James Long's Photos
USS Satyr (ARL-23)
May 1968 - May 1969
A bunch of tangos or gunboats coming in from a mission
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* You could see where it got
hit at the side with a rocket. There were two killed and two wounded on it
* PBR that got shot up with a rocket and machine gun
* Picking up a landing craft that hit a sampan head on
* This is our XO on the USS Satyr
* Patrol boats getting into
their squads. Our ship getting ready to move out on the special sea and anchor
detail
* Good look at an alpha boat and its 30 ad 50 caliber machine guns
* Getting ready to move out on patrol. You could see the machine turrets on the
one boat
* Here's my drinking buddies--that's 3.2 beer like drinking embalming fluid
* Shipmates joking around
* Take notice of her measurements
* Boats coming in for repairs and refueling. I hate me