Previously Held NEC AQ-0000-Aviation Fire Control Technician
AT-6608-Aircraft Navigation Computers IMA Technician
EW-8284-Electronics Warfare Operational Intelligence Crewman
9502-Instructor
AT-8229-E6B Inflight Technician
Service Years
1989 - 2009
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Newfoundland Skreech
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Suez Canal
Operation Desert Storm
Cold War
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Additional Information
What are you doing now:
Retired in OKC and LOVING IT!!!
Operation Sea Signal (Cuba)
From Month/Year
January / 1994
To Month/Year
February / 1996
Description Operation Sea Signal was a United States Military humanitarian operation in the Caribbean in response to an influx of Cuban and Haitian migrants attempting to gain asylum in the United States. As a result, the migrants became refugees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The operation took place from August 1994 to February 1996 under Joint Task Force 160. The task force processed over 50,000 refugees as part of the operation. The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy rescued refugees from the sea and other migrants attempted to cross the landmine field that then separated the U.S. and Cuban military areas. Soldiers, Airmen, and Marines provided refugee camp security at Guantanamo Bay, and ship security on board the Coast Guard cutters. This mass exodus led to the U.S. immigration implementation of the Wet Feet Dry Feet Policy. The mass Cuban exodus of 1994 was similar to the Mariel boat lift in 1980.
