
- BUDWEISER :
-
NICKNAME for the "Trident" SEAL
qualification badge, formally called the Special Warfare Badge, which was
adopted in 1971; as derived from reference to both the basic school, and to
design similarity with the "Budweiser" beer logo. The Basic
Underwater Demolition School (BUDS) is the preliminary training for SEAL
specializations; so the name is a play on words: BUDS + wiser. The TRIDENT
incorporates the original UDT badge as its central motif; both badges were
initially partitioned silver for EM/NCO and gold for OFFICER, but later
combined into a single gold badge for all ranks. See SEAL, SCUBA, UDT, NSWG,
DIVER, BLOODING. [nb: 'Budweis' is the German name for a Czech (Bohemia and
Moravia) town]


A UDT-SEAL Assn. Plank Owner's Card

Bob
Thomas



click to enlarge photo

Class 89
Are you glad you missed the Vietnam War Games? Making LOVE
& WAR!
|
Petty Officer R.J. Thomas |
Combat Experience with the .45 ACP
Oft times, comments on this net are about GySgt. Carlos Hathcock’s
sniping adventures in Vietnam. Here’s one that very few know about, but
is probably just as good as far as accuracy during combat is concerned.
A Navy SEAL Team was returning from a mission over North Vietnam in a
chopper when it got hit pretty bad. The pilot and one crew member were
killed and the copilot was wounded. Going into autorotation, the copilot
managed to set the chopper down in a clearing. After landing, a few rounds
of enemy fire were starting to come in. Seems the M60s were also damaged
beyond use by the crash landing and initial RPG hit, the only M16 fell out
on the way down.
The only firearms left was M1911s.The remaining crew member was
carrying a match conditioned M1911 and had a few boxes of ammo. As more
enemy small arms fire started coming in, the copilot and crew member also
noted that the VC were coming out of the jungle and approaching them;
shooting as they came. The crew member took out his .45 and took careful
aim as he shot at each attacking VC. About 30 minutes later it was all
over. Between reloading magazines and radioing for rescue, the copilot was
pretty busy, but a rescue chopper finally arrived on the scene.
As the rescue chopper came in and landed, its crew noticed a lot of
dead VC laying around. The downed helo’s remaining crew were picked up
and on their way out, they counted the dead VC; 37 in all. Their distances
from the downed helo were from 3 to about 150 yards; all shot by the crew
member with his M1911 .45 ACP. About 80 rounds were fired by Petty Officer
R.J. Thomas, a member of the USN Rifle and Pistol Team.
Petty Officer Thomas was recommended for the
Congressional Medal of Honor, but by the time the
recommendation got all the way up through the chain of command, the
recognition was reduced to the Navy Cross.
This incident has been cited this as the only known of example of
top-level combat marksmanship since SGT Alvin York’s escapades in WWI.
Submitted by Mark Eberhard-CEO & President
LtCol. USMCR (Ret.)
American Marksman GroupA
(850) 626-9963
http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/legends/rjthomas.htm |


I believe this
one was at Vinh Long USArmy Camp




Ft. Benning GA, Basic AIrborne Training the 200 ft. towers



THE OLD OUTFIT
"Written By a World War Two
Sailor."
Come gather round me lads and I'll tell
you a thing or two,
about the way we ran the Navy in nineteen forty two.
When wooden ships and iron men were barely
out of sight,
I am going to give you some facts just to set the record right.
We wore the ole bell bottoms, with a flat
hat on our head,
and we always hit the sack at night. We never "went to bed."
Our uniforms were worn ashore, and we were
mighty proud.
Never thought of wearing civvies, in fact they were not allowed.
Now, when a ship puts out to sea. I'll
tell you son, it hurts!
When suddenly you notice that half the crew's wearing skirts.
And it's hard for me to imagine, a female
boatswains mate,
stopping on the Quarter deck to make sure her stockings are straight.
What happened to the KiYi brush, and the
old salt-water bath?
Holy stoning decks at night, cause you stirred old Bosn's wrath!
We always had our gedunk stand and lots of
pogey bait.
And it always took a hitch or two, just to make a rate.
In your seabag all your skivvies, were
neatly stopped and rolled.
And the blankets on your sack had better have a three-inch fold.
Your little ditty bag . . it is hard to
believe just how much it held,and you wouldn't go ashore with pants that hadn't
been spiked and belled.
We had scullery maids and succotash and
good old S.O.S.
And when you felt like topping off, you headed for the mess.
Oh we had our belly robbers, but there
weren't too many gripes.
For the deck apes were never hungry and there were no starving snipes.
Now, you never hear of Davey Jones,
Shellbacks or Polliwogs,
and you never splice the mainbrace to receive your daily grog.
Now you never have to dog a watch or stand
the main event.
You even tie your lines today; back in my time they were bent.
We were all two-fisted drinkers and no one
thought you sinned,
if you staggered back aboard your ship, three sheets to the wind.
And with just a couple hours of sleep you
regained your usual luster.Bright eyed and bushy tailed, you still made morning
muster.
Rocks and shoals have long since gone, and
now it's U.C.M.J.
Back then the old man handled everything if you should go astray.
Now they steer the ships with dials, and I
wouldn't be surprised,
if some day they sailed the damned things from the beach, computerized.
So when my earthly hitch is over, and the
good Lord picks the best,
I'll walk right up to Him and say, "Sir, I have but one request.
Let me sail the seas of Heaven in a coat
of Navy blue.
Like I did so long ago on earth, way back in forty two."
Erasmo
"Doc"
Riojas joined the U.S.Navy in 1948
























