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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...tal corpsmen may be assigned the responsibility of independent duty aboard ships and submarines; Fleet Marine Force, Special Forces and Seabee units, and at ...1 and remained through the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. Following the war, the title Surgeon's Steward was abolished in favor of [[Apothecary]], a po
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...bombing''' (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) during the Lebanese Civil War, two [[truck bomb]]s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of the Un ...nam War, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II.<ref name=HouseReport>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-09-30
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• USS Brister (DE-327)
  ==World War II operations== ...' commenced conversion to a [[radar picket]] escort vessel at [[Charleston Naval Shipyard]]. She was recommissioned on 21 July 1956 as '''DER-327''' and re
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• USS Hissem (DE-400)
  ...ed to DER-400. The special purpose of DER (Destroyer Escort Radar picket) ships was the detection of aircraft. Their chief role was to extend the [[Distan With the war in [[Europe]] over, the destroyer escort prepared to join the [[Pacific Fle
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• USS Kretchmer (DE-329)
  ...{sclass|Edsall|destroyer escort}} built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided des == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Forster (DE-334)
  |Ship fate=Loaned to South Vietnam, 25 September 1971 |Ship country=South Vietnam
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• USS Lowe (DE-325)
  ...gainst [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post-war she was converted and served the Navy as a weather ship and then as a radar == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Newell (DE-322)
  ...gainst [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoys]]. Post war, she served in various capacities before being finally decommissioned. == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Koiner (DE-331)
  ...gainst [[submarine]] and air attack for Navy vessels and [[convoy]]s. Post-war, she was loaned to the [[U.S. Coast Guard]], and also reclassified as a [[r == World War II North Atlantic operations ==
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...all|destroyer escort}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and pr ==World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Vance (DE-387)
  ''Vance'' next got underway on 12 April, with the other ships of CortDiv 45 and a Navy-manned destroyer escort division, to screen the 10 ...of Navy destroyers. Three days later, after an extensive hunt, the relief ships sank ''U-616''.
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• USS Camp (DE-251)
  |Ship fate=Transferred to [[South Vietnam]], 13 February 1971 |Ship country=South Vietnam
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  ...ll-class]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. ...tactics, maneuvering, and the hundreds of other tasks demanded of a man-o-war.
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• USS Haverfield (DE-393)
  ...''-class]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and pr ==World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)
  |Ship honors=Six [[battle star]]s for [[World War II]] service ...ong Kiet'' and pennant number HQ-16 are confirmed by ''Jane{{'s}} Fighting Ships 1973-1974'', p. 592, and the United States Coast Guard Historian's Office a
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• USS Absecon (AVP-23)
  ...<br/>Transferred to [[South Vietnam]] 15 June 1972<br/>Captured by [[North Vietnam]] May 1975 ...tnam]]{{'}}s [[Republic of Vietnam Navy]], and the [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]]{{'}}s [[Vietnamese People's Navy]].
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  |Ship honors=Three [[battle star]]s for [[World War II]] service ...y transferred to Coast Guard September 26, 1966<br/>Transferred to [[South Vietnam]] January 1, 1971<br/>Acquired by [[Republic of the Philippines]] April 197
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• USS Castle Rock (AVP-35)
  ===World War II=== ===Post-World War II===
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• USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36)
  |Ship honors=One [[battle star]] for [[World War II]] service ...ed permanently to Coast Guard 26 September 1966<br/>Transferred to [[South Vietnam]] 27 December 1971<br/>Taken over by [[Republic of the Philippines]] April
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• RVNS Ngo Quyen (HQ-17)
  |Ship country=South Vietnam |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|South Vietnam|naval}}
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