Special Boat Unit - 24
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Special Boat Unit 24
is located at Naval Amphibious Base, Little
Creek, Virginia. It is similar to Special
Boat Unit 22, it is also a Naval Reserve Unit with a small cadre of
active duty personnel. Special Boat mission is the support of
special warfare forces as well as patrol
boat tactics. Special Boat Unit 24's craft include two MKIll's and
ten SWCL's (SEAFOX).
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Provided by Frank Cumberland, written by the first
CO - SBU 24 was established as a Naval Reserve Force special
warfare boat unit composed of reserve and active duty personnel at
Little Creek, VA in late October 1978 from the riverine and some of
the coastal assets of Coastal River Squadron TWO at that location.
SBU 24's collocated sister unit, SBU 20 was formed from the
remainder of the active duty coastal and SEAL support assets of the
squadron. The reserve/active duty Coastal Squadron TWO riverine unit
based at New Orleans, LA was redesignated as SBU 22 under the
command of CDR John Foster. Naval Reserve CDR Wayne Cowie Clarke, a
non-active duty drilling reserve officer, was designated as the
first commanding officer of SBU 24 in October 1978. CDR Clarke, a
veteran of command as Commander River Division 511 and OIC Duffle
Bag Unit, Ba Xoai in South Vietnam spent the next four months along
with the sailors and officers of the newly named SBU 24 developing
the organizational structure and table of organization that would
lead to SBU 24's commissioning. In March 1979, SBU 24 was
commissioned as a naval special boat unit with CDR Clarke as its
first commanding officer, LT Michael Gorman (an active duty officer)
was the unit's Officer-in-Charge in the absence of CDR Clarke. Naval
Reserve LCDR Carrol N. Harris was the second senior officer in the
unit's chain of command and Naval Reserve LCDR Richard Fraser Moran
was the senior SEAL officer of the unit. [more follows later] |
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Magazine article from Full Mission Profile - Fall
1993 - Last Call for PB MKIII by Lt Cmdr Jeffrey P.
Stratton, USN, CO, SBU-24. Unlike the west coast Special Boat Units,
SBU-20 and SBU-24 were realigned in 1991 to be craft specific. . .
Read More Here.
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(12-08-07) Paul Holloway,
Norfolk, Va. When I got to SBU24
they had two PB MK1, two PB MKIII, a LCM-8, six MATC,
and two LCPL.. About four months later we turned the
MKIIIs over to SBU-20. The MK1 was ok but
not a MKIII if you get my drift.
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(05-05-07) Ted Walthers
I enlisted in the Naval Reserve on 3
September 1984, for the specific purpose of being in the
reserve and still going to college. Upon graduation from
boot camp (Co 313, 1984 Great Lakes), I decided to return to
my college, Wesley College in Dover, Del. to pursue my
Business Administration degree.
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03-06-07 ETC (CC) Bill
Adkins, USNR-Ret I was
stationed at Special Boat Unit (SBU) 24 at NAB Little Creek from
1983 till 1985. Our command was a Naval Reserve Facility (NRF). We
had about 60 active duty personnel but we swelled to about 240 one
weekend a month with Reservists. I was there as an active duty
sailor. My first CO was LCDR (SEAL) Tom Truxell. I was trained as
a 9533 NEC Electronics Technician on both Seafox . . .
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01/08/07
Michael Farnham On the whole [SBU-] 24
at the time was setup to be more coastal, shallow water than
riverine. I say that but know going into the early to mid 80's they
may have well made some shifts back to riverine, due to our working
in Central America, which was in direct support of SEAL efforts.
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Frank Cumberland - Do
you have any idea where all these boats can be found today? I served
at COSRIVRON2 and then at SBU 24 from 78-81 as a GMG. My first
assignment at the COS was aboard PTF-23 which was an Osprey class.
After about 3 months of work on the gun mounts and getting all the
deck stuff in order (and shooting) the decision came down to get rid
of the boat. I was then put on PBRs and such as well as Mark 1 PBs
and Mark IIIs
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