Python Adopts Sailors

from HAI QUAN March 24, 1971 Like many people, Sam likes chicken. And when he gets hungry, about once every two weeks, it’s no bother preparing a meal for him because Sam doesn’t like his chicken plucked. He prefers his dinner alive and whole, with feathers, feet and all. Sam is not a freak. He is just an ordinary 16 …

Psy-Ops, SEAL/Seawolf Style

by Con Jaburg The following may, or may not be apocrypha, but happened during our first year of operations as a squadron, and I believe it. Maybe there is someone out there who can correct me as to the details, but here is the way it is supposed to have happened. As you all know, Dung Island, which is about …

Reds Find Navy Huey a Tough Old Bird

No Losses to Ground Fire Since December Story & Photo by SPEC. 4 Dan Evans S&S Staff Correspondent from Stars & Stripes, June 1970 CA MAU, Vietnam — Talk about helicopter gunships and most GI’s are likely to conjure up a vision of a sleek AH1G Cobra. But South Vietnamese soldiers and US Advisors in the Delta are apt to …

Spotlight: USS Hunterdon County A PX For Combat Essentials

From “The Jackstaff News” July 15, 1970 Story by JO3 Donald Gaylien How would you respond if a helicopter landed on your roof and the pilot asked for six “nails”, six “proxies”, and a couple of “Wilson Picketts?” Sailors aboard the tank landing ship USS Hunterdon County (LST-838) supplied these specialties daily along with a formidable array of other weapons …

The Last Flight of the Seawolves

by LT. Robert Engelman USN (Ret) The last days at Binh Thuy were used to prepare all the Hueys for transport via C-130 and C-141 to CONUS. We had to clean all the aircraft inside and out to insure they would pass Department of Agriculture inspection. This was to make sure all the bugs accumulating from the years of jungle …

Seawolf Poems

Look God by Mike Schafernocker (The Delta Mauler) Mike Schaffernocker flew as a door gunner with the Seawolves in 1969. Keenly aware of his own mortality, he wrote this poem and titled it “Look God”. Look God, I have never spoken to you, But now I want to say, “How do you do”. You see, God, they told me you …