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Coast Guard ship’s logbook entry in verse on New Year’s Day, 1969
True to tradition, an ensign aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Pontchartrain composed a New Year’s Day 1969 logbook entry in verse, and a fine job he did of it. Ensign Hughes, Happy New Year to you, too, from 2023. … Continue reading
Cruise Book of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pontchartrain From Vietnam 1970
“What did you do in the war, Daddy?” This is a question I thankfully have some answers to from my Dad’s writings and photos from Vietnam. In my role as custodian of family photos, I’m sometimes bowled over by items … Continue reading
Cu Lao Re: A Story of the Coast Guard in Vietnam, by CAPT LeRoy Reinburg, Jr.
In the summer of 1970, I was the Commanding Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pontchartrain (WHEC-70), a unit of Coast Guard Squadron Three, Cruiser-Destroyer Group, U.S. Seventh Fleet. We were deployed to the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) and … Continue reading
The Most Important Consideration in Wartime: A Vietnam Story, by Captain Leroy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard-Retired
In the spring of 1970, the Coast Guard Cutter PONTCHARTRAIN, which I commanded, was sent on a fire support mission to destroy a North Vietnamese training facility on the seaward side of a mountain, Nui Da Dung, on the Vietnam-Cambodian … Continue reading
The Ship That Wouldn’t Stop, by Captain LeRoy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard–Retired
Editor’s note: In the aftermath of the tragic collision between a Philippine-registered container ship, ACX Crystal, and the U.S. Navy destroyer U.S.S. Fitzgerald off the coast of Japan on June 17, 2017, I recalled my father, Capt. LeRoy Reinburg, Jr. … Continue reading
My Grandfather Was a Marine, by Captain LeRoy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard–Retired
On Navy Day, 1928, my father, a U.S. Coast Guard commander, took my older sister and me to the Washington Navy Yard to hear President Calvin Coolidge give an address to Navy dignitaries and guests. As we passed through the … Continue reading
The Training Ship DANMARK, by Captain LeRoy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard–Retired
In 1933, the Danish Government completed construction of a 1,700-ton training ship, the DANMARK. It was not intended to be a mechanically driven ocean ship but a full-rigged ship, whose main propulsion was 17,000 square feet of canvas sail. The … Continue reading
“Friendly Fire Isn’t,” by Captain LeRoy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard–Retired
There are many tragedies in warfare but some of the most tragic, because they are frequently avoidable, are deaths or injury caused by the (oxymoron) “friendly fire.” The military term for friendly fire is the more descriptive word fratricide. These … Continue reading
“You Got Him!” by Captain LeRoy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard–Retired
When I was young, my mother used to tell me that my father (Rear Admiral LeRoy Reinburg, USCG) never talked about his World War I experiences. That’s why I was surprised that, beginning when I was about 10 years old … Continue reading
“A Coast Guardsman’s Recollections of Vietnam” by Captain LeRoy Reinburg, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard–Retired
During most of 1970, the Coast Guard Cutter PONTCHARTRAIN (WHEC-70), of which I was the commanding officer, was deployed to Vietnam as a unit of Coast Guard Squadron THREE, a part of Commander, Cruiser/Destroyer Group, U.S. SEVENTH Fleet. PONTCHARTRAIN was … Continue reading