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Sorry. That wasn't me. I was with the squadron.

I'm glad I wasn't on the Iwo. I had gotten off that crappy boat in April of 1990 after a six-month cruise with HMM-365. That ship was a real tub compared to the Guam.

Welcome to the site! Which squadron were you with?

On the Guam, I think we were only involved in MIO for a really short time, and that was just before Eastern Exit. I think we had a Canadian or British ship with us at the time, too, but I can't...

Whoa, now. I didn't mean to offend you. Why all of the accusations all of a sudden?

You didn't look through that whole float book. If you did, you would have seen me. They did misspell my...

I was on the Guam. I was enlisted in those days. I was with MWSS-274, but I had only been attached to them for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. I had been with MWSS-272 and HMM-365 before that.

I...

I remember all of that, except one part: there were definitely SEALs there. I remember seeing them. I talked to a couple of them. You couldn't miss them. They were dressed differently from...

Compared to Desert Storm, it was a really small operation and it was only about 10 days before the air war started, so it's easy to understand how it was forgotten.

Is it wrong for me to think that most people don't know about or never knew about Operation Eastern Exit in 1990?