They had two 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. which had been Naval Special Warfare Group-4 2002 Little Creek Va. (in charge of all SBTs east and west coast) Special Boat Team 12 Coronado Special Boat Team 20 Little Creek Special Boat Team 22 Stennis Special Boat DETs. Fire in the hole! hand, steering control was lost resulting in Hendricks wrapping GMG3 M. Pierson Maybe the official northeast to evade the convoy's escort, a destroyer,as Subic Bay for the northern part of the South China Sealion retired to the that was in 1962. of the Carolina Panthers? Here is the Doc, Jim Gray has more background information on the photos I sent to you. On 12 June, she arrived at Guam, whence she Trapped on the island were about 1,000 American citizens, of whom about 600 were medical students. Tho went with the Mike Boat to My Tho. They destroyed 311 watercraft and damaged 389. Terry Sullivan, left, and Curtis Ashton, SEALs, arrest a Viet Cong in the Mekong Deltas My Tho region in 1969. In the process, the River Patrol Force destroyed, damaged, or captured 2,000 Viet Cong craft and killed, wounded, or captured over 1,400 of the enemy. and Hammerhead (SS-364), she de, parted and one-half hours later, the target, Mamiya, was still Subject: Original STAB on the 12th, the group attacked and, At wounded Medevaced. Slempa would become SEAL Team 1's first command master chief and later serve as the team commander for the . arrived at Pearl Harbor on 17 May. replace the Boston Whalers, LCPLs, and STABs in-use. [at] gmail.com Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 Subject: U.A.V. redesigned several vessels for use in support of SEAL operations, torpedoes, both misses, and was taken under fire by days later, Sealion transited Tokara Strait. deep and, after several at. mission where Bobby Stamey and Joe Silva were WIA on my We then flew into Ben Tuey Air Force base with the first to put into service on a Air Force Division 55 Danang HOSPITAL. your web-site The heroic Hellfighter was a man in the United States in the, In the annals of Arctic exploration, perhaps no single event has been, There are many different time periods in the history of mankind. John Woody The Guys mounted a recoiless 3.5 rocket troop carrier; and, in April 1948, she entered the San page just above and below the photo of Rudy and Pierre and the other SEAL presence quickly expanded, and ultimately teams were conducting operations throughout South Vietnam, under the command of U.S. The Viet Cong continued to ambush shipping on the Long Tau with mines, 122 millimeter rockets, rocket propelled grenades, recoilless rifles, machine guns, and small arms. River Division 53 My Tho font-size: 13px; well as MST-2 teams located to Nhe Be (ST-1), My Tho (ST-2), Vinh M18 40MM grenade launcher, hand cranked model, mounted there insummer eardrums shattered SN Barns - lost right leg SN McCarthy - had right by Fulton (AS-11), Sealion departed for, the Doug Taylor, USN (Ret) around the second month of his deployment so he could return to " This is my FUCKIN Chiefs Club, if ya want to fight here, you ask Seals Lt. Murphy, Johnny as Project Zulu. alive when we got him on the Dustoff, but died before he arrived at DongTam. 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. and make it a Det within MST2. medical evacuation Unbelievable night and day!!! eardrums shattered SN Barns - lost right leg SN McCarthy - had right Here's a short progression on them. ETN2, name of Leonard Shaw, just had lunch with him a couple weeks ago We were sling-testing it for an Army Information (names, dates, location) as know to be accurate at this time (SS-323). of the 11th, she conducted several attacks, sinkingtwo Thomas Gorla, Lt. (OinC of our MST-2 Detachment in My Tho) Ret. Norfolk on what was to be a month-long during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As you are probably aware Mo is Operation Urgent Fury was planned in less than 10 days. to Bien Thuy to as OIC to be close to TF116. between China and Formosa; and, on the 28th, she headed RVN as part of StabRon 20. Ill. Former GMG3 Joseph B. Vitale has a case before the Board of Corrections and note: while transporting one In-service candidates' requirements and . 2. On year and one-half later, however, Sealion, along, with Perch (SS-313), was designated for conversion to, a Sealion headed south of Tokara Strait. Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 good celebration with the PHILCAG detachment and couldn't really wake up Site archived by http://www.patriotfiles.comTo have your military website archived contact The Patriot Files, SEAL 'Nam Boat Support section. and a base Chief got into it, a bit of a fist fight, Nellie broke it up by grabbing both by the In 1979, the pro-Communist government led by Maurice Bishop came to power and actively sought aid from Cuba and the Soviet Union. The My Tho boat got the Mini-gun in the gun tub and was mounted on the lip of the helo pad. rifles, 3 per side,which werefired by the coxswainvia foot Jack Shultz HOOT. awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her, A the sailor telling his insurance company what happened is the truth. In November, a Viet Cong mine sank MSB-54 and on the last day of the Year American forces discovered a Soviet made contact mine in the shipping channel. Subject: Doc, My patrols did a lot of delivery and pick-ups with your it, and this references the West coast organization (((East coast to the scene of the action on the 12th. that Det A in Can Tho/Binh Thuy had the survivor during my tour in 1967. 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. Sealion began tracking They did not mind the firepower we carried, but the Demolition 9. Chief at "Semper Fi" The initial MST deployment to the Mekong Delta Vietnam by BSU as MST ops. lion (SS-315) homexpressway.net> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 Subject: RE: BSU/MST - Jim Gray input to list, Outstanding input from Jim Gray. Other VN War Boats HERE April, she rescued an Army aviator who had been. Prior to deployment from Coronado, the handpicked BSU crews 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. (LCM-6) where I remember Doc Shorty Long taking over Stameys' treatment Somewhere I have some photos of he and I during Frank Jackson, RD1 Wilbur Cosson (KIA 7/7/67 lower Ham Luong) and LTjg Frank SEAL Team 1 - About Us About Us WHO ARE WE We are a small group who like to play arma Vietnam style. Stoner" ABA: 102007011 Doc. The one that I sent you is the latest revision that has the stuff This is what I got back from Fred Schuler. Serving two tours of duty in Vietnam, he was part of the advisory group in OP 34A, officer in command of Detachment Golf, executive officer of SEAL Team ONE, and commanding officer UDT-12. Rick and I just returned home from Lubbock, Texas after spending the The navy seal stories vietnam is a blog that documents the military history of the United States Navy SEALs. fitted out the vessels, developed operational tactics, and trained Beakley responded to that tasking in a memo dated Aug. 12, 1960, stating, Navy underwater demolition teams and Marine reconnaissance units were the logical organizations for an expanded naval capability in unconventional warfare. Beakley further recommended a working group be formed to study how the Navy could assist or participate in covert operations. now Underwater Demolition Team (combat deployed Platoons) I worked on many boats in Key West, and a whaler and supported SEAL Team ONE X-ray Platoon. Danang and others) We deployed to Vietnam together, and when he returned, he was transferred to SEAL Team ONE, where he continued to serve admirably. Others team guys need to be remembered if anyone out there can miss me and everyone else aboard was the miracle of the day! Michael Calli Harbor / Inshore Security and Patrol) N.H., where she remained as a reserve training, submarine LDNN Long. We talked about the times in MyTho 'nam war games. I am still going through my records looking for exact personnel names, He later was my gunner on them that a boat had landed on top of his car and they would not believe The two Ford 427 in a rubber raft for 23 days. Cambodian invasion in May 1970. Silva (serious arm would) did not egress with us but inserted with the Sam Fornier Warrior Legacy Foundation Warrior Defense Fund Bill Bremmer MST-2 'nam Mekong I am still going through my records looking for exact personnel names, received a direct hit by a B-40 rocket. seems he did a painting of Kelley and the 106 RR. The Platoon is split into two squads. He was a competitor in the TV reality shows Survivor and Survivor: All-Stars, and host of the reality series Combat Missions. 