Randy (son) Robert D. Russel (father)
Roy,
Thank you for your response on what I
found on the WWW about the birth of USNavy SEALs. I did not save what I
forwarded you, so that is the reason is not posted here. Thank you
very much for the letter, above, and the two followup emails ,below.
Erasmo "Doc" Riojas
BUD/S class (zero,nada)

Doc,
I did not sell president Kennedy on the idea It was Bill Hamilton the
Skipper of UDT 21. He ordered me to give him a group of men that would go
anyplace and do anything. He asked me if I could assemble this group from UDT
21; I told him it was the perfect place to do it. We served Mc George Bundy
Special assistant to the President for National Security. Attached is National
Security Memorandum No 2 Our first operation started in the end of March 1961,
and continued throughout the year prior to the creation and commisioning of what
would later become the SEAL's
Roy Boehm

Doc,
I have
nothing against the truth It was our skipper Bill Hamilton That had the know
how and the connections to present the idea we had talked about and he and
Doug Fane had talked about years ago. I kaboshed the movie because they
were going to have the President crediting me . You can use anything I
say. I don't think it makes any difference. The men know what happened and
when; a long time before the argument of three hours between east and
west coast times.










The two great women that have "canned" me. The last one is
the charm.





Walking
in a canal, 'nam war
game
I was forced to leave this chushy duty to go to the the
F.M.F. Korea. Thanks to Pres.Harry Truman Truman!

The
USNavy National Naval Medical Center,Bethesda MD. This is where I was stationed



We used this
Sanpan also to chase VC Tax collectors. That is Chuck Jessie, Tuan LDNN,
and Erasmo "Doc" Riojas doing the maintenance on it. One of the
LDNN dressed as a civilian did the driving. Roy Dean Matthews asked me in
the year 2007 if I was ever scared riding inside this sanpan. The gospel
truth! I was scared shitless. It was because we are in side that
plywood enclosure and cannot see what the heck is going on. Plywood is not
bulletproof !





this book and other SEAL books are on sale on amazon.com for $0.01 plus
shipping. Yes, ONE cent !
June 2008: I am presently writing a book about my military experience in
the Korean Police Action as a FMF Corpsman with an infantry platoon, and also
my tours to the Vietnam war games as a U.S. Navy SEAL. I am sure my
book will be for sale in Amazon.com for the same price.












"Hey! Be Careful!" You wanna be
Careful? Go join the Coast Guard!




"The Shark at UWSS Key West FL"
constructed by YNCS (DV)(PJ)(SS) Dow Byers (RIP). 1967. Ernie Caltenback, Master
Diver, was wrapped in casting cloth for the mold. The face was byers, the hands
were his wife's Annice Byers. The shark is now atop the Diving Locker at
the Naval Base, San Diego CA.

Rich Young
http://www.nightscribe.com/Military/SEALs/seals.htm
SEAL stuff!

About Vietnamese Rats
Doc Rio wrote: asking if the below SEASTORY is true or false
Si Amigo , it is TRUE;
Kaloki Dave was the LPO of golf PLt. Mar -August 1970 at SeaFloat
; I do remember the Movie Rat account.
All the best ; Kaloki Dave Bodkin
SEASTORY:
Dale Moses, CAPT USN (ret) EMAIL: DALEMOSES [at
a ol.com : As a LT survived watching movies
on Seafloat. After dark at SeaFloat, the crew would show flicks on
a movie screen that was a sheet thrown over a line tied between two of
the hootches on the floats. You could watch the flick from either side
of the screen. In those days (June 1970) there were lots of SEALs that
hung out there. One night we had just started watching a flick and a rat
ran across the rope holding up the sheet. One of the SEALs pulled out a
pistol and tried to shoot the rat not realizing - correction, not being
too bright - that there were Americans sitting on the other side of the
rope and screen. The SEAL missed the rat and fortunately also missed his
shipmates. But I never felt the same watching flicks there again.
[I was a US advisor on a Vietnamese Navy LSSL that patrolled during the
day, and the VN CO and I would come to SeaFloat forthe nightly ops brief
on a small junk that would pick us up.)
READ the below story from :brownwater-navy.com/vietnam/Seafloat.htm
THE RATS Waking to some of the bluest language the Vietnamase ever
come up with, I blearily looked around and saw that what looked like
huge snakes were boarding us along the tie lines to the LSSL. They were
cutting the lines with machetes! I cleared my vision and saw that the
"snakes" werebunched up, pushing, throbbing lines of rats.
They had already pretty well covered the main deck of my boat and were
moving on to the other PCFs lashed up to us on the other side. After the
lines were cut, the rats were leaping into the water off the LSSL--they
just didn't seem to care and there were LOTS of them. We were slowly
spinning around with the other boats and we had to wake up all the other
crews and get them to start their engines and unhook from each other.
The PCFs all moved over to a large barge and tied up to it. We went back
to sleep except for guards on the end boats. |

USNS
Weigel, Doc Riojas' first seaduty as USMC Troop coming home from Korea.

