This is a recorded of an interview with Captain Wilford J. Holmes, USN Retired, otherwise known as Jasper Holmes. The interviewers are Hank Shorik, NSA Historian and Ray Schmidt, NSG Historian. The date is 13 September 1977.
Captain Wilfred J. “Jasper” Holmes
April 4, 1900 – January 7, 1986
“Let Us Never Forget” Submariner, Intelligence Officer, (USNA 1922), Captain Wilfred Jay (Jasper) Holmes, USN
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Today, the last of the NIOC Pacific personnel officially moved out of Building 324, leaving the space to Cyber Group-1 Command—formerly NIOC Pacific N9. Great things are ahead for Building 324.
Many Naval Security Group personnel who served during the Vietnam Era are familiar with PIRAZ station – the Primary Identification Radar Advisory Zone established in the Gulf of Tonkin (GOT) in 1966 to track hostile and friendly air traffic over North Vietnam and the GOT. PIRAZ was continuously manned from its inception until after the cessation of hostilities and the return of the POWs from Hanoi in 1973. Since any ship assigned PIRAZ duties (most were cruisers or DLGs) had a NAVSECGRU detachment, quite a few CTs earned membership in the “Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club.”
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Station HYPO 