Monday, October 12, 2020

Race Riot at Sea

 Via Reborn

 GulfOfTonkin

Why did they join the Navy? Maybe they were drafted and thought the Navy would be easier.  I do know when I enlisted some of the Army  men were sent to the Marines as they were short manpower. 


On the night of October 12, 1972, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk was steaming from Subic Bay in the Philippines to its combat station in the Tonkin Gulf. The ship’s complement consisted of 4,483 sailors, aircrew, and Marines, 302 of whom were black.

By the early morning of October 13, the ship had endured a sustained race riot that some consider to be the first and only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy.

As Gregory A. Freeman and the crewmen he interviewed tell the story, the Kitty Hawk riot had been brewing for some time. Many of the crew, black and white, were showing the stress of repeated deployments and long combat duty shifts on a hot, crowded warship. Black crewmembers had been allowed to live together in areas that became squalid, where white sailors feared to go and that NCOs did not inspect.

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3 comments:

  1. SSDD...

    My father had some experience with Africans in America attacking Whites back in the 1950s while in the Marine Corps.

    So, how many more decades, defiling, and deaths will it take before we join the battles being forced upon us and our children?

    Y'all have a nice day

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    1. Back to my childhood, please.

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  2. I left the corp Sept '72. Last 8 months I had duty at Pendleton. Discipline was crap. 1st by the incoming bored still young draftees, then the young college officers followed by "just return from hell" returning vets. Black power only showed its face during the night where groups roamed the base. While on SOG I was armed and always patrolling. But I never saw a riot or a fight break out. The mistake the Capt of the KH made was allowing races to segregate in living areas. One thing the Corp didn't allow.

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