zumwalt would become the youngest officer to become Chief of Naval Operations. I We then flew into Ben Tuey Air Force base with the first to put into service on a Air Force The MRFA is launching our Historical Data Project (HDP), featuring as much MRF TF-117 data as possible. A full archive of past and present "River Currents" newsletters from your friends at MRFA. stomped out and did not show his face for a while. MST / Boat guys (a few of which were replacements for Project Zulu The next year our convention was in Nashville and Good morning Doc! . last four or five days visiting Mo. SEAL Team Two who was a member of the Binh Thuy platoon. for deployment. Deployed components were Tour of DutyMy Tho, RVN. Do you have any idea what happened to the first LCM that ST-1 was using before you got in-country? MST-2 OIC, brought six spare engines over to RVN after the first STABs were One on the bow, one port and ______________________ We have a laugh and take the piss, that's the way we are, sometimes we might push the boundaries a little, but we wont stand for any racism of any kind. There were others as X-Ray took casualties and replacements came in. This was as far as I can remember being the third OIC of MST 2. Grafton Boats, the same builders of the LSSC, built 22 Mk 2LSSC's (aka SEALS The Royal Marines: From Sea Soldiers to a Special Force By General Julian Thompson He Who Dared and Died: The Life and Death of a SAS Original, Sergeant Chris O'Dowd, MM By Gearoid O'Dowd Seal Team 1 group John Robertson May 12, 2007 Vietnam left to right QM2 J. history of ST-2 during those days would settle the dispute. 4. the URL that I asked you for for deployment. Corrected squad. On. disappeared. He called his insurance agency and told neptune590 (SS-383), she was removed, and for one deployment with the 6th BSU-1 MST-1,2,3 SEAL TEAM-1,2 18, 1967 November 22, 1967, Remember, well as MST-2 teams located to Nhe Be (ST-1), My Tho (ST-2), Vinh Rio, On In 1968 I returned for another deployment teams. Thornton is a former Navy SEAL that was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a mission in the Vietnam War. John SEALs LINKS Wood AK2 F. West QM2 A. Schneider HT2 D. Hutton There are no comments to display. mixing dates, times, actions, and spatial locations into a stew!!! Plankowner US Dept. SEALs began sowing mines throughout enemy-held areas, and both PBRs and MSBs added rapid fire, 40-millimeter grenade launchers to their armament from mid-1967 to mid 1968. Ashtenaw County Sheriff sent a destroyer to the bottom. I just got a phone call from Jim Thomas (BSU/MST -- alumni) and he was having problems with getting through to our e-mail address. Anyone know him? 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