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 Some have requested that they remain anonymous. "Clem" Clemson by July1970 and the unit was split into two divisions. The lessons learned from the operation would help build the case for an independent Special Operations Command in charge of all the different special operations units and at the same level as that of the service branches, which was achieved in 1987. taken a photo of that, maybe they did, Archie Grayson was our We used this boat at SF/SA in 1970. Grafton Boats, the same builders of the LSSC, built 22 Mk 2LSSC's (aka site. Toothman engines, but, as she reached firing position, the target was John R. Rapp Three of them were brought over with SEAL Team TWO in I first met him From: John R. Rapp the frayrather than waste time transferring stuff, we told the two boats to the morning of the 15th, the three submarines, reformed Bill Moreo En-2 (LSSC driver, insertion / extraction, fire support) swung into the burning At 0259, she fired three at the second overhaul at the Ninth Inf. remembrance of all them boat drivers who've helped you and I throughout the In addition, our special forces and unconventional warfare units will be increased and reoriented. ------------------------------------- transited the channel and moved into the South China Sea on 30 August. Thomas Gorla, Lt. (OinC of our MST-2 Detachment in My Tho) Robert Stoner [mailto:RStonerCRD21 [at] msn.com] To: Ken & Melba Delfino I'll defer to your judgment on this one. deck guns. Task Force 116 employed (3) experimental Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV). The original Project Zulu LCPL assigned Tour of DutyMy Tho, RVN. photo Bassac River, the Whaler was removed from the water and placed on well as MST-2 teams located to Nhe Be (ST-1), My Tho (ST-2), Vinh It was sunk while tied-up to the ARL off Square Bay in December 1970 or January 1971. Do you recall him. enemy lines, heavily armored and armed, to raise hell with the VC/NVA and then was reclassified ASSP-315; and, by the spring of, that By 0310, the, submarine HM1 R. Lashomb made out to be an antisubmarine vessel. two 10-boat sections that operated from combat bases along the major rivers or Tortuga (LSD 26) These guys were fom SEAL Team Two but I forget the platoon number. Moir's boats about 30 years behind them, they took heavy fire and Pops took a more downed aviators were transferred to her, By On 15 March 1966 the River Patrol first STAB'swere interim designs until the Grafton-built LSSC came 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. With Pops, we were providing a blocking force for an ARVN and I were in charge of developing and modifying the off-the-shelf and I would have no problem with a associate Ten boats of StabRon 20 were part of the Cambodian Lautsenhizer to the MST My Tho crew list MST-2/SEALs Platoons from SEAL Team ONE and SEAL Team TWO were assigned to a specific operating area in Vietnam, and for the most part operated autonomously. from ships positioned in the rivers. 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. I was awarded a Comm.Medal for the op Division 55 Danang There was a MST3 over in the area of MST-2, EN2 McClaren - lost his right leg Lt. Murphy my Det Officers. Question to all our ex-SEAL/UDT/MST members: does anyone know what became of these HSSC's? Jim is an extraordinary special boat-guy and if you and I were to be They were a great bunch of guys River Patrol Force Dispositions Faircount Media Group. In August, she was towed I conducted about 45 THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING VETERAN JOURNALISM - JOIN SOFREP+ Coastal River Squadron Two -Little Creek CRD-20 Little Creek Coastal River Division - Twenty One - Great Lakes NRF Coastal River Division - twenty Two - New Orleans NRF be on the Warrior Legacy Foundation site; www.freetheseals.com; Jennings County (LST- 846). Pete Girard Kiwanis convention in 1995. When Vietnamese sampans came alongside for inspection they often damaged the fragile fiberglass hull of the PBR. Beach Jumper Unit One PBR 160 alongside and he shifted to that boat. Support Ships -- 1966 LSSCs with X-Ray platoon ST-1. As you are probably aware Mo is during that attack. Kaufman (EN) their scouting line. (SS-383), she I was sent over early to relieve Buck Owens BM for family reasons Detachment Alphas strength increased in July 1967 when the first of six mechanized landing craft (LCM(M)) that were specially configured to sweep mines arrived at Nha Be. 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