I was discharged Honorably from the active Navy in July of 1969 and went active reserve stationed at the Naval Reserve Units at Gore Hill Air Station, Great Falls Montana and Swan Island Naval Station, Portland Oregon. I did a two week tour in the spring of 1970 at the Bremington Naval Station, Bremington Washington. I turned down re-enlistment and was discharged from the active reserves in February of 1971. Good by Navy and hello college and construction.
I worked as a construction electrician for 35 years. I held a Journeyman Electrician license in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming also a Masters license in Idaho. I was Electrical Instructor in the Dept. of Labor Electrical Apprenticeship program at the Salt Lake Community College for seven years. While teaching there I received my BA degree in Arts & Science in 1999, with minors in History and Political Science.
In my travels in the Navy and working construction and just being a tourist I visited all 50 states, three Canadan providences and two states in Mexico.
In 1992 I had a copy of my DD214 and there was nothing noted that I had recieved any of the medals or advancement at during my reserve time of two years or my advancement to 2nd Class Electrician. There was not any mention of me being awarded the pistol ,rifle, combat medal, cold war medal and my good conduct medals. It is though I did not exist from 1969 until 1971. BUMMER!!! I chose to show the rank of a third class petty officer because I never did wear the sholder patch (Crow) of a second class petty officer.I also reluctantly deleted my medals that were not on my DD-214.
I am retired inside wireman from the IBEW Local #354 Salt Lake City, Utah. I retired and on SS and have a retirement from the State of Utah.
I am a Master Mason and Worshipful Master of Camp Floyd Historical Lodge No 204 and my mother lodge is Uintah Lodge No. 7 F & AM Bountifull, Utah. I am Past Master of Joppa No. 26 F & AM Price, Utah. I am a Knight Templer, 32 degree Scotish Rite Mason and a Noble in the Mistic Shrine. I am also Past Worthy President of Midvale Aerie No 354 Fraternal Order of Eagles. Midvale Utah.
Other Comments:
I drove to Westport, Washington for a family reunion. We had a stop over in Portland and I had a good visit with my old shipmate Retired Chief Electrician (CB'S) Tom Corrie. We served onboard the USS Fletcher DD445.
This last February My brother David Lindseth an I made the trip to Washington to go crab fishing. We had a great time.
This summer I continued with my activities as a Civil War reinactor unit at Camp Floyd, Utah. I told those Army guys they wern't going to have all the fun. With my 1861 Union Navy uniform and now I tour telling the public how the U.S. Navy won the Civil War.
I now live in Benson AZ and I a snowbirder to the north country of Great Falls Montana.Where I am a volunteer Docent at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. It is one of the best jobs I have ever had. I love telling the Lewis and Clark story to the grade school students.
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Attack on USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
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Description USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis".
The seizure of the U.S. Navy ship and its 83 crew members, one of whom was killed in the attack, came less than a week after President Lyndon B. Johnson's "State of the Union" address to the United States Congress, just a week before the start of the "Tet Offensive" in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and only three days after 31 men of North Korea's "KPA Unit 12" had crossed the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and killed 26 South Koreans in an attempt to attack the South Korean "Blue House" (executive mansion) in the capital Seoul. The taking of Pueblo and the abuse and torture of its crew during the subsequent 11-month prisoner drama became a major Cold War incident, raising tensions between the western democracies and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and People's Republic of China.
North Korea stated that Pueblo deliberately entered their territorial waters 7.6 miles away from Ryo Island, and that the logbook shows that they intruded several times. However, the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident and that any purported evidence supplied by North Korea to support its statements was fabricated.
Pueblo, still held by North Korea today, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. Since early 2013, the ship has been moored along the Botong River in Pyongyang, and used there as a museum ship at the Pyongyang Victorious War Museum. Pueblo is the only ship of the U.S. Navy still on the commissioned roster currently being held captive.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
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Personal Memories
People You Remember The USS Fletcher was called to serve as sea guard detail duty for the USS Enterprise in the Sea of Japan, following the capture of the USS Pueblo in Feb. 1968. We had a confrontation with a Russian Cruiser a few days after we arrived in the Sea of Japan.
Memories We sailed of the coast of North Korea and I remember the mountains and how cold they looked.
