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Aten, Raymond Levere, LT USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Last Address Wylie TX
Date of Passing Nov 04, 2012
Location of Interment Saint Columbus Cemetery - Middletown, Rhode Island
Wylie, TX: Qualified in submarines on the USS Becuna (SS-319) in 1946 and was a LT(SC) when he left the Navy.
We regret to inform you that on Sunday November 4th at 6:20 pm Raymond Aten passed away at Baylor Hospital in Garland, Tx. He was diagnosised with acute pneumonia and congestive heart failure after being admitted on Monday October 29th 2012. Raymond fought hard with the strength he showed throughout his life and died peacefully surrounded by his family. There will be a small memorial ceremony at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Wylie Tx on Friday November 9th 2012 at 7:30 pm. We ask that instead of flowers that donations be sent to either Knights of Columbus: Lafayette Council 514 P.O Box 544 Dover, NJ 07801 or Saint Judes. Both Puline and Raymond will be enturned at St. Columba's Catholic Cementary at 55 VAUCLUSE AVENUE MIDDLETOWN RHODE ISLAND 02842 in Mid-June 2013.
Vietnam War/Consolidation II Campaign (71-72)
From Month/Year
December / 1971
To Month/Year
March / 1972
Description This Campaign was from 1 December 1971 to 29 March 1972. The allies completed the last major phase of the ACTOVLOG program in early 1972 when the Vietnamese Navy took over the former centers of American naval power in South Vietnam, the Logistic Support Bases at Nha Be, Binh Thuy, Cam Ranh Bay, and Danang. The Navy's other Vietnamization projects lasted until the total withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam in March 1973. Construction and turnover of the last of 16 coastal radar sites (one on board a station ship) was completed in August 1972. Further, COMNAVFORV erected over 4,500 shelters for Vietnamese Navy personnel and their families. American planners hoped these better living conditions would strengthen the morale of Vietnamese sailors. U.S. personnel completely restructured and streamlined the allied navy's supply system, with special attention devoted to the Naval Supply Center at Saigon. After an intensive $8 million effort with the help of American civilians, the Naval Advisory Group improved management procedures, developed a skilled work force, and modernized the industrial plant at the Saigon Naval Shipyard. By early 1972, the Vietnamese facility had finished building 58 ferrocement junks, reconditioned hundreds of newly acquired river craft, and achieved the ability to overhaul all of the Vietnamese Navy's seagoing ships in-country, a major goal of the advisory program.