Time Flies! On This Day Fifty Years Ago:

I was young, dumb and full of ***, on station off Cap St. Jacques, Republic of Vietnam as part of the Number 1 Surface BLT, Seventh Fleet, Task Group 76.5 with the mission of occupying and securing Tan Son Nhut (TSN) Airfield in Saigon and ensuring continuation of air operations at same.

Dopey me, I was thinking that the whole fiasco would be over with in a few weeks, and it's back to Okinawa.

Oh well.

Cheers, S. Rex