I was asked by my wife one day "What was I going to do today?" I said nothing.
Then she said, "But that is what you did yesterday".
And I said "I'm not finished yet"
I just got out of Intensive Care
Laissez le bon temps rouler
Order of the Silver Rose National Rifle Association
Life Member DAV
Life Member VFW
M.R.F.A Life Member
American Legion
TogetherWeServed Life Member
FYI:To those whom I have added to my shipmates list, let it be known that I add those who have or are serving where I have served, or same rating, or from Texas. To me "together we served" says it all, be it past present or future. We all have a job to do. I and my shipmates have done our parts.
Cajun
Attention:
Within my Fallen Shipmates you will find some very find hero's that gave their all, I was very privileged to serve along side them.
"REST YOUR OARS MATE's, WE HAVE THE WATCH"
Navy Cross
BMC Dutherer, Carroll
Silver Star BMC Bannister, Howard
SN Diamond, William
SN James, Marc
EN2 Little, William
HM Groshong, Allen
HM3 Davis, Blakely
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.
