{"id":73767,"date":"2017-08-03T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73767"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:59","slug":"rodney-george-clark-was-not-a-navy-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73767","title":{"rendered":"Rodney George Clark was not a Navy SEAL (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this fellow Rodney George Clark who passed recently. Here’s part of his obit<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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Rod graduated from Lewiston High School in 1966 and joined the U.S. Navy. After completing boot camp, Rod was accepted into the Navy SEAL Training Program in Coronado, Calif. Rod went to Vietnam in 1967, where he did two tours as a Special Forces Navy Seal. Among his many duties, he specialized as a frogman. After his discharge from active duty, Rod served in the Naval Reserves until 1971.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don Shipley says Rodney is not a SEAL, but it looks like he was a Navy salvage diver. His records say that he was assigned to Harbor Clearance Unit One<\/a> which was in Vietnam during the time he was there. After a year he continued with HCU-1 in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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Rod found an even deeper peace and place of belonging when the CVR (Combat Vet Riders) Motorcycle Club found him in 2005 and opened their hearts and arms to him. He knew from that day forward he would never have to look over his shoulder again. He knew his military brothers and sisters would have his back until he joined his SEAL teams again in heaven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was close to being a SEAL, but not quite.<\/p>\n

Here’s an article from while Rod was still alive<\/a> and his hometown honored him for being “the last living Navy Seal from the Vietnam War in the northwest”.<\/p>\n

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A screen shot from the video at the link of Rod’s vest;<\/p>\n

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