Military Vehicle Collectors Rally April 2012
The Military Vehicle Collectors of California will be holding their annual Rally and campout the week of 15-22 April 2012. This is the largest military vehicle gathering in the West ...
Fast Patrol Torpedo Boats / PTF-17
PTF-17, PTF’s in general and Coastal River Division 21 Ops: First, a little background: During most of their service in Vietnam the PTF’s operated as the primary naval weapons of ...
Coastal River Division 21 Comm Center
CRD21 Comm Center: Well, lets start here because this is one place the boats communicated with (and this site is about Combat Comms!). We built a shore Comm Center in ...
PTF Firepower
Gunnery exercises aboard PTF’s. (Bad Guys take note…) Here’s a “shot” of GMG2 “Bobby” and GMG2 (SEAL) “Bob” preparing to fire an 81 mm mortar flare round. The Browning M2 ...
Coastal River Division 21 / Ops
On 16 June, 1973, CRD21 was Commissioned at the Great Lakes Naval Base near Chicago as the US Navy began to turn its attention to NATO operations in Europe. CRD21 ...
SEAL Training Ops at Coastal River Division 21
Coastal River Division 21 had a small SEAL detachment assigned to our Operations Department during its years at Great Lakes. Led by LT “Lee” and 4 – 5 senior enlisted ...
AN/GRC-109 “Special Forces” Radio Set
Probably my favorite radio set. The “COOL METER” is Pegged on this one! Used extensively from the early 1960′s through the 1970′s and beyond by US military Special Forces worldwide, ...
SCR-284 Radio Set
The SCR-284 was used extensively during WWII. Designed as a portable field radio, the complete field set could be carried by 3 men or it could be mounted in vehicles. ...
AN/GRC-9 Radio Set
US Marines of a Tactical Air Control Party with the First Marine Division in combat at the Chosin Reservoir operating a GRC-9 transmitter-receiver. Note the M-1 rifle cleaning rod likely ...
“Canteen” Shortwave Radio Receiver
One recent project was building a replica of the “canteen radio” that was used by US Army personnel in the Japanese POW camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during WWII. ...