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To: The Sailor; kjfine; Old Sarge; USAF_TSgt; darkwing104; txradioguy; Long Cut; Jet Jaguar; armyboy; ..

I spent 3yrs on a destroyer in the Navy from
'66-'69 as a Gunners Mate, GMG3.
USS CORRY DD 817 '68-'69 Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club Member.
http://www.uss-corry.com/
Home port was Norfolk Virginia
and sailed with her in the North Atlantic,
Caribbean,(dealt with Cuban gunboats off of Havana in Jan '68)
thru the Panama Canal, across the Pacific to Viet Nam and back.

I was there the same time Kerry was.
I was there Oct'68-Apr'69 on the destroyer USS Corry DD-817
which supplied PCF's and PBR's
and provided gunfire and gunfire support
in North AND South Viet Nam.

My ship may have even supplied
Kerry's boat in the Mekong Delta

Although there are many similarities between naval gunfire support
and Operation Sea Dragon (which ended Nov '68), they differ in two important areas:
naval gunfire support is normally fired at the request of troops ashore,
while Sea Dragon's mission is the interdiction of supplies and destruction
of military targets; and naval gunfire support is always conducted in South Vietnam,
while Sea Dragon missions are fired only above the demilitarized zone.

29 US Navy ships received gunfire from Viet Cong shore batteries.
My ship DID not get hit by the VC.

In Feb '69 my ship was part of Operation Bold Mariner
which was the largest amphibious assault since Korea.


3 posted on 08/07/2004 10:08:23 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (It only takes one idiot to raze a village.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

BTTT!!!!!!


5 posted on 08/07/2004 10:10:09 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
If only all Vietnam vets would be so forthcoming. Thanks!
12 posted on 08/07/2004 10:16:58 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind ("I will never relent in bringing justice to our enemies..." - President Bush)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Thank you Tonk.


30 posted on 08/07/2004 10:37:03 AM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

bump


31 posted on 08/07/2004 10:40:23 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (I write the songs of sorrow.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

My thanks to Traumer, Arrowhead1952 and Conspiracy Guy for the concept of this pic


36 posted on 08/07/2004 10:51:39 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

I say "Ole Yellow Stain" is a commie war criminal.


70 posted on 08/07/2004 1:35:11 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Bump!


77 posted on 08/07/2004 2:27:53 PM PDT by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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Thank you so much for sharing that!


78 posted on 08/07/2004 2:30:30 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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