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picket ships, ocean minesweepers and swift boats and
Vietnamese Navy Junk Force craft, as well as 82-foot and high endurance Coast Guard cutters. Owasco is one of five of the latter group, which makes up Coast Guard Squadron Three on duty with the Seventh Fleet's Cruiser-Destroyer Group in Southeast Asia. In addition to keeping track of shipping in their patrol areas and inspecting and searching suspicious water craft and their occupants, Market Time units are often called upon to lend gunfire support to friendly forces ashore. Owasco's 5 inch,.38 caliber main battery is well suited to shore bombardment and she also carries 81 mm mortars and.50 caliber machine guns for close range engagements with the enemy.
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the time noted: "Using muscle power and a baseball bat, a crewman attacks ice formed of spray on the superstructure of the Coast Guard's 255-foot cutter OWASCO during her recent weather patrol and plane guard duty on Ocean
Station "Bravo" situated in the passage between Labrador and Greenland. A northeaster picked up spume from high waves and deposited it as ice over the vessel. Crewmen fought this ice battle for ten hours to preserve the ship's stability. They use bats, pick handles, meat cleavers, fire axes, shovels and other objects to crack away the dangerous tons of white weight."
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was officially credited with killing four enemy soldiers, destroying 18 bunkers and damaging 10, destroying 11 "military structures" and damaging 17, destroying 550 meters of "Enemy Supply Trails", destroying 1 sampan, 1 loading pier, and interdicting 3 "Enemy Troop
Movements." The ship carried out
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Although her patrol areas may change from time to time during the next several months, her duties will not. Market Time units are assigned primarily to keep the
Communists from sneaking men, arms and other supplies into the Republic of Vietnam. They include U.S. Navy aircraft, destroyer escort radar
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in the South China Sea. From 13 September to 3 October 1968 the vessel operated as the SOPA Administrator for all U.S. Naval vessels in Hong Kong, maintaining the shore patrol for the fleet and handling all mail, communications, and matters concerning U.S. naval personnel there. On 1 October 1968,
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Owasco was damaged during a series of violent storms in
January 1962, when wind gusts at times reached 80 miles an hour. A lifeboat was damaged by a wave and her SPS-29 radar antenna sheared off, while the crew was obliged to work continuously to keep the cutter free from ice. A photo caption from
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had supplied logistical support to 86 Navy Swift boats and 47 Coast Guard 82-foot patrol boats. She had detected 2,596 junks and conducted 178 "actual boardings and 2,341 inspections", exceeding the "results of any
Squadron Three cutter thus far." She conducted 17 Naval Gunfire Support Missions,
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was described in a 1973 unit history: "When the OWASCO leaves New London for ocean station she is heading for a 210 mile square, and once there remains for 28 days obtaining meteorological and oceanographic data and information. A characteristic signal from her radiobeacon serves as an aid to
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men, LTJG Mack, BM2 Scheyer, DC3 Bane, EM3 Switlik all assisted in rescue and salvage operations to the battle damaged Navy craft. For their achievement under fire, Doctor Spott and seaman Maison received Navy
Commendation medals, while the other four were cited in Letters of Commendation by
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navigation. She also furnished all passing aircraft within radar range accurate information as to their position, course, speed, and up to date weather forecasts. While performing her duties as an Ocean
Station Vessel, she carries a crew of 13 officers and 121 men."
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resumed peacetime operations. After refresher training at
Guantanamo Bay in 1972, during which the vessel earned a second consecutive "E" for excellence in operational readiness, she returned to her home port in December of the same year.
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returned to regular
Coastguard duties, including law enforcement, ocean station, and search and rescue operations. She was decommissioned in 1951 and recommissioned on 15 August 1955, at which time her homeport was changed to
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crewmen were cited for meritorious service as a result of direct action with the enemy, while the ship was patrolling Market Time Area Two on Wednesday 6 November 1968. The six men had just completed a
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from 1945 to 1973. Originally intended for World War II service, she was commissioned only weeks before the end of the war and consequently did not see combat until her deployment in the
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returned to Subic Bay for emergency dry dock repairs between 15 and 25 January. Between 26 January and 11 March the vessel was back on Market Time Station One duty. On 14 March 1969
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Detection Radar: SPS-23, SPS-29, Mk 26, Mk 27 (1966)
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967:List of cutters of the United States Coast Guard
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329:5 in/38 cal. dual-purpose gun
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673:Return to peacetime service
510:, the attempt to interdict
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136:Vietnam Service Medal
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768:Scheina, Robert L.:
761:Scheina, Robert L.:
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403:Vietnam War
245:4,000
120:Honours and
99:18 May 1945
1008:1944 ships
982:Categories
945:Wind class
924:Okeechobee
903:Minnetonka
836:Chautauqua
747:References
720:2012-12-17
579:Swift boat
355:projector.
293:Complement
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334:2 × quad
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882:Escanaba
856:Iroquois
467:Owasco's
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353:Hedgehog
318:Armament
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390:was an
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889:Winona
876:Otsego
849:Sebago
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526:Hawaii
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203:Length
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179:-class
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122:awards
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39:USCGC
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