The last Navy deployment was on George H.W. Bush in November 2014, with VAQ-134. The last Navy operational flight took place on 27 May 2015. Electronic Attack Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CVWP), hosted a retirement commemoration for the EA-6B from 25 to 27 June 2015 at NAS Whidbey Island.
Mike Lambert enlisted in the United States Navy in 1975 as a Seaman Recruit, beginning what would become a three-decade journey from the lowest rung of enlisted service to the rank of Captain. That arc — from recruit to commanding officer — shaped the leader he became: someone who understood his Sailors because he had once been one of them.
Continue reading “Honoring Capt. Mike Lambert USN (Ret.) – Cryptologist, IW Officer and Mentor to Many”On July 1, 1961, the U.S. Naval Communication Station, (NAVCOMMSTA) Iceland was established and assumed most of the island’s military communications requirements from the Airways and Air Communications Service Squadron (AACS/MATS). The NAVCOMMSTA’s responsibilities were wide-ranging with personnel assigned to operate communications equipment at a variety of remote sites: Inter-Island TROPO site at H-1; DYE-5 Transceiver site; transceiver sites at H-2 and H-3, the Special Communications
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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).
Continue reading “Honoring Captain Ivan Dunn, USN, (Ret.), Former CO of NTTC Corry Station”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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