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1 Fri January 08 2010 - 21:16:24 Fullname: Carl R. Wright Rate/Rank: Personnelman Email: cwright6818@sbcglobal.net Where are your from?: Los Angeles area Comments: Served 1962-3 on Loyalty - Westpac included operation Dominic 2 Sat March 28 2009 - 21:57:35 Fullname: Ernest M. Mathis Rate/Rank: E-4 Email: ernestmathis@bellsouth.net Where are your from?: Comments: I was an Engineman 3rd class sta- tioned at Long Beach , Ca. , pier 9 from 1967 to 1971 . I made three trips overseas . 3 Thu February 26 2009 - 01:09:12 Fullname: George Robert Aldridge Rate/Rank: HMC Email: galdridge@hughes.net Where are your from?: Fredonia, Ky Comments: medic on board for three tours of vietnan during the late 60s. 4 Thu April 03 2008 - 16:56:09 Fullname: Michael Gautreaux Rate/Rank: SO2 Email: michael_gautreaux@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Patterson,Louisiana Comments: Served on Loyalty 1961-62 5 Sat March 08 2008 - 18:41:38 Fullname: Phillip Brouillet "Frenchy" Rate/Rank: EN3 Email: pjbrouillet@msn.com Where are your from?: Originaly Iowa, now Minnesota Comments: Served on the USS Loyalty from early 1960 to April 1962. Stood at sea watch on leehelm in pilot house. Some crew members that come to mind: Clifford Pangallo, Peavy, Fergeson, Rodgers, Spaulding, St.Clair, and many others whos names escape now. 6 Sun August 05 2007 - 22:46:18 Fullname: W. W. "Mike" Warren Rate/Rank: EN2 Email: usslucid@usslucid.org Where are your from?: Bradford Island, California Comments: Members of the minesweeping community; The Lucid MSO-458 Foundation was formed by a group of minesweeper crewmen who served aboard US Navy MSO's. MSO's are a class of wooden hull oceangoing minesweepers that are now decommissioned and fading from public memory. The group has obtained the USS Lucid MSO-458 and has her docked at Bradford Island, California. Work has begun! The organization is restoring her and a public museum is established. The MSO is a little known and poorly documented, extremely interesting facet of Naval history. The USS Lucid Museum is dedicated to telling the story of the minesweeping men and their wooden ships, the last all wooden US Naval ships, to navigate the oceans. We will be telling the stories of Mine Recovery and UDT teams, Floating Pigs, Hammer Boxes, Magtails, Aluminum Engines and Towed Sonar. The little known stories of Contact, Magnetic and Acoustic minesweeping as well as the mystery of Magnetic Countermeasures will be told through the displays, narratives and museum media. Typhoons, tiny ships and ice-clad superstructures are only a small part of the "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" story. From sweeping the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam, observing the final Nuclear blasts on Johnston Island to sweeping the Persian Gulf, "Where the Fleet Goes, We've Been" will be clearly illustrated. Since there is no other Naval Museum that even attempts to tell the story of the MSO the USS Lucid is an important and living detail of US Naval History. First, Lucid must undergo a restoration. Previous civilian owners for commercial use have modified her. She needs hull repairs and painting and re-outfitting to be brought back to her former Naval dignity and glory. The Lucid MSO-458 Foundation has a workforce of planners, engineers and volunteer manpower who are vested and committed to this grand and worthy project. Bringing her to life is a large financial undertaking. We’re looking for tax-exempt gifts from the Military Industrial sector and individuals to help with this extremely valuable endeavor. Of course, all donors will be properly and prominently acknowledged aboard the vessel. Your donation will help preserve this vital part of Naval History. Please join us in telling the MSO story by sending a tax-exempt gift to Lucid MSO-458 Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit foundation through our website. http://www.usslucid.org 7 Thu August 02 2007 - 02:21:04 Fullname: Kenneth E Davison Rate/Rank: DC1-DC2 Email: kdavretired@comcast.net Where are your from?: Missouri Comments: left Loyalty went to Viet-Nam retired 1973 still kicking have travel trailer go camping 8 Thu June 21 2007 - 19:18:00 Fullname: robert a. mizer Rate/Rank: rm2 Email: bobandsuex1@netzero.net Where are your from?: ohio Comments: 9 Mon June 11 2007 - 12:12:56 Fullname: Carmen Corgliano Rate/Rank: SN-BM3 Email: boats3rd@gmail.com Where are your from?: Phila. Pa Comments: Served aboard Loyalty from 1968-69, have some good memories. Went on to serve in Cat Low Viet Nam with Inshore Undersea Warfare Group 1. 10 Fri June 08 2007 - 10:05:46 Fullname: Thomas (TJ) Johnson Rate/Rank: ETR3 Email: Tjdolp@aol.com Where are your from?: Sioux City Iowa Comments: Served on Loyalty 1971-1972 1 2 3
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