Huber

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Gemini Recovery Program

We were posted outside the target area in case they missed. Iwas a volunteer swimmer and got some training in a Pearl Harbor swimming pool to learn how to attach the flotation collar around the craft just in case. We also had a doctor put on board for the mission. The ship rehearsed picking a dummy capsule out of the water. There are some pictures in the cruise album of this. I'm sure it was a carrier that got the capsule. The Cochrane and Renshaw were the two destroyers who along with us formed our recovery group.

Since I live in Orange County it would be wonderful to have our old ship resting as a reef nearby. I would be very interested in volunteering to assist in preparing her in the Bay Area, but especially in Southern Cal.

August 8, 2011: Answer to thought that Kawishiwi were Dry Docked in Vallejo.
"I want to be involved whether it is in Vallejo or Long Beach. Obviously Long Beach would be more convenient (I live in Orange County), but I could make it up for as many weekends as I could if it is in Nor Cal. How many weekends do you estimate would be needed to get the job done?"

October 12, 2011: DISCOVER U. S. NAVY OILERS site is up.

Robert C. Huber FTG3 Yorba Linda, California email: rhuber4@roadrunner.com Served aboard Kawishiwi 1966 -1967 - 1968 1965-Early November: Gemini VII surface recovery ship near Hawaii 1965-Dec 1: Left Pearl Harbor for WestPac 1966-February: Bataan 1966-February: Manila 1966- Sasebo, Japan - Kaoshsiung, Taiwan - Da Nang, Vietnam We moored in Da Nang bay alongside the Hospital Ship Repose, they wouldn't let us go ashore. - and of course, Subic Bay, PI BIOGRAPHY since Service in Navy View Robert's Memoriam to his fathers friend: Rear Admiral George W. Cassleman	Nov. 2010	1966 - Fox Div
.. Gemini Recovery Program We were posted outside the target area in case they missed. Iwas a volunteer swimmer and got some training in a Pearl Harbor swimming pool to learn how to attach the flotation collar around the craft just in case. We also had a doctor put on board for the mission. The ship rehearsed picking a dummy capsule out of the water. There are some pictures in the cruise album of this. I'm sure it was a carrier that got the capsule. The Cochrane and Renshaw were the two destroyers who along with us formed our recovery group. Since I live in Orange County it would be wonderful to have our old ship resting as a reef nearby. I would be very interested in volunteering to assist in preparing her in the Bay Area, but especially in Southern Cal. August 8, 2011: Answer to thought that Kawishiwi were Dry Docked in Vallejo. "I want to be involved whether it is in Vallejo or Long Beach. Obviously Long Beach would be more convenient (I live in Orange County), but I could make it up for as many weekends as I could if it is in Nor Cal. How many weekends do you estimate would be needed to get the job done?" October 12, 2011: DISCOVER U. S. NAVY OILERS site is up.