When I was in the brown water Navy it was in the 1980's after Vietnam SBU XI was half active duty and halve reserve we still had a few Vietnam vet's in the unit one was Chief Anderson he never talked about it. In Calf the Navy closed all the bases in the 1990's Mare Island was one of them so SBU XI got decommissioned the brown water Navy lives on with special boat team 22 on the east coast. The last unit before I retired was MIUW 103 a harbor security unit. Well I got to see Chief Anderson retire we were out in the field we use a car jack stand to ring him off and when they read the medals he received in Vietnam your mouth dropped he told us a few stories about it the only time he ever did. On active duty I was on the USS Mauna Kea AE-22 then the USS Proteus AS-19 the rest I did in the reserve. One thing about you Vietnam vet you guys are tight the last reunion for the USS Mauna Kea AE -22 90% that showed was the Vietnam era crew. My Dad was a crew chief on helicopters over in Nam a Navy crew chief on a Army helicopter they did salvage ops for the Navy and Army he was also a WW2 and Korea vet miss him he past away last year.