Stockton, Robert, OSC

Operations Specialist
 
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Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Chief Petty Officer
Current/Last Primary NEC
OS-9508-Recruit/Assistant Recruit Company Commander/Recruit Instructor
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Operations Specialist
Primary Unit
1971-1974, OS-9508, HQ, RTC (Cadre/Faculty Staff) Orlando, FL
Previously Held NEC
RD-0000-Radarman
SO-0000-Sonarman
RD-9502-Instructor
RD-0334-ECM Supervisor
OS-0326-Operations Systems Specialist
Service Years
1957 - 1977
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Cold War
Order of the Horned Shellback
Order of the Magellan
OS-Operations Specialist
Five Hash Marks

 Official Badges 

Recruit Company Commander US Navy Retired 20 US Navy Honorable Discharge


 Unofficial Badges 

Order of the Shellback Order of the Golden Shellback Navy Chief Initiated Navy Chief 100 Yrs 1893-1993

Cold War Medal Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club Order of the Golden Dragon


 Military Associations and Other Affiliations
Branch 290Post 283Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW)B-Girls Reunion Association
Patrol Gunboat AssociationMilitary Writers Society of AmericaNational Chief Petty Officers Association
  2010, Fleet Reserve Association (FRA), Branch 290 (Member) (Mayport, Florida) - Chap. Page
  2011, American Legion, Post 283 (Member) (Jacksonville, Florida) - Chap. Page
  2011, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) - Assoc. Page
  2011, B-Girls Reunion Association - Assoc. Page
  2011, Patrol Gunboat Association
  2011, Military Writers Society of America
  2011, National Chief Petty Officers Association


 Additional Information
What are you doing now:

I have published my memoir, "Listening To Ghosts" (Xlibris Press, Bloomington, In.). My second book, "Fighting Bob" (Author House) and my third book "Counting Coup: The Odyssey of Captain Tom Adams" (Xlibris Press} are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books a Million on line stores or may be ordered via my website http://navypublishing.com.
The first of a series of three novellas, "Stories From the U.S. Navy: I. A Suicide in the Mediterranean"  (Dog Ear Press, Indianapolis) will be available for purchase on line as above later this year.

   
Other Comments:

Shipmates and friends are invited to surf my website: http://navypublishing.com.

   
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  1968-1968, RD-0000, USS Gallup (PG-85)

RD-Radarman

From Month/Year
January / 1968

To Month/Year
November / 1968

Unit
USS Gallup (PG-85) Unit Page

Rank
Petty Officer First Class

NEC
RD-0000-Radarman

Base, Station or City
Cam Ranh Bay

State/Country
Vietnam, South (Vietnam)
 
 
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 USS Gallup (PG-85) Details

USS Gallup (PG-85)



USS Gallup (PGM-85).jpg
Career (US)
Name: USS Gallup
Namesake: Gallup, New Mexico
Laid down: 27 April 1964
Launched: 15 June 1965
Acquired: 21 October 1966
Commissioned: 22 October 1966
Decommissioned: 31 January 1977
Struck: 9 October 1984
Motto: Have Guns Will Travel
Fate: scrapped, 2007
General characteristics
Displacement: 240 tons (full load)
Length: 165 ft (50 m)
Beam: 24 ft (7.3 m)
Draught: 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m)
Propulsion: gas turbine engines
Speed: 40 knots
Complement: 28
Armament: one 3-inch gun mount, one 40 mm mount, two .50 cal. machine guns
USS Gallup (PGM-85/PG-85) was an Asheville-class gunboat acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of high speed patrolling in shallow waterways.

The third U.S. Navy ship to be named Gallup and the second to be named for Gallup, New Mexico, was laid down 27 April 1964 by Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Inc., Tacoma, Washington; launched 15 June 1965; sponsored by Mrs. Goodwin Chase; and commissioned 22 October 1966, Lt. William T. Spane, Jr., in command.






Type
Surface Vessel
 

Parent Unit
Surface Vessels

Strength
Patrol Boat

Created/Owned By
PN Brooks, Roger, PNCS(SW) -Deceased 
   

Last Updated: Jul 24, 2017
   
   
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PG 85
RVN Meritorious Service Medal
'Listening To Ghosts' Cover
On Patrol Cap Batangan
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