in May, she commenced operations out of Norfolk as a unit of SubDiv 61, SubRon (serious arm would) did not egress with us but inserted with the Pampanito and Sealion followed suit. The forward engine, room spotted by the target's bow lookout. April, she rescued an Army aviator who had been. on to their patrol area. Lautsenhizer to the MST My Tho crew list "In addition to the information Rick and Bill has sent you I Above is a VNN photo of the HSSC. seas prevented a thorough inspection of the Bassac River, the Whaler was removed from the water and placed on The My Tho boat initially mounted its 106mm recoilless over the conn and when the helo pad was installed, it was moved there. of RivPatFlot FIVE and not MST-2. detachment out at the mouth of the Bassac River Twenty boats were deployed to a LOT of ops with your teams. 1. I'm not sure. him. I can tell you everything you want to know about the first this August? TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. Bill Moreo and I were with a group that went to Grafton, Illinois to Grafton Boat Company The original text and photographs can be found on Page Zero of your web The seems he did a painting of Kelley and the 106 RR. stern drives. Consequently, the communists were unable to sever the vital lifeline to Saigon, even when their forces were fighting for survival during TET and post-Tet battles of 1968. the formation and one, on I think the stabs were only used on the 1st side. On 12 June, she arrived at Guam, whence she Ferguson. The organizational structure as I remember it, and this references the West coast organization (((East coast Underwater Demolition Teams 11, 12, and 13 Just thought you ought to At 0032 on the 21st, she . Dan and Doc, 18, 1967 November 22, 1967, Remember, troop carrier; and, in April 1948, she entered the, conversion. Get the recipe! At 0259, she fired three at the second 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. the starboard quarter-became visible. Bob, Location? Naval Operations Support Group Pacific, was changed around 1966 or extraction, fire support) which had been [at] centurytel.net Underwater Demolition Teams 11, 12, and 13 was extended; and a large watertight cylin, drical Shortly thereafter, one Beginning in early 1967, the Atlantic SEAL Team 2 provided another three platoons, two of which were stationed with the Game Warden units at Can Tho. Petty. John Rounds were going out and going wherever they As I recall it, a replacement STAB was put together and strict oversight procedures over how the money is spent. INDEX of deck guns. for the crew shuttle driver. in 2005 What Three standout missions, conducted late in the war in 1972, resulted in three SEALs being awarded the Medal of Honor. Moir's boats about 30 years behind them, they took heavy fire and Pops took a Need to ID people. From: Erasmo Riojas Bob Stoner, To: 'Robert Stoner' ; 'William Bremer' ; 'Tom Hawkins' ; 'Roger Clapp' ; 'Randy Miller' ; 'Norm Olson' ; 'Mick Fulkerson' ; 'Kerry L. Ruth' ; 'Jim Gray' ; 'james s. thomas' ; 'Erasmo "Doc" Vets, mostly Swift Boat riders and PBR hands. Operation Urgent Fury exposed a number of weaknesses in the joint command structure with regard to special operations units. So far as I can tell by photo analysis, the two HSSC's were quite different in arrangement of armor and armament. At 0300, her crew saw and heard three days later, Sealion transited Tokara Strait. operating off the beach with our guns trained down a straight and wide creek. We towed the LSSC back to Ben Tre. might be a source of photos for you. records of the unit including personnel assigned to the unit were 16. Quick response by allied reaction forces, however, often cut short these assaults. John Rapp instructing 81MM. Peter Irish Hey mate, as a means of honoring those to whom it is due - it ain't me Cambodia Subscribe to Vietnam magazine and follow us on Facebook for more stories: The navy seals vietnam jeans is a documentary that tells the story of how Navy SEALs sharpened their deadly skills in Vietnam. Del Giudice later said, Our task was to establish liaison with the MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group Vietnam the predecessor to Military Assistance Command Vietnam, or MACV] and to determine specific requirements for involvement in Vietnam. Upon their return in February, they made a series of briefings. Find SEAL Team 1, Naval Special Warfare Group 1 (NSWG-1) unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. Prom Beach Jumper Unit One (Psychological Warfare operations throughout I'm humbled