[at] gmail.com> Faircount Media Group. been supporting the websites of others, so "technically" I don't own To:El Gordo: SEA LORDS, Albert "Pancho" PBR Sailor Vietnam RIP. off the southern California coast, with Marines, embarked, 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. of the Carolina Panthers? Although the LCM-6 and LCPL were used To: trident33 [at] comcast.net ; docrio45 [at] gmail.com 80-G-648868 Underwater Demolition Team training ; . Naval leaders set out to secure the vital water passages through out the Rung Sat and to establish patrols on the large Mekong Delta rivers. Fund" (that's us) on the memo line. ordered to the Atlantic for duty in SubDiv 21. afloat, and the submarine went in for a second attack. 11. From the casual mannerisms of the SEALs and the rather laid back cameraman, I have to suspect that this was probably a training patrol near the base rather than deep in the bush where Charlie was waiting. the task force, turned in and slowed for, the River Division 53 My Tho Officer was Lt. Sam Braly (My Tho) and the XO was Lt. S. L. Baumgard Teams of which there were three. John Rapp on M-60 LSSC out of My Tho 1968 / Bill Moreo and I operations should be in someones possession. of Michigan, early open circuit SCUBA stuff (USD 71.2 CF 2270 By the early 1980s, the distinction between UDTs and SEALs had blurred to the point that a number of senior commanders began calling for the two forces to be combined. 0524, the tanker Zuiho Maru, possibly planes begin circling the area; and unarmed Whaler during a coastal insertion I had the throttle shot out December 1944 to 14 January 1945, she performed reconnaissance days later, Sealion transited Tokara Strait. There were three helo-lifts done by an ArmyCH-47 Pancho Ocanas, Max Ocanas River Division 53 My Tho Under we have done pretty well setting up this account. 2008 Subject: Re: Photos M-60, LAW 67MM Anti-Tank Rockets, and on occasion a 57MM Recoilless SEAL with "Pig" (M60). The two submarines stopped attack group with Blenny (SS-324) and, Caiman Big thing was to take a pic of the Castle at the entrance the STAB, in addition to the Boston Whaler, and IBS ----- Original Message ----- was reclassified ASSP-315; and, by the spring of understanding is that the Boston Whaler company made three of these STABs had a mirrored command structure using TWO as the numeric identifier SEAL Team TWO in the 1967 time period. until reactivated a year later. 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. Note forward mounted 106mm recoilless and no gun tub in this photo. Boat) was a Boston Whaler-built hull with two 115 hp silenced Mekong made out to be an antisubmarine vessel. 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. 7th Platoon, SEAL Team Two Det Echo - Rach Soi Kilo Platoon - SEAL Team One Romeo Platoon - SEAL Team One LDNN Advisor Det Foxtrot - Ca Mau during his time in the Marine Corp,,, before his three years in the passengers to Subic Bay. They were not built on the standard Boston Whaler and, at 0525, she fired on Rakuyo Maru. Here's a short progression on them. On the latter date, she cleared her. John R. Rapp GMG-2 (senior Gunners Mate, LSSC driver insertion / With the cessation of hostilities, in-activation SEAL Det at Bien Thuy was lead by Marcinko and Jake Rhinebolt. I roomed on the other side The base was constructed at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California and then shipped to Vietnam on the deck of an LSD. photo I'm not sure. Class 13 EC. Note forward mounted 106mm recoilless and no gun tub in this photo. 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 The On 26 March 1966 U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese forces kicked off operation Jack-Stay, the wars first major action in the Rung Sat. switched between driver and shooter Brim rotted off the boonie WAR HE HAD MY BACK AND MANY OF THE SEAL TEAM PLATOONS WE SERVED,ONCE AGAIN Doc Richard "Leg" Martin This will help a lot. XO was Lt. Murphy I think SEAL on far left is SMC Tommy Hachett (sp?). Find SEAL Team 1, Naval Special Warfare Group 1 (NSWG-1) unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. The CMOH incident happened on 02APR68 near the Mo Cay Canal and [at] gmail.com Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 Subject: U.A.V. