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To: pboyington

Remember the Pueblo. Lloyd Bucher was almost court martialed.


2 posted on 01/15/2016 6:28:21 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: forgotten man

Do you think these kids were set up by the CIC?

I think so


5 posted on 01/15/2016 6:32:02 PM PST by Kozy
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To: forgotten man

I was in the second grade and one of my classmate’s brother was on that ship .


15 posted on 01/15/2016 6:45:17 PM PST by katykelly
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To: forgotten man

I remember it well. I was sitting atop a hill in Osan Korea that fateful night waiting for Lyndon Johnson to give the order to go and get that boat. The order never came and Lloyd Bucher and his crew were held for close to 11 months.

A rather mundane boring tour of duty turned real serious that night and remained that way till their release.


29 posted on 01/15/2016 6:57:19 PM PST by kempster
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To: forgotten man

Lloyd Bucher saved the lives of those that normaly manned the 50 calibers guns. The covers were frozen so to send people out to remove frozen covers then load and fire, there’s no telling how many crew would have been killed. The Pueblo was surrounded by four PT boats, 1 SO-1 sub chaser, and overflown by at least two Migs. The SO-1 fired the shot that killed Fireman Duane Hodges and wounded several others, including Bucher. So the Pueblo was in a no-win situation. Sad the he had to face a near court martial as a result. The entire crew acted well under the circumstances.


34 posted on 01/15/2016 7:08:41 PM PST by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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To: forgotten man
And I heard that the guy killed:

Fireman Duane Hodges was killed by North Korean gunfire during the taking of the Pueblo

was doing his job - trying to destroy classified....

57 posted on 01/16/2016 3:41:58 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: forgotten man
This whole thing stinks to high heaven....

I'm sure as the sun will rise today that Obama, Jarrett, Kerry and the Ayatollahs are up to their eyeballs in skulduggery...

Way too many Iranian / USA events in the last few days that need the dots connected...

I'm sure congress will get right on it...(puking)

67 posted on 01/17/2016 5:11:43 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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