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•   Reynold (Ron) Rahmer (1970)  26/6
•   Philip Hall (1966)  16/5
•   Robert Bryant (1977)  13/5
•   Michael Reinhard (1976)  8/2
•   Santino Evancho, Mm-3 (1974)  6/3
•   Robert Catton (1963)  27/8
•   Richard Blanchette (Blanchette) (1962)  26/8
•   Fred Duryea (Duryea) (1975)  26/8
•   Thomas D. Taylor (1955)  26/8
•   Stephen Petri (1964)  31/7
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7 live in Alabama
5 live in Arizona
2 live in Arkansas
1 lives in Armed Forces Europe
13 live in California
4 live in Colorado
8 live in Connecticut
2 live in Delaware
36 live in Florida
6 live in Georgia
2 live in Idaho
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23 live in New Jersey
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13 live in North Carolina
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21 live in Ohio
4 live in Oklahoma
4 live in Oregon
38 live in Pennsylvania
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1 lives in South Dakota
7 live in Tennessee
18 live in Texas
35 live in Virginia
4 live in Washington
11 live in West Virginia
10 live in Wisconsin
1 lives in Wyoming
1 lives in Ukraine
25 location unknown
102 are deceased

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•   Tom Cruser (1977)  24/9
•   Stanley Skokowski (1962)  24/9
•   Kenneth Tinsley (1966)  25/9
•   James Skarupa (1968)  26/9
•   Jr. Harvey N Honney (1961)  27/9
•   Andrew J. Kapolka (1979)  27/9
•   Robert D. Wood (1969)  27/9
•   Terry Manner (1975)  29/9
•   William Birkle (1968)  30/9
•   Glenn Ness (1976)  3/10
•   Stephen Petri (1964)  3/10
•   Michael Reinhard (1976)  4/10
•   Alan Carnahan (1982)  10/10
•   Ted Lawson (1959)  11/10
•   Thomas D. Taylor (1955)  14/10
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See Dominic Announcement

Visit the USS Fort Snelling LSD-30 Facebook site
https://www.facebook.com/groups/35980707612/

Welcome to the USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) 1954 - 1985 web site.
Never Forget 911 


Site of USS Fort Snelling LSD-30 Monument

2019 Memorial Service
 

 

Fort Snelling Monument - Fort Snelling National Cemetery

We had a wondrful time in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Thanks so much to Robert and Kathleen Bergant for all the hard work desigining the monument and coordinating the installation; and to all the folks that had a part in creating and funding the USS Fort Snelling Monument. Bravo Zulu!

Site of USS Fort Snelling LSD-30 Monument

 

The Year of the Goat!
 

https://youtu.be/o3IY8H31HME

Here is a video about the Fort Snelling National Cemetery , Minneapolis, Minnesota
https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftsnelling.asp

 

GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS !

Greetings to all USS Fort Snelling LSD-30 Crewmembers and families:
 BRAVO ZULU! 

Link to 2017 Memorial Service at Fort Snelling National Cemetery:

http://www.ussfortsnellinglsd30.com/2017-Memorial-Service-LSD-30.htm

Link to Video of the Fort Snelling National Cemetery taken during the tour of the site: 

https://youtu.be/o3IY8H31HME

There are many benefits for Veterans, please click these links to learn more:

Visit https://www.cem.va.gov/cen

https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftsnelling.asp

Andy Anderson, Webmaster

USS Fort Snelling LSD-30

ICFA-IC-1 1955-1959

ceanders@hiwaay.net

I want to get in touch with as many of my shipmates as possible! Please send me an email and I'll get the ball rolling. This period of our lives, believe it or not, molded who we are today...somewhat!

I ran the ship's store, geedunk,and inventory for over two years. So if you served on the Fort between 1972 and 1975 you know me! If you purchased cigs for 1.25 a carton, you looked me in the eyes.

Let's get acquainted again, it's not too late. My crew was Kevin Gibson, Bobby Whitehead, and Bo Bonds. Bo received an early discharge due to an unknown illness.

Come on Henry, Stevie, Joe, you guys are out there. Email me and I'll make sure we all get in touch! dunbarcbp@aol.com

Michael Dunbar
 

 Click LSD-30 Photos to see some of the excitement we had. 

Andy Anderson ceanders@hiwaay.net
256-345-5711

I have added some photos here:

http://ceanders.jalbum.net/USS-Fort-Snelling-LSD-30-Reunion-2010

Click on Shipmates Profiles, update your profile, add your your photos.

George Passed in 2012 See Obituary in the "Memory" page.

Ken Vey, George Wagner, and James Berry at the Navy Memorial Washington DC 9-24-2011

2011 Reunion Photo - Washington DC
 

Please note: Date you reported on board - It may need updating, I used the best info I had, however, many are incorrect, so please update your profile including your email if possible.

