Advisors

Command Member E-mail Address Dates Comments
Advisory John Wayne Hoeche, LTJG   ??-8/70 CO --- Plano/Dallas, TX
Team John Charles "Jack" Gallop, QM2 QMCSWCC@aol.com 3/70-5/70 Fresno, CA
143 Arthur A. Guy, BM2      

DaNang

Richard E. "Butch" Wagley, BM2     Cottonwood, AZ

(1st Coastal Zone)

Sattorious, LTJG     XO
  Joseph I. "Sandy" Sandoval, GMG3 jocon2000@aol.com 6/70-8/70 Las Vegas, NV
  Irving Allen Johnson, MM3 swifty3881@cybertrails.com 6/70-12/70 advisor to PCF 3881 (old PCF 79) ----- Holbrook, AZ
  Richard William Wilhelm, RDC rwilhelm36@hotmail.com 8/70-8/71 Tulsa, OK
  Larry E. Hendrick, GMG1   ??-10/70 KIA 10/30/70 --- Blufield, WV
  John E. Winters, EN1   ??-10/70 KIA 10/30/70 --- Liberal, KS
  ?Robert W? Logsdon, ?BM3?   1970  
  Hairgrove, 2nd class   1970  
  Cheatham, EN1      
  Del Lacruise, BM1      
  Larry Franklin Clark, BM3 lc34221@navix.net late 1970 - early 1972 Syracuse, NE
      23 February 1973 Naval Advisory Team DaNang disestablished and advisors withdrawn

Unit consisted of 21 enlisted and 3 officers: CO, XO and Engineering Officer.

One advisor per boat, each advisor had his counterpart on his boat and would go on the various patrols to observe Vietnamese crew.

Vietnamese had 12 Swifts and 4 WPBs, the patrols where the same as the previous American crews, including the Cua Dai river patrols.

Command Member E-mail Address Dates Comments

Sa Dec

Thomas Lee Buck, RD3 tjjb12@mchsi.com 4/70-4/70 advisor to PCF 3833 (old PCF 32) --- Rock Island, IL
      6 February 1973 Naval Advisory Team Sa Dec disestablished and advisors withdrawn

One advisor per boat

Command Member E-mail Address Dates Comments

3rd Naval Advisory Group

William Kent Gain, RD2   4/70-7/70 Sheridan, WY

Cat Lo

Dale Allen Kumher, RM1 rmns828@bellsouth.net 2/71-10/71 Warrior, AL
      15 February 1973 Naval Advisory Team Cat Lo disestablished and advisors withdrawn

 

Command Member E-mail Address Dates Comments
Advisory Emliss Odell Ricks Jr, QM2 emcat1978@hotmail.com 1/70-4/70 Garrettsville, OH
Team Robert Wesley Anderson, EN3 rwaudit@aol.com 3/70-6/70 Columbus, MT

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Brenton Douglas Higdem, YN3 pbdh@sbcglobal.net 4/70-9/70 Sherwood, AR

Cam Ranh

Robert Kincaid, EN2     ??Kansas??
  Sims, XX3      
  Sherwood H. Doolittle, EM1 sherwoodusn@netzero.com   advisor to PCF 3869 (old PCF 51) --- West Columbia, SC --- made NCCS
  Robert Elkins, XX1     ??New York or Vermont??
      10 February 1973 Naval Advisory Team Cam Ranh Bay disestablished and advisors withdrawn

Unit consisted of 8-10 US Navy enlisted and officers

One advisor per boat

Vietnamese had 6-8 Swifts and 2-3 WPBs

Command Member E-mail Address Dates Comments
Advisory (Charles) "Chuck" Holcomb, LCDR   1970 Officer in Charge
Team Frank Emmanuel Novotny, QM2 franzl@mindspring.com 1/70-9/70 advisor to PCF 3862 (old PCF 100) ----- Fayetteville, NC

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James Delbert Sarver, LT/LCDR lindaandjimsarver@yahoo.com 5/70-5/71 deceased 1/29/2008 --- Officer in Charge --- Walkerton, IN
Qui Nhon Stone, LT   70/71  
  Doug Anthony, LTJG   70/71  
  Oliver Hanely, LTJG   70/71  
  Thompson, LTJG   70/71  
  Perkins, PO1   70/71  
  Turchin, PO3   70/71  

 

Hays, QM1     ??advisor to PCF 3803??
      30 January 1973 Naval Advisory Team Qui Nhon disestablished and advisors withdrawn

One advisor per boat

Vietnamese had Swifts

Command Member E-mail Address Dates Comments

Advisory

Arden Lee Krukow, MM2   11/68-1/69 KIA 1/22/69 --- Spencer, IA

Team

Don E. Stevenson, BM1   ??-12/69 KIA 12/4/69 --- New Orleans, LA
  Richard Michael Matyjakowski, BM2 divermaty@aol.com 5/70-12/70 Buffalo, NY

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Curtis Robert MacConnell, EN2 cr.mac@version.net 6/70-?? Harrisburg, PA
Solid Anchor Jerry Gene Black, QM2   6/70-?? made chief

(Coastal Flotilla IV)

Raymond Lloyd Haglund   1970-71 deceased 8/17/2003 --- Mount Vernon, WA
Nha Be Gerald Robert Wilson Sr, EN2 grwilsonsr@charter.net 1970/71 advisor to PCF 3914 (old PCF 88) --- Highland, IL
  Robert L. Arnold, EN1   ?1970/71?  
  Larry Edward Silva, EN1   ?1970/71?  
  Larry Powell Talley, EN3   ?1970/71?  
  Vaughn, EN3   ?1970/71?  
  Zorn, EN2   1971 advisor to PCF 3903 (old PCF 63)
  Robert Bruce Colcleasure, QM1 qmcret1982@aol.com  1971 advisor to PCF 3910 (old PCF 40) --- Sacramento, CA
  King, ETN2   1971 advisor to PCF 3911 (old PCF 54)
  Gary A. Schultz, QM2   1971 advisor to PCF 3918 (old PCF 74)
  Davis, EN2   1971 advisor to PCF 3923 (old PCF 99)
  McCoy, EN2   1971 advisor to PCF 3924 (old PCF 38)
  Charles Bernard Boehne, BM3   1971 advisor to PCF 3928 (old PCF 87)
  Smith, EM2   1971 advisor to PCF 3929 (old PCF 97)
  Charles Leslie Gould, QM1   1971 advisor to PCF 3932 (old PCF 103) --- made Chief
      6 February 1973 Naval Advisory Team Nha Be disestablished and advisors withdrawn

Vietnamese had Swift Boats

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