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NAMES OF CURRENT DETACHMENT MEMBERS ARE NOT TO BE DISPLAYED WITHOUT THE
AUTHORIZATION OF THE DETACHMENT COMMANDER |
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| 2014 |
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| 2013 |
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| Ambassador:
Eric D. Benjaminson |
Company Commander:
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| 2012 |
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| Ambassador:
Eric D. Benjaminson |
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| 2011 |
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| Ambassador:
Eric D. Benjaminson |
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| 2010 |
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Ambassador:
Eunice S. Reddick / Eric D. Benjaminson
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| 2009 |
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| Ambassador:
Eunice S. Reddick |
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| 2008 |
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| Ambassador:
Eunice S. Reddick |
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| 2007 |
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| Ambassador:
R.
Barrie Walkley / Eunice S. Reddick |
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| 2006 |
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| Ambassador:
R.
Barrie Walkley |
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| 2005 |
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| Ambassador:
R.
Barrie Walkley |
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1992
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1991
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1990
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1989
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1988
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| Ambassador: Warren
Clark, Jr. |
Company Commander:
Detachment Commander:
Watchstanders:
Ron L. King |
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1987
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1986
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1985
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1984
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1983
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1982
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| Ambassador: Francis
Terry McNamara |
Company Commander:
NCOIC: GySgt. Vernon W. Harrison
Watchstanders:
Walter Anthony Haversat |
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1981
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1980
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1979
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1978
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1977
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1976
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| Ambassador: Andrew
L. Steigman |
Company Commander:
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Watchstanders:
Doug Holt, Richard E. Poulin Jr., Steve Wise, Dick York |
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1975
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| Ambassador:
John
A. McKesson III / Andrew
L. Steigman |
Company Commander:
NCOIC: GySgt. Daniel Richardson
Watchstanders:
Richard E. Poulin Jr., Cpl. Levi A. Hochstetler, Cpl. Paul Lewis, |
Comments by Paul Lewis 24JUL2013: I
was a LCpl at the time serving at my first
Embassy. I still remember Sgt Paul
Smithers from Kentucky, Cpl Oren Harvey from Texas, Cpl Levi
Hochstetler from
Wisconsin, and Gunny Daniel Richardson and his wife Christine (and
their
adopted pet monkey) from Yreka, California.
I bought an old Plymouth Belvedere and drove everywhere there was a
road. Cpl Harvey and I drove over a
bridge that had been made by cutting a huge tree in half lengthwise to
get to
and from a village called Cocobeach on Gabon's northern border.
We could see Equatorial Guinea across the
river, but it was a communist country - and it was 1975 - so we stayed
on our
side of the river.
We used the Embassy boat for fishing (barracuda didn't
taste bad at all), water skiing, trips to islands in the estuary, and
one very
wet search for a lost boater one night in a storm. We didn't find
him, but we looked for hours
in some very big waves.
We ran everywhere but especially up to the ambassador's
house or down the beach. A couple of the
guys from the Romanian Embassy (a couple of doors down the street from
the
Marine House) would race against us on a regular basis. We'd jump
into the water across the street
from the Marine House when we were done.
We got a chance to fire Uzis with the French Foreign Legion guys at
their camp.The 'Bar American' opened its doors directly across the
street from the Marine House, the place to hang out at night was the
Club Komo,
OPEC came to town and threw up flags along all the main roads and the
crowds
would line the streets when Omar Bongo was driven down the
boulevard. I can still taste the nems from the Bar
Chinois, and the ham and cheese sandwiches we used to get from a corner
restaurant behind the embassy near the
USAID building. The Marine Ball was at the Ambassadors house, his
secretary Wanda Kennicott was the bell of the ball, and there were
these
fantastic native carved wood panels around the top of the pool house
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Cpl Harvey took hundreds of pictures and I believe Gunny
Richardson's wife took a lot as well. I
didn't keep in touch with anyone there when I transferred to Santo
Domingo in
late 1975. |
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| Ambassador: John
A. McKesson III |
Company Commander:
NCOIC: GySgt. Daniel Richardson
Watchstanders:
Cpl. Oren Harvey, Cpl. Levi A. Hochstetler, LCpl. Paul Lewis, Sgt. Paul
Smithers,
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1969
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1968
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| Ambassador: David
M. Bane |
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1967
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| Ambassador: David
M. Bane |
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1966
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| Ambassador: David
M. Bane |
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1965
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| Ambassador: David
M. Bane |
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1964
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1963
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1962
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1961
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1960
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| Ambassador: W.
Wendell Blancké |
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Alan
W. Lukens presented credentials as Charge d'Affaires ad interim on Aug
17, 1960.
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1959
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1958
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1957
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1956
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1955
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1954
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1953
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1952
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1951
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1950
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1949
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