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Pictures and Comments  from John Waugh, Lakeside, CA

[ John has been around all of the PTFs ]

HAVE ANOTHER NASTY PICTURE

HERE ANOTHER PICTURE I HOPE YOU LIKE IT. I WILL SEE WHAT I CAN DO ABOUT BOAT MANUALS I MIGHT KNOW SOMEONE THAT CAN HELP, NO PROMISES.

TAKE CARE AND HAVE A GREAT DAY.

JOHN WAUGH

05/10/00

HERE IS ANOTHER NASTY PICTURE HOPE YOU LIKE IT

THE PICTURE I AM SENDING YOU IS ME WITH THE SAME SNAKE, BUT THE SNAKE WAS YOUNGER.

AS ALWAYS JOHN WAUGH

05/06/00

I WILL BE SENDING YOU PICTURES OF TRUMPY BOATS THAT I TOOK OFF THE COAST OF SAN DIEGO I HOPE YOU WILL LIKE THEM

I FEEL LIKE I AM ON A ROLL AND I THOUGHT I WOULD GIVE YOU THESE PICTURES.

ANOTHER  PICTURE I AM SENDING YOU IS OF SOME OF THE BOAT CREW THAT WERE WITH THE BOATS IN 1965.  MAYBE SOMEONE WILL RECOGNIZE THEMSELVES AS A YOUNG PERSON.

O YES ON LOOKING AT YOUR NEW WEB PAGE PICTURE I SEE THE AMERICAN FLAG SO I GUESS WE DID HAVE A BOAT WITH A FORWARD 40MM. O' WELL I GUESS I MISSED IT ON THIS ONE. TAKE CARE AND HAVE A GREAT DAY.

JOHN WAUGH

HERE IS ANOTHER PICTURE. I HOPE YOU LIKE IT, IT IS A PICTURE OF US GOING OUT  ON A DAYLIGHT OPERATION. I THINK I HAVE THIS PICTURE SCANNER WORKING OK AT THIS TIME.  I AM STILL PLAYING WITH IT.

ALSO I LIKE YOUR NEW WEB PICTURE. WHAT COUNTRY DOES THE BOAT BELONG TO? I KNOW IT'S NOT ONE OF OURS BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE THE INTERNAL REINFORCEMENT TO SUPPORT THE SHOCK OF A 40MM, ANYWAY IT'S A GREAT PICTURE. WELL, TAKE CARE AND I WILL BE SENDING YOU SOME MORE PICTURES.

JOHN WAUGH

I AM SORRY THAT THERE IS NO GREAT WAR STORY TO GO WITH IT, WE JUST WENT ABOVE THE DMV AND SHELLED A WEAPON AND AMMO DUMP AND SET IT ON FIRE WITH A BUNCH OF HE AND WP ROUNDS FROM OUR 81 AND 40MM GUN, AFTER WE DID THE DIRTY DEED WE CAME BACK HOME IT WAS EARLY MORNING WHEN I TOOK THE PICTURE FROM ANOTHER BOAT THERE WAS A TOTAL OF FOUR BOATS ON THIS OPERATION. SORRY THIS WAR STORY WAS A DULL ONE. 

DAN I HAVE SOME INFORMATION ON THE TWO BOATS THAT NO ONE REALLY HAS TALK ABOUT THAT IS THE ONE AND TWO BOAT, I HAVE NEVER SEEN THEM BUT I TALK TO SOME OF THE ORIGINAL CREWS WHO RODE THEM, THE STORY GOES IS THAT THE ONE AND TWO BOAT WERE NOT NASTYS AT ALL THEY WERE LEFT OVER PT BOATS FROM THE END OF WW2, THEY WERE 110 FEET LONG AND HAD FOUR V12 GAS ENGINES AND WERE A ENGINE MAN DREAM OR NIGHTMARE DEPENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT 

AT THAT TIME I AM TOLD YOU HAD TO VENT THE BOAT TWO HOURS BEFORE YOU SHUT THE ENGINES DOWN OR STARTED THEM UP YOU COULD NOT FUEL AT A PIER THERE WAS A SPECIAL FUELING BUOY OFF THE END OF THE PIER (I GUESS NO ONE LIKED THE AVGAS TO CLOSE TO THERE PIER) 

BOTH BOATS ENDED UP AS RADIO CONTROL TARGETS FOR SUBS (SO I AM TOLD) AT HAWAII, THE SUBS TRIED TO SINK THEM WITH TORPEDOES THEY WASTED A LOT OF TORPEDOES IN FACT THEY RAN OUT OF TORPEDOES ABOUT THE TIME ONE AND TWO BOAT RAN OUT OF FUEL THE SUBS SURFACED AND USED DECK GUNS TO END BOAT ONE AND TWO LIFE'S 

