My Award
I was there when one of the Helo Ships had a boiler explosion. It killed a few guysand they came outoard of us. I think it was the Iwo Jima. We feed their crew and or our crew at the same time.That was where I got my NAM. We hung out at a hotel that had a swimming pool on the top deck with a bar (of course). One our off time we made good use of the hotel. Had a bar down stairs.And wasclose to the Gold Suk.
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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.
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
Stationed aboard USS Bowen FF1079 when I made my first trip to the Gulf in 1977.