Rick Woolard, Navy SEAL, remembers the first time he and his men engaged the enemy on patrol.
This oral history was recorded by staff at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, Virginia. To learn more about the naval museum and its new exhibit, "The Ten Thousand-Day War at Sea: The U.S. Navy in Vietnam," visit www.hrnm.navy.mil. If you are a Navy Vietnam veteran in the Hampton Roads area and would like to record your oral history, please contact 757-322-3108 or HRNavalMuseum@navy.mil.
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