I retired 28 years as Experimental Test Driver in The Special Test Unit
with Ford Motor Company, Michigan Proving Grounds, Romeo, Mich.
Married with 3 daughters, and 3 Grandsons. The wife and I like to travel in our motorhome. We spend our summers at The Washakie Golf and RV resort in North Branch, Michigan. I love fishing for Walleye and Salmon in The Great Lakes.
I enjoy pen and ink drawing and scrimshaw on ivory when I find the time
I served on The USS NEW DD818 for 2 years went to Vietnam in 1967
put in for transfer to go back to NAM,
got on the USS WAINWRIGHT DLG 28 for 2nd tour of duty 1968
Operation Sea Dragon
From Month/Year
October / 1966
To Month/Year
November / 1968
Description Operation Sea Dragon occurred during the Vietnam War and was a series of American-led naval operations beginning in 1966 to interdict sea lines of communications and supply going south from North Vietnam to South Vietnam, and to destroy land targets with naval gunfire, as well as to give CIA officers in the area who had sited the targets room to withdraw to extraction zones. The primary purpose of Sea Dragon forces was the interception and destruction of waterborne logistic craft (WBLC), which ranged in size from large self-propelled barges down to small junks and sampans. United States Navy advisers were assigned to the South Vietnamese Navy (VNN) and American minesweepers assisted South Vietnamese Navy ships in carrying out patrols near the Demilitarized Zone. Specially modified attack helicopters were used to pursue North Vietnamese ships and disable them, leaving the ships to be boarded by American and South Vietnamese naval commandos.
