"Patches" Watson Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery 4/11 TOMORROW!

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"Patches" Watson Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery 4/11 TOMORROW!

Dan Arnes
Administrator
Short Notice!

The Arlington National Cemetery burial date for Navy SEAL James
"Patches" Watson is Friday, April 11th 2014. You must be at the Admin
building by 1:15PM for the 2PM service. Please feel free to share this
information.
 
Chief Watson is an original plank owner of SEAL Team TWO and, as one of
the original "men with green faces," served three tours in Vietnam. For
his valor, he earned sixteen combat decorations, four of which are
Bronze Stars, all with Combat "V". His twenty year Navy career included
twenty-five training schools, eleven years on the SEAL Teams, including
serving as a CIA-sponsored adviser to the Provincial Reconnaissance
Unit (PRU) Program in South Vietnam. These units investigated and
attacked covert communist operations in South Vietnam. He also served
with the Vietnamese LDNN (Lien Doi Nguoi Nhai), Vietnamese SEAL
counterparts trained by the U.S. in eleven missions into Cambodia.

Dan
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kid purington
...Rest Easy,.. Chief Jim "Patches" Watson...an Honor to have known and worked with you SEAL..
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Frog
Rest in Peace my friend; a fine man who loved his country, SEALS, and had no fear.

jp