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Originally Posted by Wiregrassguy
I spent some time on a DLG target in the Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club before I submerged. Left her the year the N. Koreans shot down a PBY in international waters - 1968. Nixon sent the entire Pacific fleet, except us and a few others, to Korea. I had orders to school and was roped up to a Chinook, flown all around the Gulf, landed on a carrier, was shot off that and dropped in the Phillipines. After that, subs were no problem.  |
I was on the Enterprise at the time, we were just completing our 9 month deployment and were getting ready for some I&I in the Philippines. Went to Korea instead, we went from boiling hot to freezing cold (it seemed) in just a couple of days, lots of us got sick from the big climate change.