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  Kevin Warner October 28, 2011 at 7:47pm

  
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  R. Kilgore October 17, 2011 at 1:12am

  http://navyvets.com/video/uss-wm-h-standley-cg-32
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  Pat Henderson September 29, 2011 at 3:31pm

     During VP-9's 1988 deplyment to the gulf, both sides in the Iran-Iraq war had been mining each other's waters. The mines often broke loose and drifted, creating considerable excitment for ships navigating those waters.

     One of our missions was to look for drifting mines during our daily low level patrols of the gulf.

     They tended to look like bright while spots on our infared equipment of the time, but at 200 feet and 200 knots, they were hard to spot.

     Netherless, spot one I did on IRDS. We managed to relocate it, mark it, then call in a surface unit to deal with it, though because of the haze we couldn't see it clearly.

     Turns out it was a bag of garbage.

     The UDT-types blew it up anyway.
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  Hector F Latorre September 20, 2011 at 7:07pm

  1980 Gonzo Station Embassy takeover, USS Constellation CV-64
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  John W. Souder July 27, 2011 at 2:08pm

  I was on USS Adroit (MSO 509) During Operation Desert Storm...January 1991...We found 38 Water Mines within our deployment...Our mission was to hunt for them using Sonar and have EOD's (Explosive Ordanance Divers) detonate each mine to ensure safe waters all the way up the Persian Gulf to the Kuwaiti Coast...
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  RICHARD COFFEY June 7, 2011 at 3:21pm

  I was station at ASU Bahrain as a crew on the CMEF C-131 at the Airport

  Done some trips there in the last few years with the Airlines that I fly for

  Never been back on Base since the change, The Island also has some face lift
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  Thomas Francis Baker June 6, 2011 at 1:20am

  Stationed aboard USS Bowen FF1079 when I made my first trip to the Gulf in 1977.

   
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  Michael Scott Richardson June 6, 2011 at 12:37am

  Served with VAQ-131 onboard U.S.S. independence CV-62 from 1980-81. Off the coast of Iran when the hostages were freed.
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  Tim Plotner June 6, 2011 at 12:34am

  onboard harry e yarnell cg-17 80-81 with the indy battle group for the iran hostage situation
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  Tim Plotner June 5, 2011 at 11:24pm

  stationed there onboard julius a furer ffg-6 escorting tankers so that they would not get fired upon by iran f-4 fighters but seen some thatgot hit any way does anybody remember the desert duck airlines for bringing in the mail ??? got a t- shirt for being on the fight deck crew