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Dedicated to the sailors who served aboard the USS Platte AO 24
A photo and video essay.

Greetings from Richard "Tank" Sherley, BM3, 1965-1966

I ran the starboard high line as well as fuel rigs.  I also rode Platte as a transit in 1967 while trying to catch the USS Collett(DD-730). A ship tore down rig #7 and I worked all night with BM1 Johnson and crew putting it back together, because we had a ship at daylight to refuel with that rig and deck was really short handed at that time.

I remember both GMG2 Sellers and GMG3 Lowe.  Joe was from Pecos, TX and we steamed together along with "Dusty" Garrett from Tulia.  In one picture Dusty, Turtle(BM3 Hanold) and I are eating at the Spanish Gate in Subic.  Other pictures have BM3 Rios, Teddy Heos and BM1 Levesque in them.

Note: new pictures are being added daily. So check back.

Pulling into Subic, 1965	BM1 Levesqueue, great Boats!	USS Bennington (CVA-20) 1965	Cargo transfer with stores ship, South China Sea; 1965
Teddy Heos(rt) and yours truly on Grande Island; 1965	HMAS Vampire off coast of Vietnam; 1966	The Big Three, SN Dusty Garrett, BM3 Turtle Hanold & BM3 Tank Sherley	stowaway; Feb 1966
Yours truly at Cua Viet, RVN in later years; 1968	Forecastle looking aft	Taken from the USS Kawisawee AO-146.  I was high lined to her from the Platte. Next day I rode the highline to USS Collett. 1967	Grande Island taxi; 1965

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