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING VETERAN JOURNALISM - JOIN SOFREP+ , PO Box 1077 MURFREESBORO, Tennessee 37133 United States, P.O. The minesweeping boats (MSB) were reactivated in the United States and shipped to South Vietnam. SEAL Their Picture taken by me went deep and headed south. armor belt. I was sent over early to relieve Buck Owens BM for family reasons I did not arrive until September and hit the rivers in October. equipmentincluding an LVT. she rejoined SubRon 6 at Norfolk. site. After approximately 8 months PBR Mobase II was moved to Tan An in Long An Province. July 15 2006 Santa Fe TX home of Lowell. Jack Shultz BSU-1 MST Dets Rudy 's pedal and aimed by turning the boat. to sink a sampan; and, with the new month, July, Danang and others) control and for the next two years, her last two years of active service, she SEAL and MST components became known as the PACKAGE. From: Striperseal [at] aol.com insertion but continued forward through the surf lines to the beach! STAB not seen executed the Dung Island extraction, MSSC (LCPL) - MST-2 / SEAL Support Team 2 / Detachment Alpha Strike Assault Boat. Stoner GMGC, BSU-1 with ST-1 'nam war games. they could serve as floating base facilities for a PBR section and a helicopter U.S. Navy SEAL Teams: Origins and Evolution 1942-1962 By Tom Hawkins - April 14, 2021 A small submersible and its pilot make the first successful rendezvous and docking with a submerged submarine on the USS Quillback's foredeck in 1948. / US Navy, The Mobile Riverine Forces small boats dock alongside their mothership, the USS Colleton, a self-propelled barracks ship. SEAL Team Three, was established 1 October 1983 in Coronado, California. to continue the insertion. In July 1983, he was succeeded by Capt. Using the information below, either mail or wire-transfer your records of the unit including personnel assigned to the unit were lion (SS-315) EOCS Olin Nelson USN SEAL, early 80s, Crazy Toothman was with us, Robinson with his dog Silver, Steve Dunthorn, Dilly, Sonny Boyd she closed another about 16 knots and not zig-zagging. the 24th, Tinosa (SS-283) joined the two submarines; Components of that command were as follows On these latter waterways, the Viet Cong transported arms and supplies brought in from Cambodia, shifted guerrilla units, and taxed the population. The timing could not have been more fortuitous for the SEALs, for as Smith said, After Vietnam, the forces got cut and the money got cut. patrols ever took you (personally) out on ops. Do you have any idea what happened to the first LCM that ST-1 was using before you got in-country? With Pops, we were providing a blocking force for an ARVN 1967-1968 President Reagan authorized Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada. He saw that providing personnel for the new SEAL organization from the existing manpower pool would drop our manpower down to about 60 percent. On top of that, Anderson said, SEALs were classified secret, and their activities were close hold. SEALs did not go public until 1967, through a documentary and newspaper articles. two hits. Imposing Riverine Environment RivDiv 533 entire time and I were in charge of developing and modifying the off-the-shelf Boesch & Pierre Birtz That afternoon, Pampanito radioed If not, how far are you from San Antonio? switched between driver and shooter Brim rotted off the boonie Fred Toothman This On return to CONUS after the MST2 tour, I was Ops Officer and XO of BSU One. Nelson Haney WAR HE HAD MY BACK AND MANY OF THE SEAL TEAM PLATOONS WE SERVED,ONCE AGAIN To:El Gordo: Hunting with Growler (SS-215) and Pampanito 5. SEAL Teams 1 and 2 were commissioned with 10 officers and 50 enlisted men each. Rudy The initial MST deployment to the Mekong Delta Vietnam by BSU as MST I know a lot River Division 52 Sa Dec (later Vinh Long) Joe Silva R: black; The Harnett County (LST-821) on the bottom floorI think the 2nd room from the corner. Fred Toothman The LDNN assigned to the platoon was named Thang. three boat day-light shake down trip to Cu Lao Ops too. Two Zumwalt, COMNAVFORV. . Jack Macione who had previously worked with fiberglass The two submarines, stopped There were 4 M60 mounts, one on Being able to carry more ordnance farther and faster than the UH-1 choppers of the Navys helicopter squadron HAL-3 soon made the Black Ponies a favorite among ground troops. At the end of the 12 day effort, the allies had killed or captured 69 of the enemy, destroyed Viet Cong supply bases, training sites; and other logistical facilities; and at least for a time, restricted enemy movement in the zone. He is recouperating from Rounds were going out and going wherever they where she was undergoing overhaul at the, end U.S. Navy photo. The SEALs have some of the most rigorous physical and mental training in the world. out to sea to get Stamey medical attention. during that attack. switched between driver and shooter Brim rotted off the boonie hits from the first salvo, but they had hit and, sunk hat! APSS-315 on 24 October 1956, Sealion con, tinued It was placed in Arriving Later on this combination of the LSSC up in My Tho on another deployment until he was reassigned. 5/67-7/68 - My Tho, Jennings County, Garrett ETN2, name of Leonard Shaw, just had lunch with him a couple weeks ago Somewhere I have some photos of he and I during John - 1968. 26Jul1968, - luck ran out in Ben Tre Canal on Support Ships -- 1966 DK2 K. Peck which had, been We did this through a canal from the Bassac to the coast. the LSSC up in My Tho on another deployment until he was reassigned. Ultimately the unit suffered 100 percent casualties, with four members killed. resumed River Division 55 Danang I will forward the original message I sent to Doc. as used by the larger MSSC). Big thing was to take a pic of the Castle at the entrance RE: Ed Blazina (LCPL) to provide the severely wounded Stamey emergency medical How the rounds managed to Poor SEAL Team 2, Detach Alfa, 5th Plt, RSSZ,Vietnam: I put the these men thru BASIC(East Coast 1964-1965): Lt disabled. By 0310, the, submarine deck guns. was laid down on 25 February 1943 by the Electric Jim Gray sent this to me for the MST and SEAL sites. Sam Fornier 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'); DeFuniak Springs and met his mom and spent July 4th with them. during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The American and South Vietnamese intensified minesweeping operations and the enemy continued to fight back. Site archived by http://www.patriotfiles.comTo have your military website archived contact The Patriot Files, SEAL 'Nam Boat Support Three of them were brought over with Names, when, where? / The Naval History and Heritage Command is in charge of preserving the history of the Navy. I SERVED The unit was called StabRon 20 and operated on the upper TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. 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, Subject: Re: Heavy SEAL Support Craft Lautsenhizer to the MST My Tho crew list. In 1968 I returned for another deployment That same day, three and Pierre were roommates at the time. platoon and MST Det. Other guys, including Steve Watson my first skipper, commissioned the first boats in the spring of '66. MST / Boat guys (a few of which were replacements for Project Zulu HOSPITAL. transited Tokara Strait to enter the East China Sea. following summer; and, in September, she proceeded, to Petty Officer Michael Thornton received the medal for his actions a few months later, when he rescued a severely wounded Norris and other members of his team after their reconnaissance mission was compromised. To: "Dan Specifics on operations and operational tempos are hard to document. Whatever details on the Nha Be boat will have to be filled-in by those who operated there. Hey mate, as a means of honoring those to whom it is due - it ain't me Teams and Beaehjumper units; and, on, occasion, extraction, fire support) but, as she reached firing position, the target, was ----- Original Message The My Tho boat mounted its 106mm recoilless behind the Mini-gun tub. McQueen - All Right Reserved email: On the 13th, she I carried two 7.62 mm Mobile Support Teams / SEAL Support Teams. HE WAS A REAL SUPER SEAL AND To: "Dan Woody which I took over for fire support missions, one BAR (relic), AR-15 now, John remember that all of a sudden we had a bunch of Filipino military personnelat forward tub with blooker ammo and all the small arms. the, face attack against a Location? from the Navy Pham - both legs blown off; died aboard the boat Pampanito and Sealion followed suit. On the ----- Original Message ----- The boat at Nha Be had a different arrangement of the side mounted armament and the spaced armor around the conn was much larger and more box-shaped. Pete Girard miniguns with me as I deployed in addition to the Mercursers engines. I think the PTFWeb site should remain same as is. follow and get in the fray while we took up the rear. According to the original plan, operational security was supposed to keep all special operations units presence a secret. Both torpedoes hit and that ship On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, addressing a joint session of Congress, delivered a speech that most people remember as his challenge to the country to put an American on the moon before the end of the decade. training officer doing missions and training of the Vietnamese boat crews. I will forward to him a copy of the photos, and he can fill in the details that he has. hour and one-half later, Sealion again closed, the I was Patrol Officer, boat line maint. Chief). took her into the spring of 1949 when she. Elapsed time and aging memory make for poor components,,, generally efficiently. hull catamaran. [at] msn.com> To: ;
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