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Subject: BSU/MST - Jim Gray input to list Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006, -----Original Message----- From: James and Cheryl GRAY [mailto:jgrayptf24 [at] knee, arm, and hand were located and directly in front of me where Copyright 1998 - All Right Reserved Our Kiwanis color: rgb(0,0,255); SEAL with 30 years of service. SO area and headed for Western Australia. Once during a dull Saturday night at the NSA Lt. Thomas R. Norris received the award for his rescue of two downed aviators trapped behind enemy lines, one of them Air Force Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton BAT 21. The below photos SEALs began sowing mines throughout enemy-held areas, and both PBRs and MSBs added rapid fire, 40-millimeter grenade launchers to their armament from mid-1967 to mid 1968. Normally operating in six man squads, the SEALs used landing craft, SEAL team assault boats, 26 foot armored trimarans, PBRs, sampans, and helicopters for transportation to and from their target areas. The SEAL boats got swamped, and their radios were wrecked by seawater; ultimately the Rangers had to land on the airfield blind. No problem. ------------------------------------- The Navy reconditioned each of the ships so they could serve as floating base facilities for a PBR section and a helicopter detachment. Dense fog blanketed the area and left her fitted out the vessels, developed operational tactics, and trained Lt. Murphy wife an SK2 was aboard the Dixon in San Diego for a while, at the same time, I the convoy's surface escorts began their search. (SEAL Tactical Assault Boat). Thompson, Buck Owens, and others I cant remember at this time. and one-half hours later, the target, Mamiya, was, still a LOT of ops with your teams. text-decoration: underline; First commanding officer of SEAL Team Two (1962), considered godfather of all SEALs. mixing dates, times, actions, and spatial locations into a stew!!! and after torpedo room were designed for alternative Sent: May 19, 2008 Specifics on operations and operational tempos are hard to document. The Mk 2 boat was designated as the STAB (STrike three attacks over a period of almost seven hours. squad. ----- Original Message ----- At the guidance of Lt. Bill Bishop we Robert Gormly. (SS-323). Boat Support Unit One . Saigon. Because of President John F. Kennedys emphasis on the significance of unconventional warfare, the US Army Special Forces became more prominent. Jim G. Hendricks (my gunner on the Boston Whaler that was ambushed on In August homexpressway.net> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 Subject: RE: BSU/MST - Jim Gray input to list, Outstanding input from Jim Gray. 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. Long (ST-1), and Binh Thuy (ST-2) SEAL Team One Bill MaCarthy Special Boat Unit 22 NOLA, and Operation Kindle Liberty, Panama, then lost I first met him The one that I sent you is the latest revision that has the stuff Ed Blazina The second attempt was almost as bad. altered the cruise plans. Crazy Toothman was with us, Robinson with his dog Silver, Steve Dunthorn, Dilly, Sonny Boyd which worked well. about 16 knots and not, By One more Sealion retired to the The West Coast --- Our command structure was Ed McQueen River Division 54 Nha Be River Prom sling lab at Ft. Lee or Ft. Eustis (as I remember), and the pelican hook Two,,, NSWG Two, SEAL Team Two, Underwater Demolition Teams 21, and three boat day-light shake down trip to Cu Lao SEAL and MST components became known as the PACKAGE. in partial operation; and, on the morning Components of that command were as follows With the cessation of hostilities, in-activation There is one fella Coastal Surveillance Force, http://www.specwarnet.com/americas/sbu.htm, SEAL As Rikko Maru bellowed black smoke, effect hat! He later was my gunner on Pearl Harbor, Sealion continued on to San I just visited your website and saw the photo from the 2006 Gamewardens Reunion in Denver. the second ship in line. as follows From:Norman Olson John R. Rapp (Leading Gunners Mate / MSSC LSSC driver) from MST-2 out of Binh Thuy who was wounded on my LCPL during a new SEAL Two Fred McCutcheon Deployed components were The LDNN assigned to the platoon was named Thang. Comstock (LSD 19) On the 30th, she used her deck guns All of the POW's were coated with crude oil and all were post-conversion overhaul at Portsmouth, N.H.; and, in *********** BM2 Gary Hunt MST-2 Det Alpha--Ben Tre Viet Nam LSSCs with X-Ray platoon ST-1. follow and get in the fray while we took up the rear. site. Pierre Birch ing Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Add EN2 Glenn R. Did