{"id":63401,"date":"2015-12-19T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63401"},"modified":"2015-12-19T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T23:22:14","slug":"just-a-sea-story-from-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63401","title":{"rendered":"Just A Sea Story &#8211; From 50 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuc_blur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-63402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuc_blur-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"nuc_blur\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuc_blur-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuc_blur-242x333.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nuc_blur.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>About this time in 1965 I was on my way to the Gulf of Tonkin aboard the USS England DLG-22. I was an 18 year old E-4 &#8220;seeing the world&#8221; curtesy of Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n<p>The England was a &#8220;Double-ended&#8221; missle ship with missle launchers (Terrier anti-aircraft) fore and aft, and the only guns we had were 3 inch anti-aircraft mounts roughly amidships although we did have several Ma-Deuce rail mounted machine guns during this cruise. We also usually operated with WWII tin-can with the usual 5 inch mounts.\u00a0 It was our &#8220;shotgun&#8221; escort for some adventures over the next few months. We also did <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plane_guard\">Plane Guard <\/a>for various\u00a0 carriers as well.<\/p>\n<p>My memory being what it is the attached piece of paper does come in handy.\u00a0 Add that I ran into a Navy carrier pilot from VN at the grocery store today here on Pine Island that stirred memories and you get to read this post.<\/p>\n<p>During this trip we got fired on by shore batteries on occassion and we had to react to various threatening small craft, etc, but this isn&#8217;t intended to be exactly a &#8220;War Story&#8221;.\u00a0 More like an old movie &#8220;flash back&#8221; that I get to post about &#8211; with documentation. (Grin)<\/p>\n<p>And during later trips things were much the same, but by then it was just our job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About this time in 1965 I was on my way to the Gulf of Tonkin aboard &hellip; <a title=\"Just A Sea Story &#8211; From 50 Years Ago\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63401\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just A Sea Story &#8211; From 50 Years Ago<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}