Please send this link to all your USS Fort Snelling LSD-30 friends, ask them to log in and update their profile.  

C.E. "Andy" Anderson, USN, ICFA-IC1 - 1955-1959

ceanders@hiwaay.net
 

Click on the Photos Buffalo, NY for some of the photos of the 2010 Reunion. Go to your profile and add your photos.

Click this link to see US Navy 2008 Pictures Slide Show

http://www.navy.mil/media/OtherMedia/YearInReview/yir08/start_here.html

Visit the US Navy Site http://www.navy.mil/swf/index.asp
ANNOUNCEMENTS

PETE KRINNER BM, USS FORT SNELLING (LSD-30)

It is with tears from my heart and a loss in my life that I inform
Everyone of the passing of Pete Krinner.
Pete on the on the Fort Snelling with me and Ray Batiato around 1969.
Pete was a Bosin mate and has been my friend for over 40 years
He lived in Long Island about 15 minutes away and we got together frequently.
He was a dedicated father and a loving husband.
We knew all of each other’s plans and dreams. We drank and laugh in recent months.
His wake included Naval Honors and a flag being given to his wife, I could not have been
any prouder of our US Navy then of that honor.
I also gave a Navy pin that was given to me by our shipmate “Tom Loughrey”, that will be
with Pete. He will be cremated and his ashes will be put in the ocean where we all belong.
I salute him and I and many others will miss him.

Pete and his wife Terry were active members of the Fort Snelling.
They attended our New Port Rhode Island reunion and I think Charleston, SC.

Dominic Gerand
ps I have a picture but unable to down load at this time.

My father James T. Berry was honored to serve in the US Navy from 1958 to 1962 and his years on the USS Fort Snelling were so special to him. The vanity license plate on his car read: "LSD 30"!

Dad passed away on July 1, 2013 after a short battle with cancer. He was so looking forward to this year's reunion in Newport.

I will be posting many old Fort Snelling photos and reunion pictures on his behalf over the next few months. Please contact me at colleenonline@cox.net if you would like a copy of any photos sent directly to you.

Thank you!

Colleen Berry Conway

 

  RAMON BATIATO
12/15/11 02:14 AM
 
  Hello Andy,

Would you please post this on the Forts page - it is concerning the Fort being Sprayed in 69. Ray

We invite you to share this announcement of a new study at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) with other interested individuals or organizations***


In response to the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 and an ensuing request from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the IOM has assembled a committee of experts to conduct an epidemiological study comparing the health status of the SHAD veterans with a comparison population. This study will build on knowledge gained from a prior study conducted by IOM between 2003 and 2007.

As part of the data collection process, the committee will plan and conduct meetings to receive suggestions and input from SHAD veterans about their experiences so that the study can be informed by the insights of these veterans.

The first meeting of the Committee on Shipboard Hazard and Defense will take place on January 19-20, 2012, in Washington, DC. A second meeting is planned for February 23-24, 2012 in California.

The charge to the committee and a list of the membership of the committee is available at http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=IOM-BSP-10-08 and at an IOM study site: http://www.iom.edu/Activities/Veterans/SHADII.aspx

Background
From 1962 to 1973, more than 5,800 military personnel, mostly Navy personnel and Marines, participated in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense) -- a series of tests of U.S. warship vulnerability to biological and chemical warfare agents. Only some of the involved military personnel were aware of these tests at the time. Many of these tests used simulants, which are substances with the physical properties of chemical or biological warfare agents, that were thought at the time to be harmless. The existence of these tests came to light many decades later.

In 2007, the Institute of Medicine??s Medical Follow-up Agency (MFUA) published a report on the long term health effects of participation in Project SHAD, based on the results of a health survey (the report is available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11900). In the new study, an expert committee will work in conjunction with IOM's MFUA and build on knowledge gained from the previous IOM study. The SHAD II study will use the established list of SHAD participants and the comparison population determined from the prior study.
The results of the study will be reported in a brief IOM report by the study committee and an analytic paper for publication.
Input can be provided to the committee through written comments and materials submitted over the course of the study, and through brief presentations at the committee meetings that will be held in January and February 2012.

Written materials can be submitted to the committee through the IOM staff at the postal address shown below. Please note that any comments or materials submitted to the committee in paper or electronic form will normally become part of the study??s public record.

Questions about the study or providing materials for the committee??s consideration should be directed to study director Lois Joellenbeck (ljoellen@nas.edu) or program associate Jon Sanders (jsanders@nas.edu).


Lois Joellenbeck, Dr.P.H.
Study Director
Institute of Medicine
The National Academies
500 Fifth St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
202-334-1715
ljoellen@nas.edu