[Dx-qsl] FW: DISESTABLISH LORAN SUPPORT UNIT

[ALAN ZACK]

It is official. No more USCG LORAN stations.

First CW, now LORAN.

I was fortunate enough to visit almost every USCG operated LORAN station in
the world including Marcus, Iwo Jima, Kure, Johnston Isld, Yap, Palau,
Ulithi, Wake in the Pacific, Tan My, Hue Phi Bu, and Con Son in Vietnam,
Sattihipp and Lampang in Thailand, several in the Philippines, Hokkaido and
Okinawa Japan, Korea, Iceland, Lampadusa Isld in Italy, Slyt, Germany,
stations in Alaska and the North Atlantic and North Sea, Cape Christian
Greenland (The Coasties there would go to Thule for R&R) and many more, all
as a airborne radio operator/navigator on US Coast guard C-130's.

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> UNCLAS //N16560//
> SUBJ: DISESTABLISH LORAN SUPPORT UNIT
> A. COMDT COGARD WASHINGTON DC R 191237Z MAY 10
> B. DISESTABLISH LORAN UNIT CHECKLIST V2
> C. SILC OFCO ADDENDUM FOR LORAN-C CLOSURE ACTIVITIES
> 1. PER REF A, OFCO 035-10, LORAN SUPPORT UNIT COMPLETED REF B AND C
> ON 21 MAR 2011.
> 2. WITH THIS DISESTABLISHMENT, THERE ARE NO MORE LORAN UNITS IN THE
> UNITED STATES COAST GUARD. FOR OVER 67 YEARS, LORANIMALS STOOD THE
> WATCH. NOW, THE WATCH HAS BEEN SECURED. THEY HAVE MUCH TO BE PROUD
> OF.
> 3. CDR GARY M. THOMAS, USCG, FINAL LORAN SUPPORT UNIT COMMANDING
> OFFICER, SENDS.
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