For Example search for John F. Rabbitt
or Me








Lt. Jason Redman, US Navy SEAL,
ST-10
By John T. Vigiano
This is the story of how a bunch of New York City Firefighters met and
“partnered†up with SEAL Team TEN. This began with
a trip to
Bethesda
Naval
Hospital
back in October 2007. As we were making the rounds of the ward, we came upon a
sign hanging from one of the patient's door. You could not help but realize that
inside that room was an incredible human being; a man who gave part of himself
to make this country what it is.
This is the sign we saw:

I immediately took a photo of this and we asked if we could meet this young
man (Lt. Jason Redman, US Navy SEAL). The corpsman escort entered first and
asked the warrior if he would meet with us (usual procedure) Needless to say,
his response was affirmative. When we entered the room, this young man was
standing there , .. hanging from him were a maze of tubes and other medical
contraptions which to a normal person would mean "stay in bed", Jay
greeted us like brothers and began a conversation about
New York
, Firefighters, and SEALs being bonded. We stayed as long as we were permitted,
and left. All day long we spoke the attitude of that young man. A few days
later, a friend was going down to visit the troops ... I asked her to visit this
young man and to ask him if he would allow us to "adopt" his team, My
friend did meet Jay and relayed my request. It was then I found out there were
200 people in the Team. Undaunted, I said "not a problem," but I knew
I had to come up with 200 hats, tee shirts and patches from somewhere. A few
days later, I received an email from Jay's CO, CDR Robert "Gus"
Gusentine and we communicated back and forth discussing this partnership (SEALs
are not adopted).
Webmaster's note: They all met and visited three FDNY
firestations and the entire ST-10 got hats and T shirts. article from The
BLAST 3d quarter 2008. Vol.40, No.3

Let's Be Worthy of THeir Sacrifice
'The wounds I received I got in a job I love.'
By KARL ROVE
This holiday season, home in Texas and surrounded by
close friends and family, I often found myself thinking about virtual
strangers.
Corbis
A Navy Seal at work in Afghanistan.
I met them this fall when I spoke at the Naval Special
Warfare Foundation (NSWF) dinner. The NSWF supports naval commandoes with
scholarships and assistance for families of Navy SEALs killed or wounded
in combat or training.
During my White House years, I came to know of the
heroic actions of the Seals and other special operators in the global war
on terror. These men willingly follow evil into dark and perilous places.
They volunteered to be on the front edge of the conflict whose outcome
will shape this century.
The highlight of the NSWF dinner was a video of
"snatch and grab" operations in Afghanistan. It showed
helicopters lifting off to pounding music, night footage of Seals jumping
onto roofs and rappelling into dusty fields, the breathtakingly
destructive power of American missiles and machine guns, and compound
doors blowing open and terrorist suspects being rounded up.
The Seals who prepared the video had carefully mined
President Bush's speeches, using his voice and words as narration. I was
touched by this and knew the president would be, too. So when I met the
Seal who'd produced the video, we exchanged email addresses. Later, before
he left for Afghanistan for his umpteenth deployment, I asked for a copy
of the video to show the president.
He was happy to supply one but had a request in return.
Could the wives and children of his unit's members see the White House
Christmas decorations while their husbands and fathers were deployed?
The First Lady readily agreed and with NSWF's help, 75
Seal family members were greeted at the White House just before Christmas
by the president and Laura Bush. It was one of the high points of Mr.
Bush's last holiday in Washington.
On Christmas Eve, I received an email from Afghanistan,
with thanks for helping to facilitate the tour. Attached was a picture of
the videographer and his team, ready for that night's mission. Bearded and
scruffy, covered with weapons and standing in a rude shelter, they were
all wearing bright red Santa Claus hats. It was the best gift I received
this Christmas.
I met another Seal at that NSWF dinner. He'd been shot
eight times in Iraq and had undergone nearly two-dozen operations. One
bullet had taken off part of his cheek and nose. He was destined for
reconstructive surgery in a few days.
Yet he didn't feel sorry for himself. He was full of
charisma, confidence, cockiness and joy. After all, he confided, when
you're a wounded Seal, the world's best doctors want to operate on you so
they can brag about it. Besides, he explained, he was just showing that a
Seal really could catch bullets with his teeth.
He said that after a couple more procedures, he'd
"be back in the game." I asked what he meant. He was amused and
said he was going back into action. "My team needs me," he said
before letting out a laugh. But you knew he meant it, and you knew his
team did need him.
He went off to get a drink for his wife. I didn't want
to pry, but I asked her how she felt about him going back into action. She
said she was all for it because that's what he was made for. I had to
fight back tears.
The next day, I got an email from the retired Navy Seal
buddy who'd talked me into speaking at NSWF. He shared a picture of the
sign the wounded Seal put on his Baghdad hospital door.
On it, the Seal had scrawled that visitors shouldn't
"feel sorry" for him. "The wounds I received," he
wrote, "I got in a job I love, doing it for people I love, supporting
the freedom of a country I deeply love. I am incredibly tough." And
on his sign he promised "a full recovery" and wrote that his
hospital room was a place of "fun, optimism, and intense rapid
regrowth. If you are not prepared for that, GO ELSEWHERE." He signed
it "The Management."
I keep this picture with me so I think every day about
those I met this fall. And I thought about them often during the holidays.
When I did, I felt awe that such men and women exist,
and gratitude that they put themselves in harm's way for our nation. I
hope America continues to be worthy of such staggering service and
sacrifice.
May the New Year bring safety to all who wear our
country's uniform, success in the missions they so passionately believe
in, peace and comfort to their families, and reunion with all whom they
love.
Mr. Rove is the former senior adviser and deputy
chief of staff to President George W. Bush. NSWF can be found at
nswfoundation.org.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085828475347775.html
|








