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"I was transfered to HDU San Fran in the summer of 1960 and shipped out to Pearl Harbor in Sept. 1961. I was a Radioman E-3. Bob Stackhouse. "
"In August 1962 I requested a transfer from the U.S.S. Excel MSO 439 to Inshore Undersea Warfare Group One and was assigned to team 12. I served in this unit for 18 months before being released from duty in March 1964.
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" Good morning, glad to hear from another MIUWS member. I was in unit 11 when we off loaded and went ashore in DaNang Vietnam. We were attached to the 9th marines. I guess the training we received from the marines paye'd off. We are having a reunion…"
"Well I am glad some one else knows about harbor defense. You must have left Fort Baker about the same time I was sent to begin my Navy career. I worked on the small boats until they moved the unit to Long Beach. About the only thing we seemed to do…"
"I left Fort Baker around Aug 60 and went to Training Dept because I could type. I was leaving HDU probably about the time you arrived there, August 61."
"I was stationed there from April 1960 until August 1961 first working on the small boats that were on Fort Baker than sent to the Training Department which was located in the bldg next to the Mess Hall."
I was stationed with Harbor Defense Unit 1 in San Francisco, CA. in 1961. It was located on the Army base at the presidio. It was classified as shore duty then, and in 1962 the whole outfit transferred to Mine Pac in Long beach, CA. When it…
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