Welcome to the USS Wiltsie DD-716 Guestbook Forum

Years Served: 1967-68…I served with COMDESRON SEVEN and the Wiltsie was one of our destroyers in our squadron. I was very impressed with the Captain at the time. He was a reservist and a professor in civilian life called into active duty for Vietnam. We were in the Gulf of Tonkin together.

Years Served: 1959 to Nov. 1962…I served under Captain W.S.Slocum and two other captains , one of them referred as crazy Jake. Went to many countries. Paroled the Gulf of Siam, now called the Gulf of Thailand in the South China sea. I am retired on Logan Martin Lakes, (Coosa River) in Ragland, Alabama.

Years Served: 1958-1960…My tour in the fire control group on the Wiltsie was the beginning of my 50-year career as a physicist, specializing in microwave engineering. Am still working in the industry and loving every minute of it. Residing in the Sacramento, CA area.

Years Served: 1962-1963…Left USN June 1963. Worked as construction electrician out of IBEW Local 48 in Portland, Or. for 35 years. Retired at age 56 (1997) and moved to Cagayan De Oro city, Philippines. It is my my wife’s hometown. We have been married 46 years and have 2 grown children who live in Portland.

Years Served: April 1958 thru March 1962…I am retired now, living in Spokane Valley, Washington.