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6 MONTHS AND COUNTING!
Reunion coming March 20-23, 2003
The Chopper Association has a contract for 80 rooms at the Holiday Inn Mt.
Pleasant (800-290-4004). Rooms are $82/night. They are reserved for March 20,21,22
(Thur, Fri. Sat.) of 2003. Price & room availability will not be guaranteed
after February 20 2003. So make your reservations now.
Make your reservation by
calling 1-800-290-4004; 1-843-884-6000 or by writing:
Holiday Inn
Mt. Pleasant
250 Johnnie Dodds Blvd.
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
Tell the clerk it is for the Chopper Reunion.
There will be no increase in the Chopper Reunion
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Eyeball to Eyeball With Nuclear Torpedoes
By Charles R. Ryan
Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Peter Huchthausen
provides an "I was there" account from the alternating perspectives of U.S. Navy
destroyer crews attempting to enforce a Cuban blockade and Soviet submariners who
unknowingly stumble into the largest antisubmarine warfare (ASW) force assembled during
the Cold War. Huchthausen (author of Cold War submarine tales K-19: The
Widowmaker and Hos
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CHOPPER ASSOCIATION DUES
Chopper Association dues are what makes this newsletter, the www.usschopper.com internet
site and some aspects of the reunion possible, and they'll be due again as of June 1,
2003. Some shipmates have paid ahead and those who joined in 2002 are good until
June 1, 2003. How to tell where you stand? Check the mailing label and it will
tell you your membership expiration date. Send your $10.00 annual dues payments to
Bob Stamper, Chopper Association Treasurer, 11301 Sandpine Road, Riverview, FL
33569.
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USS RAZORBACK (SS 394) IS COMING HOME!
Commissioned in January 1944 and the only submarine still afloat that
participated in the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. Converted into a GUPPY II in
the 50s, RAZORBACK was transferred to the Turkish Navy in 1970, RAZORBACK (now Murat Reis)
remained in active service, seeing combat in the Turkish-Greek wars over Cyprus, until
early 2002, when she was finally decommissioned in Golcuk, Turkey. Through the
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turned title of Murat Reis over to the mayor of North Little
Rock where she will serve as the centerpiece of a Museum dedicated to Turkish-American
relations. RAZORBACK remains in operational condition and plans are in progress by
Turkey to recommission Murat Reis and sail her with a joint Turkish-American crew back to
North America for a ceremonial transfer in North Little Rock in the Spring of 2003.
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