Classic Frogmen and
Dive Books
To Kill an American
by: Australian Dentist.
To Kill an American You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but
there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a
newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone
know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one,
mate!)
"An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African,
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or
Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache,
Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In
fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference
is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only
to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the
government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The
root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which
recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation
in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.
When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came
with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!
As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other
nation to the poor in Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best of
everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food,
the best services. But they also welcome the least.
The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and
your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest
tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, 2001
earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade
Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first
languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo,
and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But,
in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a
particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human
spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an
American.


This
is the Casket of SEAL Petty Officer James
SHU of SDV Team ONE, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles CA, summer of 2005.
data by Tom Hawkins
Webmaster's NOTE:
This tradition started when Jerry Waters, ST-2, diet in a parachuting accident
at Suffolk VA. in Nov. 1971. Jerry was the first SEAL to die
from ST-2 after the "Bud" was approved and the SEALs that attended his
funeral at Savannah, GA thought it was the right thing to do to place their
"BUDs" on top of Jerry's casket before it was
lowered. Doc Riojas(webmaster)
story by Capt. Ryan Mc Combie (SEAL)
(Ret) USN.
|
Matthew
G. Axelson
|
June 28 |
SDVT-1 |
|
Danny
P. Dietz
|
June 28 |
SDVT-2 |
|
Michael
P. Murphy
|
June 28 |
SDVT-1 |
| The three SEALs named above were
part of a four-man reconnaissance team that clandestinely infiltrated into
the Hindu-Kush mountains along the border with Afghanistan on June 27,
2005. The squad was reportedly tracking a high-ranking al-Qaeda leader
when they were ambushed by overwhelming Taliban forces with superior
firepower. The three SEALs provided protective fire for a fourth member in
their squad to escape, before they were killed by enemy fire. One
SEAL, HM1(SEAL)
Marcus Luttrell survived this "OP", and was later
rescued. Doc Luttrell wrote a book titled "LONE
SURVIVOR" which was on best sellers list for a very long time. |
| The eight SEALs named below were on a
combat rescue mission to reinforce a SEAL squad (above) which had been
ambushed and was engaged in a fierce firefight with overwhelming Taliban
forces. The eight SEALs were killed along with eight Army
“Nightstalker†commandos when the MH-47 helicopter that all were
aboard was shot down and crashed in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. (Full
story…) |
|
Jacques
J. Fontan
|
June 28, 2005 |
ST-10 |
|
Daniel
R. Healy
|
June 28, 2005 |
SDVT-1 |
|
Erik
S. Kristensen
|
June 28, 2005 |
ST-10 |
|
Jeffrey
A. Lucas
|
June 28, 2005 |
ST-10 |
|
Michael
M. McGreevy, Jr
|
June 28, 2005 |
ST-10 |
|
Shane
E. Patton
|
June 28, 2005 |
SDVT-1 |
|
James
Suh
|
June 28, 2005 |
SDVT-1 |
|
Jeffrey
S. Taylor
|
June 28, 2005 |
ST-10 |


USS
NEW YORK

I
had this made when I was working in the Texas Dept of Corrections in two of
their Prisons. I was known as "Dr. Death" aka: Doc
Riojas

SEALS Hydro Track for treatment of injureis
Roy
Dean Matthews foot on the right

Dow Byers son, Dr. David Byers receiving
award as the youngest man ever to
complete
UWSS school. David is the son of Dow Byers YNCS.

US spec-ops "Snake-eaters SEALs"
$200m porta-drone deal
By Lewis Page → Published
Tuesday 8th July 2008
The US Special Operations Command, SOCOM - aka
the "snake eater community"* - has just placed a
new order for hand-launched aerial surveillance robots which could be
worth up to $200m and see hundreds of portable drones delivered.
Go to the below link for the full article.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/08/aerovironment_puma_deal_socom/
WEBMASTER's email to the troops:
In 1968, I ate a water mocassin that Chief Jim Tipton brought back
from AP hill.
Richard Marcinko ate the venom of a cobra in Tailand, I forgot if he ate
the snake also.
NOW, we are all the "SNAKE EATER COMMUNITY" according
the above article.
I would like to hear some stories for my web site of other guys eating
snakes.
I remember Fred Toothman, up north , on E&E school found several new
born snakes under a rock, but they stunk so bad he had to shitcan his
gloves after picking one up. We did not eat them.
Erasmo "Doc" Riojas
BTW: We also chewed our beer glasses
and ate the glass !

