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Admirals Honor Sailor Reenlisting Aboard Near War Zone
Chief Petty Officer Charles Claus, after ten years in the Navy, reenlisted for four years aboard USS Kretchmer in the South China Sea. Two five star admirals and the ship’s crew lauded him as the laundry ran a special dress whites fit for the moment. Claus, listed from Carter Lake Iowa, marked the occasion the same day Pentagon admirals visited.
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USS
Claus
Navy
Pentagon
Carter Lake
Iowa
B. J. Semmes Jr
7Th Fleet
Viet Nam
Kretchmer
Tom Connolly
Naval Operations
Cmdr
Clarence E. Chinn
Grand Junction
Colo
Panama Canal
China
PO 3
C. Howard Garland
Johnson City
Tenn
R. J. Stong
Philadelphia
Semmes
Clous
Clou
Adm
Flagshi
Connollly
Kretchme
Castor
South China Sea