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I was just doing a search for something else and came across this site. It is a site about a ship that rescued some Vietnamese boat people in 1980. The Vietnamese are now grown and thanking the crew for their rescue. I was struck with the success of these rescued people: Master degree; CalPoly, college math professor, etc. Isn't America wonderful! (These people sure blow a hole in the welfare mindset, huh?)

Well one things for certain from their post they came here to be Americans. If other nations citizens came to this nation with that much drive a lot of fiscal issues would be resolved as well as a lot of resentment. We didn't have any rescues except for S&R for our own crew members. The closest thing we found to anything like that was an empty capsized dingy coming back from the VI's I think.

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"The closest thing we found to anything like that was an empty capsized dingy coming back from the VI's I think."

I was there ('65-'67) as a civilian seven times after I got out of the Navy (USS Jallao - SS-368). No recsues necessary then.