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All SOC were SERE qualified |
Mad Dog Evanouski SOC firing the Stoner LMG,
note oddly
enough his old Vietnam tiger stripes blend well with the
desert. |
Exercise Specter Strike 1982 SOCs used SPETAR
Target boats as indigenous craft for the exercise.
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SBU-11 SOC on San Niclolas Island. |
Zodiac at sea rendezvous with PB MKIII from
SCI SOCs Berry, Johnson, Lipe, LTJG Eberleine, Gray |
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3 SOC and ROK/UDT
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PKM, ROK/UDT interpreter SOCs Bill Lipe, and
Doc Greenough and PKM crewmembers |
a South Korean PKM the type craft SOC rode
on. |
Gray on South Korean PKM |
a ROK/ PKM combatant craft off coast at
sunset our ops mostly at night |
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SOC-13 patch made in Korea |
NSWG-1 Parent Command of of all West Coast Special
Boat Units. from Tom Cappell |
Rare patch showing all three Special Boat Units when
individuals were combined to serve as a Detachments
in P.I. and in Subic Bay starting in 1984. From Tom
Cappell |
Special Boat Squadron One deployment Patch from Tom
Cappell |
Last version of Special Boat Squadron Challenge
Coin.
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(03-10-08)
The Tactical Operations Crew (TOC) at
SBU-13 1990
by
Phil G. Garn
San Pedro Harbor was hazily quiet
at two in the morning, but not completely still. The
cabin cruiser, Crazy Baby, idled forward
gradually creeping along side an out bound coastal
tanker steaming toward the outer harbor. Inside the
old pleasure boat, a swimmer pair fixed the
anti-tampering devices to the limpet mines then
finished donning their re-breathers, drawing the
first draughts of rubber flavored air.
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SBU-12 TOC
OPERATIONS 1988-1990 by LCDR Jack Spratt ret.
SBU-12 TOC teams were staffed by the HSB crews. The
concept of TOC was to create the capability to us
Indigeous craft if necessary in a combat
environment. The use of Indigenous craft may come
from renting, buying, stealing,or working with
trusted agents. This to allow the movement of Naval
Special Warfare forces to go unnoticed and
unfettered.
We conducted training every chance we got, most of
it was using was covert or clandestine inflitration
and actual use of Civilian craft of the Coast Guard
Auxcilary. Lt Garn's story about MARDEZ90 is a great
example of SBU-12's training as well.
We never got to employ our TOC skills in Desert
Storm, although a number of abandoned indigenous
craft in Kafji, and we developed a couple of
contingency plans to use them if necessary. |
LT Jack Spratt in Operation
Desert Shield/Storm. Note his GREAT personal
unoffical OIC pin with wings on his hat.
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10-27-08 Chapman SCPO |
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SOC, Echo and Foxtrot and SEALs from
Team THREE, Exercise Bright Star Egypt |
SCPO Chapman at NSWTU Egypt |
Forward operating Base NSW Task Unit
Egypt
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Another view of the Task Unit in
Egypt |
SOC and SEALs on MTT Thailand |
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SOC in Thailand |
SOC SCPO Chapman and the Temple of
Gloom |
Me at SOC forward base camp Thailand
with SEAL Team 3 and Thai SEALs |
Loading a SEAFOX for SOC mission at
NAS Cubi Point BM1 Wells in photo |
Loading out a SEAFOX using 40K
loader Airload Planning a Must! |
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SOC SCPO Chapman Korea |
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(Added 04-31-2010) Special Warfare Craft Medium
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The Sad Saga of the Sea Brick. By
Phil G. Garn n early 1984, I was walking by the
Operations Office at Special Boat Unit 12 (SBU-12),
when Mr. Mac (then LCDR Kurt MacAlexander) said,
“Hey, Ensign, come in and take a look at this.” Mr.
Mac and Lt Keith Johnson had a number of files
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desk in the back of
the OP’s
office. Mr. Mac told me these were the contenders
for the replacement for our PB’s (65 ft Sea Specter
Mk –III Patrol Boats) and all of this was highly
confidential. There were four designs, but the one
which caught my eye was the Sea Knife.
Read this informative
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Don Goosens -
A Bit of NSW Boatguy Humor for you concerning LT
Walters and Lt Wormer who are the Best of Friends
and loved pulling jokes on each other. If anyone
remembers the Old Compound across from the Gym as
you walk thru the quarterdeck there was a Board that
showed all the Officers and what depts they belonged
too. Lt Bob Wormer was leaning over and drawing a
mustache with a grease pencil. I guess he was
concentrating some much on his art work, when the
Commodore of CSBR-1 Gary Stubblefield walked up
behind him. Lt Wormer was quite shocked to see who
it was. He got a sheepish grin and laughed and said
"it was a little practical joke "Sir!" The Commodore
leaned over and looked closely and then held out his
hand for the grease pencil, and the Commodore of
CSBR-1 drew a Goatee on Lt Walters photo and said,
"Yep, that's what was needed!"
The reason I know the details? it was my Grease
pencil, and I was standing right there with Lt
Wormer. |
Commodore CSBR-1 Gary Stubblefield |
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Foreign Weapons Training at Fort Irwin |
Training Cell at Niland 1996 |
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