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Marsh, James, PCC USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Grants Pass, Oregon
Last Address 477 Roan Drive Grants Pass, OR
Date of Passing Dec 22, 2016
Location of Interment Hawthorne Memorial Gardens - Grants Pass, Oregon
Doing my best to combat Heart Disease: CHF (Congestive Heart Disease). I'm not going to WIN this battle, but hopefully, I'll be able to keep it at bay and be around for another few years... Today's date is: 11DEC14. A point of reference.
To keep this CHF in Check, is to maintain a very strict diet and an equally check on the liquids that I take in: presently allowed 48 ounces daily. The other part is a Low Sodium Diet, try to stay under 1,500 mg. daily and NOT to exceed 2,000 mg.
I spend a lot more time in the Kitchen and a whole lot less time on the Golf Course and at the bowling alley. I miss these two pleasures. So I have replaced it with some domestic chores, Kitchen duty and also with my Fantasy Football Team, I also have really gotten into NASCAR, my favorite team is Hendrix Motors. Jeff Gorden being my favorite driver.
I continue to work at clearing out my Baseball Card Collection and also my HUGE Stamp Collection. I am giving it all to those that I feel will enjoy the hobbies as much as I did. Just mailed off three boxes of stuff to two friennds and my favorite nieces son: Dustin of Tustin (Orange County California).
I can't do much in the line of physical work, but do my best to get a 30 minute walk in about 5 days a week. Also, I have an exercise program that I work on at least 5 to seven day weekly. I also keep up with ALL my prescribed medications; I take them religiously!
Also, I have been reading from the Bible on a daily basis. When I leave this World, I am going to Heaven!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
USS Reasoner (FF 1063), 1978 in WESTPAC. Our Staff was
embarked in Reasoner a number of times during my 3 year assignment.
Other Comments:
Life continues to be good here in Southern Oregon.
Living in the country really agrees with me. We are
within 3 Dairy Farms, a Goat Farm, and two Horse
Properties. Also a lot of crops are grown within
walking distance. At one time, we had five Dairy
Farms within walking distance. They are still there,
but NOT walking distance for me anymore!!!
Vietnam War/Tet Counteroffensive Campaign (68)/ Yankee Station, North Vietnam
From Month/Year
January / 1968
To Month/Year
April / 1968
Description Yankee Station was a point in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam used by the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers of Task Force 77 to launch strikes in the Vietnam War. While its official designation was "Point Yankee," it was universally referred to as Yankee Station. Carriers conducting air operations at Yankee Station were said to be "on the line" and statistical summaries were based on days on the line.
The name derived from it being the geographic reference point "Y", pronounced "Yankee" in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In turn the term Point Yankee derived from the launch point for "Yankee Team" aerial reconnaissance missions over Laos conducted in 1964. It was located about 190 km due east of Dong Hoi, at 17° 30' N and 108° 30' E.
During the two periods of sustained air operations against North Vietnam (March 2, 1965-October 31, 1968 and March 30, 1972-December 29, 1972) there were normally three carriers on the line, each conducting air operations for twelve hours, then off for twelve hours. One of the carriers would operate from noon to midnight, another from midnight to noon, and one during daylight hours, which gave 24-hour coverage plus additional effort during daylight hours, when sorties were most effective. However at the end of May, 1972, six carriers were for a short period of time on the line at Yankee Station conducting Linebacker strikes.
The first aircraft carrier at Yankee Station was USS Kitty Hawk, which was ordered there in April 1964 for the Yankee Team missions. Kitty Hawk was joined by Ticonderoga in May and Constellation in June, two months prior to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Ticonderoga and Constellation launched the first bombing missions from Yankee Station on August 5, 1964. Constellation was also the last carrier conducting operations at Yankee Station on August 15, 1973. USS Forrestal suffered a major accident while at Yankee Station when a series of fires and explosions on her deck killed 134 men and injured another 161.
A corresponding Dixie Station in the South China Sea off the Mekong Delta was a single carrier point for conducting strikes within South Vietnam from May 15, 1965 to August 3, 1966.
