On May 13, 1961, the Army Security Agency’s (ASA) Third Radio Research Unit arrived in Saigon to provide support to the South Vietnamese military. Its location was the first of many conventional sites that US. cryptologists would establish in South Vietnam.
Captain Ivan Dunn, USN (ret) retired in 1998 after 31 years active duty. After his first tour as an Ensign Communications Officer at NAS Point Mugu, CA. (67-68), he volunteered for a special mission squadron, VQ-3 at NAS Agana, Guam. He served two years there flying as an Airborne Communications Officer in specially-configured C-130 aircraft designed to provide a survivable airborne component of Navy support to SSBNs (68-70).
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The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL posthumously to CAPTAIN Joseph J. Rochefort, United States Navy, for services set forth in the following citation: For exceptionally meritorious service…while serving…as Officer in Charge of the Combat Intelligence Unit (Station HYPO) from March 1942 through June 1942.
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CAPT George Paul McGinnis was born on May 11, 1919 in Iowa Park, Texas. He joined the Naval Reserve in 1941 and was called up shortly after Pearl Harbor.
May 11, 1983 – January 16, 2019
Born to Stephen and Mary Smith in Oswego, New York, Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent grew up in the small Hudson Valley town of Pine Plains, where she graduated as an honor student from Stissing Mountain Junior/Senior High School.
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