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Educator Outward Bound Program Robert Bradley Rheault / r oʊ / (October 31, 1925 – October 16, 2013) was an American soldier in the U.S. Army Special Forces who served as commander of the First Special Forces Group in Okinawa , and the Fifth Special Forces Group in Vietnam from May to July 1969.
Outward Bound, Inc. (1971–1986) Ralph Puckett Jr. (December 8, 1926 – April 8, 2024) was a United States Army officer. He led the Eighth Army Ranger Company during the Korean War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions on November 25, 1950, when his company of 51 Rangers was attacked by several hundred Chinese ...
On 10 July 1972 during the Vietnam War the London Statesman was unloading a cargo of rice in Nha Trang in South Vietnam when her engine room flooded and she sank by the stern. [1] Sabotage by the Viet Cong was suspected. [1] On 31 July she was refloated and towed to Singapore for repairs. [1] She continued to trade with LOF until 1979. [1]
On her 1960 deployment, she escorted a Vietnamese ship across the Pacific when outward bound. She was decommissioned on 2 August 1991 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 3 September 1991 and remained at Inactive Ships, Pearl Harbor until 6 October 2000, when she entered the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet.
Outward Bound (OB) is an international network of outdoor education organisations that was founded in the United Kingdom by Lawrence Holt in 1941 based on the educational principles of Kurt Hahn. Today there are organisations, called schools, in over 35 countries which are attended by more than 150,000 people each year.
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Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress, 1968, 1989 & 2000). Scurfield then co-led the first university-based study abroad course to Vietnam (in 2000, with Andy Wiest and Leslie Root). This trip was a major focus of Scurfield's second book about Vietnam: Healing Journeys: Study Abroad with Vietnam Veterans (2006).
William Sloane Coffin Jr. (June 1, 1924 – April 12, 2006) was an American Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ.