Previously Held NEC OC-Officer Candidate
110X-Unrestricted Line Officer - No Specialty Engagement
Service Years
1970 - 1994
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Order of the Antarctic Circle
Plank Owner
Cold War
Kiel Canal
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Additional Information
What are you doing now:
Retired, fly fishing, and ravel
Operation Nickel Grass (Yom Kippur War)
From Month/Year
October / 1973
To Month/Year
October / 1973
Description Operation Nickel Grass was an overt strategic airlift and operation conducted by the United States to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In a series of events that took place over 32 days, the Military Airlift Command of the U.S. Air Force shipped 22,325 tons of tanks, artillery, ammunition, and supplies in C-141 Starlifter and C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft between October 14 and November 14, 1973. The U.S. support helped ensure that Israel survived a coordinated and surprise attack from the Soviet-backed Arab Republic of Egypt and Syrian Arab Republic.
Following a U.S. pledge of support on October 19, the oil-exporting Arab states within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held to their previously declared warnings to use oil as a "weapon" and declared a complete oil embargo on the United States, and restrictions on other countries. This, and the contemporaneous failure of major pricing and production negotiations between the exporters and the major oil companies both led to the 1973 oil crisis.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
October / 1973
To Month/Year
October / 1973
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
People You Remember Newly reported as Chief Engineer aboard USS NEW (DD-818), on deployment with USS Roosevelt Battle Group in the Med. Diverted from end-of-cruise liberty port in UK, rejoined destroyer squadron to inchop back to Eastern Med to screen Amphib ARG.