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This
photo was taken, as I recall, on board one of those covered Coaxain's
Boats.
This was just after i
had completed a week end working in the Torpedo Shop on the Sub Tender USS Sperry or USS Nereus.
Another Reservist
from my Submarine Reserve Unit, TM2(SS) Ruiz. I believe, snapped this photo.
He was a photographer by trade, as I recall.
He took the photo as
we were returning to shore from the tender, which was moored out in the water at
Fort Roscrans, Ballast Point Submarine Base, San Diego, California.
My
USCGR PSCS Uniform Coat
with Submarine Qualified Dolphins, service years Hash Marks,
awared Ribbons, USCG Name Tag, Port Securityman
Senior Chief
(PSCS) Chevron
PS3, PS2,
PS1, PSC, PSCS
USCG Service Stripes:
1 for each 4
years (6 years USN Sub Reserve, plus 18 years, 3 months with
USCGR
= total 24 years, 3 mo)
Here is my reserve
training boat, USS Dentuta, SS-385. on which
I studied SS qualification training in her
insides in USNR Submarine Reserve Unit 12-31 at
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard from
June 1965 until I went to SP/SG training school
there.
USS Dentuda
SS-385
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, CA
(Dentuda pulling
into Hunters Point, 1946 - Courtesy Larry
Derouin)
Dentuda was
decommissioned 11 December 1946 and stationed in
the 12th Naval District (HUNTER's POINT NAVAL
SHIPYARD) for use as a Naval Reserve Training
Boat. Dentuda was stricken and sold for scrap
February 12, 1969 to Zidell Explorations of
Portland Or. for $55,459.00 .
Note: Assigned to
JTF 1 as a test vessel for Operation
"Crossroads," Dentuda returned to Pearl Harbor
14 February 1946, and on 22 May sailed for
Bikini Atoll. She underwent both atomic weapons
tests with her crew safely away from their
submarine, and returned to Pearl Harbor 6
September. On 7 October she got underway for
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, arriving 14 October.
She was decommissioned 11 December 1946 and
stationed in the 12th Naval District for the
training of members of the Naval Reserve.
After
graduating from USN Submarine Reserve SP/SG
Submarine School at Hunter's Point, San
Francisco Naval Shipyard in the Summer of 1965.
I was assigned to attend the Basic
Electricity/Electronics Prep (BEEP) School (1600
to 0100 hrs, Monday through Friday) for 6 weeks
and Torpedoman Mate's "A" (TMA) School for 8
weeks in San Diego in 1966 as a SN(SG) -
Seaman, Submarine School Graduate.
Before going to
those schools, I got a copy of the manual, typed
in the text with a typewriter and hand drew some
of the drawings to highlight them for better
study. Here are some of them below on the
hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
After BEEP School
and TMA School completion, my designation was
TMSN(SG), Torpedoman's Mate striker, Seaman,
Submarine School Graduate. While serving on USS
Diodon (SS-349), I qualified on submarines as
TMSN(SS) and passed my 3rd class Service Wide
Exam and became TM3(SS). While aboard Diodon, I
later took the Service Wide Exam and passed the
exam for TM2(SS), but picked up the advancement
in rank after I was separated from active duty
and returned to Submarine Reserve Division
12-31.
Here is your Web-Master Qualified in Submarines as a TMSN(SS) on USS Diodon (SS-349) in
September 1967 in Hong Kong, BCC. That is an
Australian frigate's bow seen in the background.
I returned home in October
1968 from the USS Diodon (SS-349) in San Diego and USNR
Sub-Div 12-31 had closed and I was then attached to USNR
Sub-Div 12-9 at the Alameda Navy and Reserve Training
Center with the USS Parche (SS-384) there as the reserve
station boat.
After World War II, the USS
Parche served as a target ship for Operation Crossroads,
the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll. She survived both the
aerial bomb and the underwater bomb, and she underwent
decontamination before heading to Mare Island Naval
Shipyard in California. The submarine was decommissioned
on December 10, 1946, and she was reclassified as an
auxiliary submarine, AGSS-384, on December 1, 1962 to
serve as a Naval Reserve Training Submarine. She was
struck from the Naval Vessel Register on November 8,
1969 and sold for scrap on June 18, 1970. The USS Parche
received five battle stars and two Presidential Unit
Citations for her service in World War II
January 31, 2011, marks the 43rd anniversary
of the Tet Offensive, a surprise attack by
the North Vietnamese that took place on the
first day of the Vietnamese new year -- a
day that had been expected to be a quiet
religious holiday. NavyTV is airing two
episodes of the documentary series
"Virginians At War," which feature vintage
film footage taken during some of this
historic event and first-person accounts
from Virginia veterans of the Offensive.
Above is Chapter 1, click
here for Chapter 2.
Good Read Especially Vietnam Vets & Era Vets!
I am forwarding this excellent essay on
the Vietnam experience- authored by Sen. Jim Webb(D-Va.),
His contrast of the Vietnam military with the WWII
"greatest generation" military is fascinating-
especially the point that it was the 'greatest
generation' who sent us to 'Nam.
I am personally one of those vets who believed the war
was worth fighting and one which we could have won if
permitted to do so.
Heroes of the Vietnam Generation
By James Webb
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