UPCOMING EVENTS The Memorial grounds provide a fitting background for many types of ceremonies: graduations, retirements, reenlistments, award ceremonies and other special occasions. For those wanting to reserve the Vietnam Unit Memorial grounds for other special events, please contact Naval Base Coronado Public Affairs office at 619-545-2632.
To celebrate the Coronado homefront, the City of Coronado and Naval Base Coronado are honoring local military spouses of active duty and veterans with a free base tour and lunch on Friday, May 10. Interested military spouses should call the City at 619-522-7300 to be placed on the reservation list as space is limited. The … Coronado honoring local military spouses of active duty and veterans
Unlike the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., where names are listed chronologically by year of death, the Vietnam Veterans Unit Memorial at Naval Amphibious Base is arranged alphabetically by last names. The memorial contains the names of the Coast Guard and Navy personnel lost in Vietnam. Included in the names on the wall, are the 50 … Swift Boat Sailors Association Memorial Ceremony – Honoring The 50 Swift Boat Sailors “Still on Patrol”
A Vietnam-era Swift Boat, U.S. Navy #PCF 816, made a three-day stop at the Oceanside Harbor last week. The Swift Boat Sailors Association restored the boat over the past year, taking it down to bare metal. It had been housed at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. Oceanside’s harbor hosted the first public viewing in what will … Swift Boat tour up the California coast
By Hoa Quách, Patch Staff | May 8, 2013 11:40 pm ET | Updated May 10, 2013 12:24 pm ET Don Farrell of Encinitas was an officer in charge of a swift boat 43 years ago in Vietnam, and the memories swiftly flooded back when he boarded one of the all-aluminum vessels this week. For visiting sailiors, it triggered a … Maritime Museum has restored a Navy swift boat—the only working one of its kind in the world.