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Veteran recalls unique undercover Navy service in Sahara and Hawaii
Dick Porter at a Marshall High School Veterans Roundtable recounts 1967 to 1971 Navy cryptographic work with 49 member Emergency Reaction Force. He describes undercover duties in Morocco and Hawaii encrypting communications for Admiral McCain, monitoring ships, and facing postwar treatment of troops while noting secrecy and CIA scrutiny. He urges students to consider a military career and expresses pride as a Navy veteran.
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Marshall High School
Dick Porter
United States Navy
Navy
Porter
Sheridan Twp
Morocco
Sahara Desert
Europe
United States
Africa
Hawaii
John S. McCain
Can
Johnson
Vietnam
John Hendler