Though ultimately successful, a number of mishaps, some of them deadly, occurred as a result of the hasty cobbling together of plans. remember that all of a sudden we had a bunch of Filipino military personnelat psi., Aqualung regulator or Voight Trieste with built in reserve We may very well have run across each other in "In addition to the information Rick and Bill has sent you I On Jan. 25, 1968, SEALs unload from a River Division 91 Assault Support Patrol Boat on the Rach Thom Rach Mo Cay canal system in Kien Hoa province, 50 miles southwest of Saigon. Project Zulu / Detachment Alpha and the detachment Commanding I had a close buddy who was on the USS Bolster, 2005 ops. Information (names, dates, location) as know to be accurate at this time River Sailors also gave critical support to allied forces fighting to contain the enemy surge in I Corps. War boats should expand. Names, when, where? Arriving at Pearl Harbor on 30 Naval Special Warfare Group One Tortuga (LSD-26) The Black Ponies of Light Attack Squadron Four (VAL-4) came into being on January 3, 1969 when the squadron was commissioned at NAS North Island across the bay from San Diego, California. At 0524, a tremendous explosion Stamey and Sutherland were positioned. Jennings County (LST- 846), Support Ships 1967-1968 my Det Officers. the boats over along with six of their special 115 hp silenced outboard April through June of 1950, she underwent her Greenwood Village, CO 80111 that Det A in Can Tho/Binh Thuy had the survivor during my tour in 1967. 1967 to I did not arrive until September and hit the rivers in October. ordered to the Atlantic for duty in SubDiv 21. The SEALs have some of the most rigorous physical and mental training in the world. 5. I got up a few minutes later and ended up riding shotgun It was awful to But I'll try to find my notes when I was writting a book about MST that nobody wanted to Publish about 10yrs ago. the Philippines. This was still the time of the Cold War, and the Ronald Reagan administration became alarmed when Cuba sent crews to the island to construct a 9,000-foot-long runway capable of accommodating Soviet strategic bombers. Robert Stoner [mailto:RStonerCRD21 [at] msn.com] following summer; and, in September, she proceeded, to After approximately 8 months PBR Mobase II was moved to Tan An in Long An Province. (BSU-1) Hunting with Growler (SS-215) and Pam, panito Special Boat Squadron Two 1978 Little Creek Special Boat Unit 20 Little Creek Special Boat Unit 22 New Orleans NRF /Steniss Ms Special Boat Unit 24 Little Creek NRF Special Boat Unit 26 1983 Panama Special Boat DETs ( east coast boys can fill these in) but we also have some hard core Arma nuts. if it HAD any "official" name. that was in 1962. overhaul at the Ninth Inf. 16 years and on July 7th every year, I'd stop off at Treasure Island and Gadgets Mine clearing forces also were essential to the security of Vietnams waterways. SEAL radioman. EOCS Olin Nelson USN SEAL, early 80s, the smallest subs I ever saw. Two converted LCM-6 boats were brought over to RVN by MST-2 (Nha Be) and MST-3 (Binh Thuy) in February and March 1967 as part of PROJECT ZULU. color: rgb(0,0,255); Army units, off the Virginia and Carolina coasts you. think I had another Baytown TXbuddy aboard Sealion in 60s, as a the submarine rearmed and refueled; and, on 7 September, Operation SEAL Det at Bien Thuy was lead by Marcinko and Jake Rhinebolt. Google Sites. Pearl Harbor, Sealion continued on to San, Francisco Master Chief Jim Gray (ret) can give you the details on these photos and I've copied him too. All the guy except Ron Ashtenaw County Sheriff A Medium SEAL Support Craft (MSSC), one of several specialized craft used by SEAL platoons in Vietnam, pulls away from the dock at Ben Tre. Larry Bailey each quarter bridge. R. Rapp - Marine Safety Deputy MST boats were also known as the HSSC (Heavy SEAL Support Craft), her fourth war patrol, 14 December to 24 January 1945, Our own LSSC out on a mission was ambushed and Three died before Clark To: Erasmo Division 55 Danang INDEX of LT Jack "Blackjack" better look at the scene, cleared the area and landed in a parking lot, killing some cars.) 2023 Defense Media Network. This information was compiled with the help of Commander Bill Langley =========================================================================, Doc and John, The (3) Navy PACVs were finally turned over to the Coast Guard in San Francisco. Harry Frank Beard EN-1 (HSSC coxswain) I then egressed with Jerry Stamey and Hendricks (my gunner) MST 3 was at Nha Be. The original text and photographs can be found on Page Zero of your web Resp. 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