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Jack Columbus Rittichier (August 17, 1933 – June 9, 1968) was the highest-ranked American Coast Guard officer killed during the Vietnam War [1] and the first Coast Guardsman killed in action during the Vietnam War. [2]
On 22 April representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy signed a memorandum of understanding stating that the Coast Guard would supply 17 Point-class cutters and their crews and the Navy would provide transport to South Vietnam and logistical support with two tank landing ships (LST) that had been converted to repair ships.
Hernandez earned a high school equivalency certificate while he was in the Coast Guard. [2] In the spring of 1968 he was assigned to Coast Guard Squadron One in South Vietnam, serving aboard USCGC Point Cypress. Hernandez was known for volunteering for dangerous duty, like the excursion where he was mortally wounded.
According to the Vietnam Coast Guard Law (Vietnamese: Luật Cảnh sát biển) which "prescribes the status, functions, roles, powers, organization and operation of the Vietnam Coast Guard" and declaring the "responsibilities of involved entities and persons", the Vietnam Coast Guard shall be "...under the absolute and all-aspect leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the supreme ...
Nathan B. "Nate" Bruckenthal (July 17, 1979 – April 24, 2004) was a United States coast guardsman who was killed in the Iraq War, becoming the first to die in wartime action since the Vietnam War. Bruckenthal and two U.S. Navy sailors were killed while intercepting a waterborne suicide attack on an offshore oil terminal off the coast of Iraq ...
The China coast guard has been accused of aggression and of disrupting fisheries and energy activities of countries like Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, testing relations and raising ...
A military court in Vietnam on Thursday sentenced a former coast guard commander to 16 years in prison, after finding him guilty of embezzlement in siphoning off $2 million from military ...
The Commandant of the Coast Guard has declared Ingham the National Memorial to Coast Guardsmen Killed in Action in World War II and Vietnam. These 912 casualties are identified on a memorial plaque on Ingham's quarterdeck. [11] Ingham was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992. [3] [12]