From: nseal1 [at] cox.net
To: "Doc Riojas" <docrio45 [at] gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Subject: Re: The US Special Operations Command, SOCOM - aka the
"snake eater community"*
Hey Doc!
Frank Toms and I caught and ate a snake at Widbey Isl.
SERE school back in '64. Tasted good too!
Bruce Russell WC29
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From: Steve Robinson
To: 'Doc Riojas'
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Subject:The US Special Operations Command, SOCOM - aka the "snake
eater community"*
Rio,
When I was going through cadre training out at Niland we nailed a big
rattlesnake with a shovel… skinned it (I
wore the dried skin on a headband for years afterward) and cooked it up.
We’d washed the meat really well, then rolled
pieces in egg, followed by rolling them in flour and
crumbled breakfast cereal (wheaties I think). Then we fried it up in
cooking oil. Damned tasty! And it had all of
us watching closely for more snakes so we could get another taste…
but apparently word got around in the snake community
because no others showed up during the 3
weeks we were out there.
Steve Robinson
2nd email from Steve:

Rio,
Attached
is a picture I took of our Niland snack food. John Balentyne (with
shovel) and Dan Jurman while we were going through cadre training at
Niland. John was going for the “big game hunter†look so he put his
foot on the kill… and the headless body flexed over against his shoe.
We
had gotten a bigger snake about 3 or 4 days earlier – a big pregnant
female. It was very lethargic and there was no difficulty in nailing it
with a length of 2x4. We cut the head off and buried it… then started
skinning the snake and found 2 unborn baby snakes inside. We found a red
ant anthill and left the babies there… and the skinned snake went to
one of the other Team guys who were working as instructors. That’s
when we learned they could be really tasty. So when the next one showed
up, Balentyne nailed it with a shovel. As noted, it was cleaned, cooked,
and most of us got a nibble. I guess the word got around the snake
community, because after that we couldn’t find another snake anywhere!
Tarantulas? Sure! Scorpions? Oh yeah! Ants? Plenty! Snakes? Not a one
anywhere to be found!
Steve

From: Larry Bailey To: Doc Riojas Sent: Wednesday, July 09,2008 Subject: The US Special Operations Command, SOCOM - aka the "snake eater community"*
Once upon a time my squad caught a water moccasin at Seashore State Park in Virginia Beach, where we were conducting patrol training. We built a small fire and cooked the critter over a flame on a spit. Then I tried to eat him, but he wasn't too tasty. That's the only time I've ever tried to eat a snake.
Larry Bailey
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From: Roger GUERRA To: Doc Riojas Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Subject:The US Special Operations Command, SOCOM - aka the "snake eater community"*
That's funny, I used to eat snake regularly (rattlesnake) after I left the teams. Really good if cooked properly. Went to a Bar-b-que in south Texas and had it there. Sweetwater, Texas has a good sampling during the round
up!
Si, senor, I am crazy! Roger
Guerra
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Webmaster's
note: Curtis Ashton, KIA 'nam, was
from Sweetwater TX. He talked about those Yearly Rattlesnake
Roundups. I bet he was also a SNAKEATER!
Doc Riojas

From: rrpopseal@bellsouth.net To: Doc Riojas ; al hale Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Subject: Re: The US Special Operations Command, SOCOM - aka the "snake eater community"*
Never eat a snake, but one crawled up my pants while our fire team was on listening post in Viet Nam. The ensuing struggle between me and my "guest" nearly got me and two buddies in the shell hole where we were hiding, killed. When the sun came up, there were a couple of M16s, an M79, and one M60 aimed at us. The rest of Kilo Platoon (first Kilo circa '67) didn't know what it was all about and thought VC had found us.
I am Ron Kelmell....class 35, 1965, Coronado...UDT-11 and Seal Team One.....just retired from a four year "cruise" with Blackwater Security...enclosed is a pix directly from my "I love me"
collection. Between Viet Nam and BW (28 years), I was a pastor of small conservative churches of the Baptist
variety. Ron Kelmell
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Very
tiny mouth. He cannot strike like a viper, but has to nibble
at the webs between your fingers. 3d most poisonous
snake. Webmaster's
note: I was with Mr. Hardy, and Chicken
McNair on "The Big Blow Job." While we were laying the
MKVIII hose in the "tee-tee" canal, some of us had to take
our hand and push away the little Crate Snakes. After setting
off the MKVIII hose demolition at the end of the day, there were thousands of
slithering little black/white bellied snakes wiggling around in the
mud. No one was hurt by them.
Doc Riojas * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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From: mike baumgart Hey Doc, Twas' Chicken Mcnair, Mike Radice, Walt Weed, Walt Harvey/Jerry Howard (OIC change) and me. I never knew for sure how Zelmo got burned...just that he did. I smuggled a 6' Burmese Python back...through Hawaii...in my field jacket. Kept him until I went over again in 1971. Named him after the famous animal actor on Green Acres ... Arnold ...
Ziffle. Mike

Webmaster (Doc Rio):
I was with you guys only about one week. What UDT
Team was it? Do you remember the
biggest shot, I went way out out far away rice paddy with the
photographer to try and capture the entire shot on movie film.
Two Cobras came by doing a lookee-see. I had a PRC-25, I
called Mr. Harvey and told him to try and reach the cobras as they
were probably going to make a firing run on moi and the
photographer. He was setting up this tripod with this huge
movie camera looks from the air like a weapon. We are in
bathing suits with rags tied to our heads, and I do look like a VC,
not like the white eyes photographer. I was right and
the Cobras told Mr. Harvey they were going to fry us.Mr.
Harvey wrote everyone up for medals, even me, but CDR O'Drain
cancelled mine. Do you remember? Did
you guys get a copy of those movies? I would like to see
it. Doc Riojas
From: mike baumgart
To: Doc Riojas
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Subject: SNAKE story emails that I have received today
Doc,
Does anyone remember "Zelmo" from Nha
Bhe? He lived behind one of the quonset huts...in his cage.
Mike
Webmaster's NOTE:
Yeah, Glasscock
lives in Rockwell (?) TX. he came to
one of our Gulfcoast parties. I have
a photo of ZELMO on one of my pages. I
cured him of his severe neck burns after the PBR sailor tried to
kill zelmo for eating his kitty. Jim
brought him to Saigon and left zelmo with me to cure and he said he
would come back on the next platoon. He never did,
I left 'nam in Nov 1970 and took zelmo back
to nha be. I never heard
of zelmo again.
who were the guys
in that platoon?
Rio
Zelmo and doc Rio at Hotel LeLei
'Nam
From: eugenio crescini To: Doc Riojas ;
rrpopseal [at] bellsouth.net Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 Subject: SNAKE story emails that I have received today
my platoon occupied 2nd d, eck of a barracks in RSSZ, Nam. 'mud Zmuda and I ocuppied a room. mud's bunk was against one side of the room and mine the other. my squad had just returned from an ops(0300). I was so tired, took my clothes off and hit the sack. mud was still out with his squad. it was only a couple of minutes when I heard rustling on my wall. I turned around to check what the noise was all about. right in front of my face(my nose was touching a big snake). it was climbing the wall. believe me...I must have established a World's Record in the Long Jump from a laying down position to the door. it was a 10ft+ phyton, which Pierson(one of my men)have in his room(caged).
I grabbed my weapon to shoot it, but quickly change my mind(shots from a SEAL barracks might create General Quarters. looking for something to kill it, I finally found a straw broom our mama san use to clean the place, beating and sweeping the snake out the room, more beating and sweeping it out the barracks. the commotions Pierson and saw me swept his snake outside. after some searching, he got his pet back. after a few days past, I asked him about his snake. he said that it is not eating..it has a broken
jaw. "Pancho" Crescini

Mike
Snake Macready 49wc
Snake was in platoon pre-deployment Vietnam training in the summer heat
of the Cuyamaca Mountains near San Diego. They were learning the trade
skills that have allowed all of us to succeed where others fail. This
training area was not for live fire, but only for tactical training
because it was sparsely inhabited by the local civilians who had given
permission to be there.
That summer, the area had experienced an infestation of rattlesnakes.
Because several of the locals had already been bitten, Mike and his
platoon were given one box of live ammunition to counter this danger.
So much ammunition was expended supposedly shooting at snakes that his
CO became suspicious. He demanded that everyone who had shot at a snake
present the dead snake as proof that the expenditure of rounds was
justified.

photo
from Ken Abasolo's collection
The next day, the CO entered his office and spotted a shoebox from Petty
Officer Macready on his desk. He opened it, revealing a sleepy and
sluggish, but very live, rattlesnake. Inside the box were twenty
expended cartridges, and a short note. The note said, "I
missed!"
submitted by: Ken Abasolo
Ken
& Son Bryce
From: Bob Stoner 27 Mar 2009
Just before we finished up our tour at SA, we took a
daylight recon due west on the Cau Lon River until we came to a large
canal several clicks away. We took the canal north and it
branched. We took the right branch (now heading east) and then
nosed the MSSC into the bank to drop off our SEAL squad. The
mangrove trees were thick. The point man hit the water and
immediately there were about six snakes that went swimming away!
(I decided that I was NOT getting off that boat -- no matter what.)
Source: Kiet Nguyen LDNN(SEAL)
Gary Smith in CamhRanhBay RVN
| Michael P.
Macready's Vietnam Snake Sea Story
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael P. Macready
To: docrio45 [at] gmail.com
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009