( A FOOT NOTE BOTH BOATS WERE ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTAL TYPES AND MADE OUT OF ALUMINUM) 

ALSO I HAVE SOME OTHER PICTURES I AM SURE YOU WILL LIKE AND IF I CAN FIGURE OUT HOW I CAN GET THE SLIDES TO SCAN I WILL SEND THEM ALSO I ALSO HAVE QUITE A FEW PICTURE OF BSU 1 PERSONAL YOU MIGHT WANT THEM TO PUT WITH YOUR BSU1 PAGE WHO KNOWS SOME ONE MIGHT SEE THEMSELVES WHEN THEY YOUNG.

WELL DAN THAT IS IT FOR NOW TAKE CARE .
JOHN WAUGH

I AM ATTEMPTING TO SEND YOU A PHOTO FROM A SCAN AND TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING AT THIS TIME BUT I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE THIS PICTURE SINCE IT WAS TAKEN ON A RETURN TRIP TO DANANG, HOPE YOU LIKE IT .

03/02/00

TO ANSWER SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS I LIVE IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY (LAKESIDE) AND I HAVE PICTURES AND SPECIFICATION ON THE NASTY BOATS. THE TRUMPY BOATS WERE BOATS BUILD BY TRUMPY BOAT YARD USING THE BLUEPRINTS AND SPECIFICATION OF THE NASTY BOATS AND BY AND LARGE WERE JUST AS GOOD AS THE NASTY BOATS. THE REASON THE TRUMPY BOATS WERE COMMISSION TO BE BUILT WAS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE NAVY WAS HAVING TROUBLE GETTING BOATS FROM NORWAY BECAUSE THE NAVY HAD TO BE ON A WAITING LIST ALONG WITH CHINA, RUSSIA, NORTH VIETNAM, AND ALL OTHER COUNTRIES THAT WANTED NASTY BOATS.

AS FAR AS HOW I FEEL ABOUT THE OSPREY I FEEL THAT THE OSPREY WERE A PIECE OF JUNK. I RODE ON THE NASTYS, TRUMPY, AND OSPREY BOATS. THE OSPREYS BOATS NEVER LEFT THE STATES.

WHEN I WAS IN THE NAVY THEY STAYED IN SAN DIEGO, THEY WERE ORIGINALLY DESIGN FOR GAS TURBINE, BUT THE ENGINES NEVER CAME, SO NAPIER DELTAS ENGINES WERE INSTALLED IN THE BOATS. THE BOATS WERE CUTTING HULLS NOT PLANING HULLS AND THEY DID NOT RIDE WELL AND THE ALUMINUM HULLS WERE ALWAYS CRACKING AND THE FUEL TANKS AND FUEL SYSTEM WERE ALWAYS LEAKING,

THE BOATS WERE ALWAYS BREAKING DOWN. ANYONE THAT RODE A NASTY WOULD TELL YOU THE OSPREY WAS NOT A WELL MADE BOAT. I THINK TWO OF THE OSPREY BOATS WENT TO FISH AND GAME AND ARE BEING USED HERE IN SAN DIEGO. WHEN I WAS IN SAN DIEGO I WAS STATIONED IN CORONADO WITH BOAT SUPPORT UNIT ONE (BSU1) AND IN DANANG AT THE SPOOK BASE WE WERE KNOWN AS MOBILE SUPPORT TEAM (MST) AND WHEN WE OPERATED WITH SMALL BOATS WE WERE KNOWN AS MOBILE SUPPORT TEAM SEALS (MSTS). ALL THREE UNITS WERE THE SAME GROUP OF BOAT PERSONAL BUT EACH COMMAND PERFORMED A DIFFERENT FUNCTION.

WHEN I HAVE MORE TIME I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THEM. WELL THAT IT FOR NOW SO TAKE CARE.
JOHN WAUGH

MY NAME IS JOHN WAUGH I WAS A EN2 WITH MST IN DANANG FOR TWO TOURS WITH THE NASTY BOATS 3 TO 12. MY TOURS WERE IN 1965 AND 1966. WE WORKED WITH SEAL TEAM ONE AND THE VIETNAM GOVERNMENT AND DID A NUMBER OF BLACK BAG OPERATIONS. 

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU AND WHAT YOUR INVOLVEMENT WAS WITH THE NASTY BOATS .
JOHN WAUGH