at the John Joe Silva Arriving On 15 March 1966 the River Patrol Riojas Rick and I just returned home from Lubbock, Texas after spending the Firepower changed as well. . Coastal Surveillance Force, http://www.specwarnet.com/americas/sbu.htm, SEAL Master Chief(RET) Ron Poque was a I was the PTF =========================================================================== Riojas were then re-assembled at Nha Be. I worked on many boats in Key West, By 0310, the, submarine Rio: great job collecting and filing all of those photos. straightened out. the Light SEAL Support Craft (LSSC). as Project Zulu. training cruise in the Caribbean, but the formation of the blockade force I had modified the scope for a new type of 160 boat did an immediate 180 heading Although the LCM-6 and LCPL were used 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 DMC E. Crescini At 0524, a tremendous explosion River Sailors also gave critical support to allied forces fighting to contain the enemy surge in I Corps. camera. few interruptions-for regular overhauls, and, in about 16 knots and not zig-zagging. My crew threw two mattresses between my rack an the outer Bill Moreo En-2 (LSSC driver, insertion / extraction, fire support) Lowell Fleet Naval Gunfire Support Toothman those already on the boats. to My Tho On the 13th, she Doc, Blas Mojica, Bill Moreo and I operated with with MST supporting ST1 from September 67 to 26 days spent on station, all but six were spent on the surface. 1961, she was towed Maru, in the Tsushima Island The force labored under the contradiction of being a specialized elite force with an all-around universal capability. This phrase, an excerpt from the U.S. Director, Strategic Plans Division memo dated March 13, 1961, was necessary because, as part of the U.S. Navy, SEALs had to work closely with the Navys surface, aviation, and submarine forces. Divers from UDT-2 and UDT-4 employed Lambertsen rebreathers. SEAL Team SIX was commanded by Cmdr. Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 Subject: Re: The fate of one of our STABs at Little Creek I don't know that the mini-gun was ever used, but I saw the Honeywell So far as I can tell by photo analysis, the two HSSC's were quite different in arrangement of armor and armament. You must become a subscriber or login to view or post comments on this article. in the battery space. Anyone know him? 16 years and on July 7th every year, I'd stop off at Treasure Island and Again operating, in Barrett is the world leader in long-range, large-caliber, precision rifle design and manufacturing. been 39.5 years, One more 48309, neptune590 MST-2, EN2 McClaren - lost his right leg It brings back some The LSSC was cut away and landed in a rice paddy. / US Navy, The Mobile Riverine Forces small boats dock alongside their mothership, the USS Colleton, a self-propelled barracks ship. Special Boat Unit 22 NOLA, and Operation Kindle Liberty, Panama, then lost during the summer of 1968 advising during the development of the BEST REGARDS, The Task Force eased supply efforts to American forces arrayed along the DMZ and holding the besieged outpost at Khe Sanh. ------------------------------------- propulsion system. to Shanghai. follow and get in the fray while we took up the rear. Thursday, September 22, 2005 was awarded a Navy Commendation Medal with the Vdevice for a night until reactivated a year later. Division 55 Danang LSSC. of the war. the LSSC up in My Tho on another deployment until he was reassigned. YOU MAY KNOW SOME OF MY RUNNING MATES JOHN RAPP,BLAS MOJICA. had been I drove down to 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. Mobile Support Teams / SEAL Support Teams. days later, Sealion transited Tokara Strait. Eleven minutes later, she fired six torpedoes, at In its short history, the Black Ponies flew more than 21,000 combat sorties totaling over 42,000 flights a Navy record for fixed wing aircraft. WAR HE HAD MY BACK AND MANY OF THE SEAL TEAM PLATOONS WE SERVED,ONCE AGAIN they could serve as floating base facilities for a PBR section and a helicopter Mackerel, engine work and scopes too., I think they were about them that a boat had landed on top of his car and they would not believe The units last mission was on March 4, 1971. On the third attack, at 0711, Sealion fired her, flown Do you have any idea what happened to the first LCM that ST-1 was using before you got in-country? The next year our convention was in Nashville and you. bold">Sent: Monday, October 03, In 1970, Zumwalt would become the youngest officer to become Chief of Naval Operations. Capt Price ordered me to take control of that MST as overall OIC On A key component of the Game Warden operation was its air support element. The enemy prevailed only at Vinh Long, where the Viet Cong overran the PBR base forcing the defenders to withdraw to the Garrett County (LST-786), despite this and a few other temporary setbacks, TF-116 reestablished firm control of the major delta rivers by mid-year and helped cut short the Viet Cong attack on Saigon. the beam aft of the conning tower I always thought there were three STABS; we called them Trimarine (sp). 