"Jim, I retired BMCS in 96 after I was told I wasn't medically fit for sea duty. I had the choice to stay at Bethesda Naval Hospital or since I already had over 20 in I could retire. So, I swallowed the anchor. My wife Patty and I are living in Greenville N.C. and yes, I'm still riding a Harley. Here's some photos and info for the webpage. During my time at SBU-13 I did the following deployments:
      3 deployments to Operation Earnest Will
      2 Shallow Hawk
      1 Kodiak
      1 Operation Desert Shield/Storm
      and was Command Chief for the Active Duty
 

During Operation Earnest Will a couple of PB's from SBU-13 were operating from MSB (mobile sea base) Hercules. EN2 Weber was the CHENG onboard one of these PB's. He was in the pilot house looking/playing with the FURUNO depth sounder when he noticed the silhouette of the Boghammer in approx. 152 ft. of water. The MSB Hercules was the moved to that location to recover the sunken vessel.

Desert Storm: Here is the sailing list of SBU-13 Det. Bravo dated 19 Sept 90
      BMC(SW) Pete Frede
      EN1         Mark Machado
      BM2        William Barbosa
      EN2         John Scott Jr.
      QMSN      James Mortiz III
      ETSN       Patrick Walsh
 
If you saw the series that the discovery channel did about the Navy SEALS.
Admiral Ray Smith said that 4 SEALS took down the oil rigs at the start of Desert Strom. That is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! Two of the 4 sailors that did the oil rigs came from SBU-13 and they were:
                 EN1    Mark Machado
                 QMSN James Mortiz III
                 Plus 2 SEALS

We flew over on a C-5 on this schedule: (All below time's are local)
               0530  20 Sept 90  Departed SBU-13 NAB Coronado
               0600  20 Sept 90  Arrived NAS North Island
               0730  20 Sept 90  Departed
               1500  20 Sept 90  Arrived AF Base Charleston SC
               1800  20 Sept 90  Departed
               0900  21 Sept 90  Arrived AF Base Zaraguza Spain
               1230  21 Sept 90  Departed
               2030  21 Sept 90  Arrived in country Dhahran SA
 
And we returned on a C-5  (All above time's are local)
               0745  11 Mar 91  Departed Dhahran SA
               1330  11 Mar 91  Arrived AF Base Torrejon Spain
               1730  11 Mar 91  Departed
               2000  11 Mar 91  Arrived AF Base Dover Del
               0015  12 Mar 91  Departed
               0315  12 Mar 91  Arrived NAS North Island
               0400  12 Mar 91  Departed
               0430  12 Mar 91  Arrived SBU-13 NAB Coronado
                                       Mission Complete

Some of the equipment we took with us:
              8      9MM
             18     9MM mags
              8      M-16
             22     M-16 mags
              2      M-60
              2      M-60 Barrels
              2      M-203
              2      NVG
              2      I-COM  M-120
              2      LC-90   M2-A
              2      RT-1285/APX-100
              2      Radar FURUNO-1730

Also, when we went to the desert our primary job was CSAR, but, with business being slow our mission shifted to:
                    Reconnaissance
                    Insertion/Extraction
                    BDA

Pete Frede