Best Friends Deployed on board Inchon with HMM 261 Mediterranean Cruise 1975 Egypt, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Majorca
Best Moment Ate Thanksgiving dinner witrh Faye Dunaway and Ben Gazara on the mess deck in Barcelona,(along with 1000 other guys) Faye Dunaway signed my Liberty Card though.
Worst Moment When the Belknap collided with the USS Kennedy. When we collided with the USNS Caloosahatchee We also had a terrible storm within 24 hrs of Morehead City, NC to offload. Caused a lot of damage and helicopters had to be craned off the ship. Storm delayed our entry into port by 2 days. Bridge on USS Mt Whitney was blown in injuring AMPHIB Task Force command personnel.
Chain of Command Brigadier General Al Gray was the MEU Commander, later he became Commandant of the Marine Corps
LT Stanley Bise HM2 Jack Magill (from Maine)
Other Memories Spent 2 months off Port Said Egypt flying SAR while HM 12 swept mines. Flew 10-12 hours/day for 2 months. Oscar was saved many times.