Hello. I'm seeking information regarding the location of submarines during Vietnam as I am trying to work through the Blue Water Act. I know my father had a Vietnam Service Medal and he entered the Navy in 1967. He served 25 years, so obviously through the end of the war. The qualifying Blue Water Act "offshore" definition is very defined - how can I find out where exactly he was? Seems like there isn't much info out there regarding subs during Vietnam.
Lorrin - If you are still monitoring History Hub for responses to your original inquiry you should be aware that several new locations have been added to the agent orange presumptive exposure waters and visitation to these new locations are frequently documented on submarine deck logs. You should consider reinitiating you search focusing on Guam, American Samoa, and Thailand as defined in the PACT Act of 2022.
To shorten the search process, we have extracted dates, times and locations of these events from VA records and where possible, cross linked them back to available corresponding NARA deck log pages for the date of visitation. We have also plotted tracks showing the day-by-day movement during the relevant time periods.
If you (or anyone else) will provide the submarine name and approximate dates of interest we will search our database of over 1,000,000 records and provide whatever information we can locate as shown in the below example. You can either respond to this current thread or post a new inquiry in this "Community".
Note - This is not an official NARA sanctioned process but is being offered as a public service in recognition of the difficulties we encountered doing our deck log research over 5 years ago.
Lorrin - If you are still monitoring History Hub for responses to your original inquiry you should be aware that several new locations have been added to the agent orange presumptive exposure waters and visitation to these new locations are frequently documented on submarine deck logs. You should consider reinitiating you search focusing on Guam, American Samoa, and Thailand as defined in the PACT Act of 2022.
To shorten the search process, we have extracted dates, times and locations of these events from VA records and where possible, cross linked them back to available corresponding NARA deck log pages for the date of visitation. We have also plotted tracks showing the day-by-day movement during the relevant time periods.
If you (or anyone else) will provide the submarine name and approximate dates of interest we will search our database of over 1,000,000 records and provide whatever information we can locate as shown in the below example. You can either respond to this current thread or post a new inquiry in this "Community".
Note - This is not an official NARA sanctioned process but is being offered as a public service in recognition of the difficulties we encountered doing our deck log research over 5 years ago.