Subject: Here is a true story for ya
Doc Riojas, This is no shit; in 1970 Vietnam,
Our Squad was working out of a small river boat outpost that was
manned by about 30 US and VN sailors. The sailors,barges and
boats were taking a pounding by sappers swimming in and placing
charges at night. One evening we patrolled out through the wire
and were crossing a burned over rice paddy on our way to set up
on a canal that we figured the sapper team was using to access
the river.
There were a lot of flares going up that night
and every time one did we would squat down in the barren paddy.
The first time I squatted something hit my boot and I wondered
whether the snake that had just attacked me was of the poisonous
variety.
After the flare extinguished we patrolled for
a few minutes until the next one went up.....squat.....snake
strikes my boot...wait till flare goes out. By the third boot
strike I am sure that there is some kind of Spec Ops snake
following me with the intention of doing me in. I'm sure also
that my heart rate was over 150 and I am doing everything I can
to hold myself together and not compromise the op by working out
my M-60 on the dirt around me.
Finally I figured out that earlier that day I had reconfigured
my gear and had not done a complete range of motion check on how
everything was slung. Whenever I squatted my K-bar sheath would
hit the back of my boot which would almost send me into cardiac
arrest due to my well known phobia of snakes.
What did I learn from all this? Not only that I needed to do a
better job on checking out all my gear but that I was dumber
than hell ever to tell the story later that night back at the
outpost to the rest of the guys. Not only did it turn out to be
extremely embarrassing for me, it just added fuel to the already
fire of "screwin" with Macready with snakes.
Mike Macready WC 49, ST-1
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from
kgw:
Don't
worry - Portland
is not under attack. Low flying military helicopters buzzing downtown
Portland looked like a scene out of a movie. Monday night’s drama was all
part of a military exercise. Newschannel8 has learned, the Army and Navy are
conducting Urban
Military Training in Portland and Salem from August 17-30.
The training will include “low visibility movement, military operations in
urban terrain, manual and low weight explosive breaching, fast-rope
insertion, live fire†and other exercises according to a memo from
Portland Mayor Tom Potter to the Navy’s Special Warfare Development Group.
A spokesperson in Mayor Potter’s office says, the military asked
permission to conduct the training last November. The Portland Police
Bureau’s specially trained SERT unit is involved in the training.
Monday’s exercise involved helicopters hopping from one downtown
skyscraper to another. Many residents and downtown workers were concerned by
the low flying helicopters. The Department of Defense provided no advance
warning of the exercise.
Drills involving helicopters are expected to resume on Wednesday evening in
Portland. The Urban Military Training is expected to take place in Salem on
Tuesday and Thursday. It is not clear what type of training will take place
in Salem.
military choppers to train again on wednesday
from oregonian:
In The Oregonian's news podcast, Today in Oregon, for Tuesday, Aug. 26,
2008: A spokesman for the Department of Defense says the black military
helicopters will train again on Portland on Wednesday evening. But he says
they are not armed. download mp3 here. (8.3mb)
last night's surprise navy seal training (may have) included live fire &
training ammo
from
willamette
week: Here's the text of an April letter from Mayor Tom Potter to the
U.S. Navy authorizing last night's helicopter training exercises downtown,
which caught Portlanders by surprise and scared a good number of them.
Potter
spokesman John Doussard says the city's central dispatch line got about 50
concerned calls last night as the military helicopters buzzed over the Park
Blocks.
"I think next time we would handle it differently," Doussard says.
Potter's letter says, in part:
"I
understand that this training will include low visibility movement,
military operations in urban terrain, manual and low weight explosive
breaching, fast rope insertion, live fire,"
—which
the Naval Safety Center calls "a hazardous but necessary part of combat
training"—"
low
power training ammunition, simmunitions, flash bang, surveillance and
counter surveillance ."
As
war geeks know, the Naval Special Warfare Development Group is a real
hot-shit bunch.
The Oregonian reports today that the training will continue.
Again, here's the full text of Potter's letter:
April 7, 2008
Captain Scott P. Moore
Commanander [sic], Naval Special Warfare Development Group
1636 Regulus Avenue
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23461
Dear Captain Moore
I am pleased to extend you an invitation to conduct Urban Military Training
in our City from August 17 to 30, 2008.
In a letter from your command, dated November 14, 2007 requesting permission
to conduct training, you stated that members of the Naval Special Warfare
Development Group and Army Special Operations Aviation Regiment would
utilize buildings in the jurisdiction of the City of Portland for this
training exercise. I understand that this training will include low
visibility movement, military operations in urban terrain, manual and low
weight explosive breaching, fast rope insertion, live fire, low power
training ammunition, simmunitions, flash bang, surveillance and counter
surveillance.
I have been informed that all training has been coordinated through and
approved by all involved government entities, as well as the
representatives/owners of each property, and that all liability for your
personnel and their actions during training rests with the Navy. I have also
been informed that extensive planning and coordination has already been
conducted and that Sergeant Mike Lieb of the Tactical Operations Division
will act as liaison for this exercise.
I welcome the opportunity to support the United States Navy as you develop
the techniques and tactics necessary to protect our country. We look forward
to your group having a safe and productive training exercise in our City.
Sincerely,
Tom Potter
Mayor
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Your Time Snapshots I remember when . . .
I remember when . . .
My ship stopped the demolition man
Paul R. Holmberg
- August 17, 2008
When I was in the U.S. Navy, my
ship was entering a port in the Far East in 1955 when we spied a
certain type of small ship anchored in the harbor. We knew
instinctively that we would be "attacked" by the U.S.
Navy Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT), the forerunner of the Navy
SEALs, that evening. This was their usual practice.
It was becoming a nuisance, as it happened in almost every port we
entered. Someone would sneak aboard our ship and place something that
said "BOMB" on it. Each evening, we put out a small craft to
patrol around the ship looking for swimmers. When spotted, a bright
beam of light would be placed on them, and they would swim away
because they had been "shot."
Our ship was an LST (landing ship, tank) with bow doors and a ramp. So
one evening, we set an obvious trap by opening the bow and lowering
the ramp into the water, and we waited in the shadows.
Sure enough, someone took the bait and came up the ramp. He was
captured and placed in our brig. The ramp was raised, and the bow
doors closed, and we continued to watch for more swimmers.
The next day, word was sent out asking whether
anyone had seen the UDT commander, to which we replied,
"No." We watched as many small boats set out looking for
that missing man, while we had him all the time, dried off, fed and
clothed.
Our LST division commander obtained our captive's word that he would
stop the "attacks" if we let him go but would not betray his
stupid mistake of falling for an obvious trap. We covertly set him
ashore, so he could make up his own story.
We had no further "attacks."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-rememberholmberg1708aug17,0,5743025.story Webmaster's
SEASTORY: Back in 1968, LT
Ron Yeaw, Chief Riojas and a platoon of SEALs made a sneak attack on the
ships at Mayport FL. THe
first funny part was that we were hanging on to a one man submarine
driven by an ex-UDT frogman, Kelly. We placed our magnetic Limped
(sp) mines on to the sub. That made the sub's compass go round and
round so that Kelly had to periscope every now and then to see where he
was going. We got in
and we all hit all the big ships and commenced to hit the smaller
ones. Ron and his swim-buddy Joe Silva Ran out of MK-13
flares. They surfaced by a destroyer and had the balls to ask them
for some flares! Not only
were they greeted by nasty remarks, but they started throwing stuff from
their ship to these two SEAL swimmers. Unbelievable that Ron
and Joe would think they could get extra flares to go blow up more
ships. Doc Riojas
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Warren
Lockette (M.D. 1981) is the 2002 Navy recipient of the Roy Wilkins
Service Award, given by the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People at their 93rd annual convention in Houston on July 9.
The
award is presented annually to a member from each branch of the armed
services who has best demonstrated accomplishments that support the
Association’s principal goal of ensuring political, educational, social
and economic equality for minorities in America. Lockette, a medical
officer, scientist, and special advisor to the U.S. Navy’s top SEAL
commando, received the award in recognition of his groundbreaking work in
assisting the Navy SEALs in their diversity and recruiting programs.



