America Only wrote:
Well Sir, I was on Team 3, did my tour in Combat, later got the pleasure of being SEA BOUND to go on a few around the Worlds to the Med and Later over to the bottom of the World, have the SHELL BACK and BLUE NOSE for heading up in the "way up thar" Northern Seas, and literally have been in almost every single port you can name.....LOVED IT ALL! Learned that a Tin Can is like a large family and would not trade all that for anything else in life. One of my most remembered Captains, Edward Best....we called him, Fast Eddy.,..but that man was 100% Salt and American.....had been in the Navy for over 35 years and started out as an E-1 all the way to FULL Captain....he was the Captain of the USS Glennon, DD-840....when I was given the pleasure of meeting and serving under his Command. We did participate in some "action" during my time on that ship....and it is one thing I will always find positive, unlike flat out Combat.
Well Sir, I was on Team 3, did my tour in Combat, ... (
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Captain William McGonagle of the USS Liberty saved the ship from sinking by the Israeli attack during the 1967 war. McGonagle's medal of honor was not awarded by LBJ as is normal for the president to award the medal.