REMEMBERING THIS DAY–17 MAY 2021–THE MEN OF THE USS STARK (FFG-31) thirty-seven years later!!!

Monday, 17 May 2021

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USS Stark (FFG-31): Was an  Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigate named for Admiral Harold Rainsford Stark (1880–1972).  In 1987, an Iraqi jet fired two missiles at Stark, killing 37 U.S. sailors on board. USS STARK was decommissioned on 7 May 1999. Stark was scrapped in 2006.

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So, we ask again: Were they heroes? ‘Heroes are not supermen,’ Herman Wouk once reminded us, ‘they’re good men, and embodied by the cast of destiny, the virtue of a whole people in a great hour.’ And writing of the thousands of such heroes in our nation, men and women who wear our country’s uniform in this troubled peace of ours, he asked us to never forget ‘to reassure them that their hard, long training is needed, that love of country is noble, that self-sacrifice is rewarding, that to be ready to fight for freedom fills a man with a sense of worth like nothing else.’ And he said, ‘If America is still the great beacon in dense gloom, the promise to hundreds of millions of the oppressed that liberty exists, that it is the shining future, that they can throw off their tyrants, and learn freedom and cease learning war, then we still need heroes to stand guard in the night.’ ”

 MEN OF USS STARK (FFG- 31) – 17 May 1987

USS STARK (FFG-31) CASUALTIES:

  • Seaman Doran H. Bolduc, Lacey, Washington
  • First Class Petty Officer Boatswain Mate Braddi O. Brown, Calera, Alabama
  •  Third Class Petty Officer Fire Controlman Jeffrey L. Calkins, Richfield Springs, New York
  • Seaman Apprentice Radioman (Striker) Dexter D. Grissett, Macon, Georgia
  • Third Class Petty Officer Fire Controlman William R. Hansen, Reading, Massachusetts
  • Third Class Petty Officer Gunners Mate (Guns) Daniel Homicki, Elizabeth, New Jersey
  • Senior Chief Petty Officer Fire Controlman Robert L. Shippee, Adams Center New York
  • Seaman Apprentice Signalman (Striker) Jeffrey C. Sibley, Metairie, Louisiana
  • Third Class Petty Officer Operations Specialist Lee Stephens, Pemberton, Ohio
  • Seaman Mark R. Caouette, Fitchhburg, Massachusetts
  • Seaman John A. Ciletta, Jr., Brigantine, New Jersey
  • Seaman Recruit Brian M. Clinefelter, San Bernardino, California
  • Third Class Petty Officer Operations Specialist Antonio A. Daniels, Greeleyville, South Carolina
  • Seaman Operations Specialist Striker Kenneth D. Janusik, Jr., Clearwater, Florida
  • Petty Officer First Class Operations Specialist Steven E. Kendall, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Senior Chief Petty Officer Electrician’s Mate Stephen Kiser, Elkhart, New Jersey
  • First Class Petty Officer Signalman Ronnie G. Lockett, Bessemer, Alabama
  • Second Class Petty Officer Boatswain Mate James R. Stevens, Visalia, California
  • Third Class Petty Officer Martin J. Supple, Jacksonville, Florida
  • First Class Petty Officer Fire Controlman Gregory L. Tweady, Champaign, Illinois
  • Third Class Petty Officer Electricians Mate Kelly R. Quick, Linden, Michigan
  • Third Class Petty Officer Christopher DeAngelis, Dumont, New Jersey
  • Third Class Petty Officer Interior Communications Electrician James S. Dunlap, Osceola Mills, Pennsylvania
  • Seaman Sonar Technician – Surface (Striker) Steven T. Erwin, Troy Michigan
  • Second Class Petty Officer Radioman Jerry Boyd, Charleston, South Carolina
  • First Class Petty Officer Gunners Mate (Missiles) Thomas J. MacMullen, Darby, Pennsylvania
  • Third Class Petty Officer Electronic Warfare Technician Charles T. Moller, Columbus, Georgia
  • First Class Petty Officer Data Systems Technician  Randy E. Pierce, Choctaw, Oklahoma
  • Seaman Apprentice Jeffrei L. Phelps, Locust Grove, Virginia
  • Seaman Vincent L. Ulmer, Bay Minette, Alabama
  • Third Class Petty Officer Jospeh P. Watson, Ferndale, Michigan
  • Third Class Petty Officer Electronics Technician Wayne R. Weaver, New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • Seaman Operations Specialist (Striker) Terrance Weldon, Coram, New York
  • Senior Chief Quartermaster [Navigator] Vernon T. Foster, Jacksonville, Florida
  • Third Class Gunners Mate James Plonsky, Van Nuys, California
  • Seaman Signalman (Striker) Earl P. Ryals, Boca Raton, Florida
  • Second Class Petty Officer Interior Communications Electrician Lloyd A. Wilson, Summerville, South Carolina
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2 Responses to “REMEMBERING THIS DAY–17 MAY 2021–THE MEN OF THE USS STARK (FFG-31) thirty-seven years later!!!”

  1. usnveteran Says:

    “Just Like The Obama Regime, The Biden Regime Is Purging The Military Officers Who Don’t Share Their Marxist Views”:
    https://barenakedislam.com/2021/05/16/just-like-the-obama-regime-the-biden-regime-is-purging-the-military-of-officers-who-dont-share-their-Marxist-views/

  2. ronvrooman38 Says:

    The JAG of the Oregon National Guard Major Nicolas Paulson is one of 38 Prosecutors on Oregon.
    A Constitutional solution is to assemble as in the 1st amendment on your state. With; people that will do the work; people that will form a Lawful grand jury and bring a true bill against these evil doers. On Oregon we bring Article I Section 1. We need; people to populate a VII amendment jury of peers to bring forth a verdict that has no appeal in law in Our Article III one supreme Court claiming original jurisdiction. There may be other solutions!! However, this one works; it is we the people in assembly, forming a civilian court of record, implementing Ex Parte Milligan which nullified Lieber Code/martial law.. DOJ, FBI, USMS, USMC, STATE OF OREGON all acquiesced and defaulted. Will you help your state assemble? You have a pulpit. It only takes 45. Americans on a state in a minimum of 21 days.. Invite all non evil Americans. It only takes 45 people, no persons.. all the best of every good fortune for the good, ronvrooman38@gmail.com

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