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Center For Special Warfare ( JFKCENSPWAR ) March 1965 - November 1966 8th Special Forces Group ( Abn ) 1st Special Forces Fort Gulick, Panama Canal Zone November 1966 - August 1968 |
Forces Group  ( Airborne ) 1st Special Forces |
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... and SCUBA Duba Too Bob Wirt ( RA ... Sergeant E-5 ) Three Qualified: Medics - Weapons - Demolitions Shoot`Em-Up; Blow`Em-Up; Sew`Em-Up |
 Liberation Of The Oppressed |
Keeping Our Hand In The Game And Our Chutes Open Whenever Possible While On Separate Duty From Fort Bragg NC To Fort Sam Houston TX - 1965
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OJT @ Fort Benning; Surgical Lab @ Fort Bragg Then Orders To The 5th SFG
My Uncle Sam Sends Me To Spanish Lab At Berlitz In DC Instead, Then On To
The 8th Special Forces Group ( Abn ) Fort Gulick, Panama Canal Zone
![[Image]](Army/10.jpg) Private Slicksleeve Wirt Hasn't Yet Learned How To Wear His Hat - 1965 |
 Boat Drills With The Somoza Guardia Puerto Cabezas Nicaragua 1967 |
 Engineering Excellence - The Rio Coco At Capo Gracias A Dios Nicaragua 1968 |
 Major Firepower Expended For A Couple Of Parrotfish - Panama 1967 |
 Bob Story and Snorkle The Airborne Scuba Dog - San Blas Islands 1967 |
 Remains Of The Bay Of Pigs Air Support Puerto Cabezas International - 1967 |
 Scuba Team Invites Lobster To Lunch Outside Colon Harbor, Panama - 1967 |
 Preparing For Yet Another Shark Hunt 150 Foot Deep-Dive Colon Panama 1967 |
 Team Deep-Dive Exercises Off The LCM Outside Colon Harbor Panama - 1967 |
The 8th Group Scuba School was run throughout the mid-1960s and on into the `70s by MSG Bob Mulcahy and his cadre of dedicated instructors. The task was clandestine nighttime infiltration in support of Special Forces operations in troublespots throughout the world. We swam with sharks and parachuted into the ocean in the dead of night, not for the physical challenge that it truly was, but to be certain the men on the A-Team truly were ready - Anytime, Anywhere - to accomplish the mission without hesitation and with the skills required for both entering and exiting any area of operation undetected.
President John F Kennedy ~ 1962
Para-Scuba & Tree Jump School, 1968
Help In Defying Gravity Offered By Compassionate Scuba School Instructor
Suiting Up For A Tree Jump - 1967 Fort Gulick - Panama Canal Zone
Water Drop In Gatun Lake Panama - 8th SFG Scuba School Training 1967
Nylon Tree-Jump Suits With 100' Rappel Rope In Pouch To Allow For Escape and Evasion From Treetops
Preparing For Water Jump From C-46 In Atlantic Off Colon Panama 1967
It Doesn't Make Much Sense To Take The Time & Effort To Get The Training If You Don't Actually Land On ( Or In ) Your Target ( Large Menacing Tree )
Applying Just A Touch Of C-4 To The Target's Anchorline - Panama CZ 1967
It Seemed As Good Idea At First To Keep This Green Guy On As A Mascot
But He Made A Better Meal, With A Taste More Like Boa Constrictor Than Chicken
MSG Mulcahy leads the endless morning run - Open Road Running, Open Ocean Swimming, Flat On Your Back With Most Excellent Flutter-Kicks and Hello-Darlins' Earn A Little Extra Jump-Time.
OJT At Major Hirsch's Special Forces (Abn) Dental Clinic, Fort Gulick, Panama CZ 1967
Same Fine Individualized Service Offered In The Jungle At No Extra Cost - Or Pain.
Civic Action Medical Mission In Conjunction With Counter-Insurgency Guardia Training
On The Mosquito Coast Just Below The Rio Coco, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua - 1968
Sgt Bob Wirt Administers A Novocaine Mandibular Block Before Extracting Nicaraguan Farmer's Abcessed Tooth. Like Major Hirsch always said: You can teach a monkey to pull teeth, but it takes four years of dental school to learn how to save them.
Nicaraguan Patients Of Deployed A-Team's Sick Call Clinic Line Up For Some Free Bar-Soap And Vitamins. Amazing what multi-vitamins did for the kids and what a simple aspirin tablet did for the parents. The common, everyday medical advances of the 20th Century can't be taken for granted in the jungle.
On the Mosquito Coast Near Puerto Cabezas Nicaragua. It Didn't Look Anywhere Near This Organized During The Midnight Infiltration Exercises But No One Drowned
Boat Drills For Somoza's Guardia Nacional In Training To Interdict Ongoing Sandinista Incursions In The Area
~ The Sea ~
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.
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