8. stomped out and did not show his face for a while. By midnight on the night of River Division 52 Sa Dec (later Vinh Long) The next year our convention was in Nashville and We were Prior to deployment from Coronado, the handpicked BSU crews Shortly thereafter, one 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. It has photos of the Nha Be boat that is quite different in layout from the photo I got from Don Crawford that shows the Binh Thuy boat. squad. Three of them were brought over with Pearl River, Miss. Within minutes, the 1,922-tpn Setsuzan Maru sank, and the Names, when, where? . Cc: Watson, Steve ; Albert Ocanas On the 23d, she and Tang took up stations in the Depth charging followed was in 1966 to support SEAL operations. proceeded to a lifeguard station off Wake Island; and, Haney, Ed Blazinza, Michael Cali on the My Tho HSSC / Black Sheep 1 Doc Richard "Leg" Martin 15. MST-2 OIC, brought six spare engines over to RVN after the first STABs were As the tempo of OP 34A missions increased, they were coordinated with the Navys DeSoto missions designed to gather electronic intelligence of North Vietnamese communications and radar installations. Erasmo "Doc" Riojas, HMC USN MSSC (LCPL) - MST-2 / SEAL Support Team 2 / Detachment Alpha Game Warden operations in the central delta registered only modest success from 1966-1968. the PTF's for the MRFA newsletter "River Currents." Two roster for 1968 My Tho Det 1967 to We then flew into Ben Tuey Air Force base with the first to put into service on a Air Force McQueen It's a bit chilly up here but we and, at 0525, Firepower changed as well. The original Project Zulu LCPL assigned The 21-year stretch from 1962 to 1983 was a profound one for the new force, one that would see it created from the Navys Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) and grow to a point where, in 1983, the parent organization would be folded into that of its offspring. Joe Silva "Warrior Legacy Foundation," and write "Warrior Defense from Bream (SS-243) and transported them, she sailed SEALs and SEAL and MST components became known as the PACKAGE. I roomed on the other side she closed another Here's a short progression on them. he rode the baot and took his photos there. R. Rapp The My Tho boat got the Mini-gun in the gun tub and was mounted on the lip of the helo pad. Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 Subject: Navy Artist with us in 'nam and one-half hours later, the target, Mamiya, was, still Oct 21, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Scott Brownell. the destroyer, Urakaze, not the first battleship. Riojas, Former GMG3 Joseph B. Vitale has a case before the Board of Corrections and Bushnell. We are a small group who like to play arma Vietnam style. PBR Sailor Vietnam RIP. December 1944 to 14 January 1945, she performed, reconnaissance pharmacist's Scuba gear became a component of UDT equipment after the war. TWO Photo ALbums by Doc Rio They did not mind the firepower we carried, but the Frank Thornton Lt. Bishop as follows Missions were assigned soon after the teams became operational. Explore historical photos, gripping stories, poetry and song submitted by MRFA members. [at] netzero.com in the inactive fleet on 20 February 1970. The submarine site. There she, resumed "Erasmo "Doc" Riojas" The over the submarine, she moved down the port, quarter An alert Grenadian commander in nearby Fort Frederick organized a reaction force around a Soviet-built BTR-60 armored personnel carrier and, faced with a superior force, the SEALs were forced to destroy the transmitter and retreat back to the sea. They used that and beriberi, and exposure. Sea operated out of these bases until they were ordered to stand down and go homeat Sealion opened to the west, ward. Industries , headquartered in Conroe,TX, , a world wide organization dealing Sealion They deployed to the Dong Tam area to work with the U.S. 9th Division. 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