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A Collection of Stories and Memories by Members of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1963 A Collection of Stories and Memories by Members of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1963 Compiled and Edited by Stephen Coester '63 Dedicated to the Twenty-Eight Classmates Who Died in the Line of Duty ............ 3 Vietnam Stories ...................................................................................................... 4 SHOT DOWN OVER NORTH VIETNAM ............................................................... 4 THE VOLUNTEER ................................................................................................. 5 A MEMORABLE SONG ....................................................................................... 10 Air Raid in the Tonkin Gulf ................................................................................... 16 Lost over Vietnam ................................................................................................ 23 Through the Looking Glass .................................................................................. 27 Service In The Field Artillery ................................................................................ 32 Mike Cronin, Exemplary Graduate ....................................................................... 66 SUNK ................................................................................................................... 72 TRIDENTS in the Vietnam War ........................................................................... 76 Dick Jones' Tale of Cubi Point and Olongapo City ............................................ 102 Ken Sanger's Rescue ........................................................................................ 106 CHRISTMAS AT SEA ........................................................................................ 111 UDT/SEAL TRAINING THE REAL STORY ....................................................... 113 Motivation Week ................................................................................................ 114 Grant Telfer's Final Battle .................................................................................. 128 New Year's Deck Log USS Weiss 01/01/1969 .................................................. 141 MY SEABEE TOUR IN VIETNAM ..................................................................... 143 Jim Ring's Vietnam Experience ......................................................................... 153 Vietnam and a Nuclear Incident ......................................................................... 157 Operation Market Time 1965: The Beginning .................................................... 169 USNA63 Valor .................................................................................................... 186 Stories From the Naval Academy ...................................................................... 223 The West Point Tests ......................................................................................... 223 My Unlikely Journey to a Varsity Letter .............................................................. 228 Herndon Monument Climb ................................................................................. 231 Authenticity of Cannonball Recipe ..................................................................... 235 Submarine Supply Officer vs XO ....................................................................... 237 Most Exciting Six Minutes .................................................................................. 239 The Sinking of the USS Buttercup ..................................................................... 241 A '63 Car Tale from Dirck Praeger ..................................................................... 258 Adventures in Hitchhiking .................................................................................. 263 Over the Wall ..................................................................................................... 269 The Farm Boy Vs. the Language Department ................................................... 274 Army-Navy 1962 ................................................................................................ 278 The Weekend Liberty ......................................................................................... 282 Camping on the Shenandoah ............................................................................ 285 Mal Wright, Larry Marsh and Adm. Rickover's Picture ...................................... 297 2 Diego Garcia USO Show 1985 or So ................................................................. 300 DICK JONES, CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE KKK ................................................... 304 Carrier Torpedoed .............................................................................................. 306 Raising the Fifty Star Flag in New York City ...................................................... 311 Army-Navy Coin Toss 1962 ............................................................................... 314 Mister "B" ........................................................................................................... 318 Steve Coester's Space Stories .......................................................................... 328 A Space Shuttle Story ........................................................................................ 328 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster .................................................................... 332 Launching Apollo 11 to the Moon ...................................................................... 335 Class History: 1963 ............................................................................................ 360 2 Dedicated to the Twenty-Eight Classmates Who Died in the Line of Duty 3 Vietnam Stories SHOT DOWN OVER NORTH VIETNAM Jon Harris My Vietnam story: The USS Independence with Air Wing 7, including my new squadron, VA-72 (A-4E's) arrived at Yankee Station on July 1st, 1965, just in time for Independence Day. On my 63rd combat mission (ironically enough) on September 20, 1965, I joined six other pilots and crewmen having being shot down over the North. Two air force pilots (including the one captured by the Chinese and held in their prison until February 12, 1973) and the entire four man crew of a rescue helicopter looking for the other pilot, were captured and held as POWs for seven and a half years. The Alpha Strike I was on that day was the first major strike into Hanoi, meant to destroy a bridge running to the north as the major supply route from China. My plane was hit during the engagement, and I was forced to eject about halfway to the coast. Having been told that there was a rescue helo aboard a cruiser off the coast, I found an extraction position halfway up a mountain hiding in elephant grass, where I could see a village below, but would be able to be picked up if the helo came my way. After a couple of hours of praying and hoping, it did come my way, circled around behind the mountain (to dump my weight of fuel), was shot at by the bad guys causing the RESCAP A-1 pilot to strafe that area and quiet them down, and came to a hover while it let down the horse collar. As it began to ratchet me up, the helo had to turn out over the valley to gain airspeed, and I was dangling 500 feet or more from terra firma. Finally in the helo, we began taking taking antiaircraft fire as we approached the coast south of Haiphong. One blast was close enough to unbalance the rotor 4 blades, and the pilot had to continually press (what he later told me was) the "self-balancing" button...so it was a rough ride to the cruiser...which was at flank speed the entire two hours of the rescue heading directly toward the coast so that the helo would have enough fuel to make it back. It was later reported in the book, Alpha Strike Vietnam, by Jeffrey L. Levinson, that this was the first recovery of a pilot shot down over North Vietnam. Knowing how many friends, squadron-mates, shipmates, and classmates endured such interminable and horrendous experiences as POWs, there has always been a lingering sense of survivor's guilt mixed with the exultation of the moment and the recognition over the years that somehow those others on that day punched my ticket and let me get home. I have never forgotten. Fittingly enough, the Independence departed Yankee Station for our homeward trek on Veteran's Day, November 11, 1965. THE VOLUNTEER Ray Heins It may be little noted in other states, but Tennessee is proud to be known as the Volunteer State. Thus the University of Tennessee fields teams known as "The Volunteers". And long before I was ten years old, I was a huge fan of the Double A baseball team, the Nashville Vols. So I was fully aware, and I knew that the name came from the historic tendency of Tennesseans to volunteer for wars. Revolutionary, Civil, World - you name it, Tennessee was standing in 5 line to enlist. This awareness played no small role, I am sure, in my decision to volunteer for in-country service in Vietnam. I had been in naval service for several years before the U.S. became involved in southeast Asia. As a midshipman I was on a destroyer in Cuban waters during 1962, before the missile crisis and Blockade. Another destroyer, where I served as Communications Officer, participated in the "Quarantine" of the Dominican Republic in 1965. I was on that same ship when I heard the news of the Tonkin Gulf Incident in 1964. That incident was the effective trigger for US involvement in Vietnam. Two years later, I was joining my next destroyer as the Engineering Department
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