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In
the spirit of 'The Teams and Shit'...Subject:
True Friends
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Tell you not to do something stupid when you are drunk. TEAM
GUY FRIENDS: Will post 360 degree security so you don't get
caught.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs. TEAM
GUY FRIENDS: Call your parents drunk as hell and tell them about
the fat chick you tried to pick up.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Hope the night out drinking goes smoothly, and hope that
no one is late for the ride home. TEAM GUY
FRIENDS: Know some wild sh*t will happen, and set up rally points
and an E & E route.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Cry with you. TEAM GUY FRIENDS:
Laugh at you and tell you to put some vagasil on your p**sy.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back. TEAM
GUY FRIENDS: Steal each other's stuff so often nobody remembers
who bought it in the first place.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Are happy that someone picked up a one night stand and
leave them alone. TEAM GUY FRIENDS: Will
Low Crawl naked into the room with a camera and hope for the tag team.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Know a few things about you. TEAM
GUY FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.
TEAM GUY FRIENDS: Will kick the whole
crowd's ass that left you.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Would knock on your door. TEAM GUY
FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, 'I'm home!'
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Will try and talk to the bouncer when you get tossed
outof the bar. TEAM GUY FRIENDS: Will man
up and go after the bouncer for touching you on the way out.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Will wish you had enough money to go out that night, and
are sorry you couldn't come. TEAM GUY FRIENDS:
Will share their last dollar with you, drag you along, and try to steal
free drinks all night.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had
enough. TEAM GUY FRIENDS: Will look at you
stumbling all over the place and say,'Bitch, you better drink the rest
of that sh*t, you know we don't waste. That's alcohol abuse!!!'
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Want the money they loaned you back next week. TEAM
GUY FRIENDS: Can't begin to remember who owes who money after
taking care of each other for so long.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Will say 'I can't handle Tequila anymore'. TEAM
GUY FRIENDS: Will say 'okay just one more'' and then 2 minutes
later'okay just one more'.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Will talk sh*t to the person who talks shit about you. TEAM
GUY FRIENDS: Will knock them the f**k out!!
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Will tell you 'They'd take a bullet for you.' TEAM
GUY FRIENDS: Will actually take a bullet for you.
CIVILIAN
FRIENDS: Will ignore this. TEAM GUY
FRIENDS: Will forward this.
This was
submitted by: Tom Hawkins
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Gov.
Schwarzenegger Signs Executive Order Honoring Vietnamese Heritage
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on "X" to
view the Video !
WHEREAS the Vietnamese-American community has made positive
contributions to the historical, cultural, educational, and economic
prosperity of California; and
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