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"Douglas I am just now reading your post of long ago about our awards 69/70. It is my understanding that the AE - Armed Expedition force award was for a week or so we were station off the coast of Korea. I worked the flight deck then and I remember…"
"Mike Hazel: I was talking to Ray Franklin a week ago about VA 85 and our WestPac time and he brought up your name. He worked in AIMD. He lives in North Carolina now. Do you remember Rick Hannah and TC Nipper, I think they worked in AIMD too? I…"
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Ken, Thanks for the info. I received something from SecNav in the form of copy of old memo which of course, I can't find right now. I was on board for the Korean expedition cause I got the medal. Remember hearing something about it but don't recall any cold days. Or nights. I was Aviation Ordnance so I was on flight deck most of the time. Your memory is much better than mine. I am trying to get Blue Water Navy back under protection of Agent Orange Act of 1991. I believe we were all exposed to it from the air and from the water we drank, food prepared with and cold showers we took. That's my story and I'm sticking to it....
Ken, unfortunately, the only name that sounds familiar is Ray Franklin. Also, unfortunately, neither his, or your, or any of the others' pictures, are in the 1968 America cruise book, so I can't put faces to the names. Both at Oceana and on the America, I worked the night shift which made for even less contact with the rest of the Squadron's Avionics techs.
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Kenneth,
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