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Contact Info
Home Town Brooklyn, NY
Last Address Pensacola, Escambia, Florida
Date of Passing Aug 24, 2009
Location of Interment Barrancas National Cemetery (VA) - Pensacola, Florida
Wall/Plot Coordinates Section A-22, Row C, Site 14
CDR Norman E. "Norm" Schrader, Jr
Birth: Dec. 6, 1937
Death: Aug. 24, 2009
COMMANDER NORMAN E. SCHRADER
1937-2009
Commander Norman E. Schrader Jr., USN (Ret.), "Norm", 71, of Pensacola, Florida, passed away on August 24, 2009 in Atlanta, GA., while visiting his children.
Norm, son of the late Norman, Sr. and Doris Schrader of Rochester, NY, was born on Dec. 6, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Hempstead High School in NY where he lettered in several sports, and where he recently celebrated his 50th class reunion. Norm enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1956. He received his commission and designation as a Naval Aviator in 1958. He had an extremely successful 21 year career. Highlights include serving two tours in Viet Nam as a helicopter pilot with the SEAWOLVES where he was highly decorated including two Air Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals and numerous campaign and service awards. In 1974 Norm assumed command of Helicopter Training Squadron 18 at NAS Whiting Field in Milton, Fl. Following retirement from the Navy, he was base manager and flew for Air Logistics in Venice, LA for 17 years. Norm loved the Navy, and in retirement he enjoyed serving as a volunteer at the National Museum of Naval Aviation and with the Blue Angels. He also served in the Volunteers in Public Service with the Gulf Breeze Police Department.
Headstone Inscription: "Have a great U.S. Navy day!"
Burial:
Barrancas National Cemetery
Pensacola
Escambia County
Florida, USA
Vietnam War/Tet 69 Counteroffensive Campaign
From Month/Year
February / 1969
To Month/Year
June / 1969
Description This Campaign period was from 23 February to 8 June 1969. The overall composition of the SEALORDS task force in South Vietnam reflected the growing role of the Vietnamese Navy in the war. The newly elected administration of President Richard M. Nixon formally adopted as U.S. policy the Vietnamization program early in 1969.
The naval part of that process, termed ACTOV (Accelerated Turnover to the Vietnamese), embodied the incremental transfer to Vietnam of NAVFORV's river and coastal combatant fleet and the logistic support establishment. ACTOV was more than the provision of material, however, for the Vietnamese Navy needed training in the operation, maintenance, and repair of the U.S. equipment and in the efficient functioning of the supply system. Leadership skills at all command levels required improvement as did the general morale of naval personnel before the Vietnamese Navy would be able to fight on alone.
Spearheaded by the 564 officers and men of the Naval Advisory Group early in 1969, the U.S. Navy integrated Vietnamese sailors into the crews of American ships and craft. When sufficiently trained, the Vietnamese bluejackets and officers relieved their American counterparts, who then rotated back to the United States. As entire units came under Vietnamese Navy command, control of the various SEALORDS operations passed to that naval service as well.
