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"Jerry Ballard, it's not often you find another shipmate. I really enjoyed the "San Berdo" and all the friends I made on it. One in particular was Cletus Arnold (Eddy Arnold's nephew). He wrote the words to a song about the ship and I wrote the…"
"I'm from Santa Clara, CA and enlisted in June, 1968. I was sent to RTC San Diego, CA. After graduating I was sent to Viet Nam to get on-board the USS Kemper County (LST 854). In Jun. of 1969 I was transferred to USS Monticello (LSD 35) after the…"
"I was on the USS Monticello from June , 1969 to March, 1971. In that time we were deployed to Viet Nam on Two occasions and for a period of three months we were in Bremerton, WA overhauling the ship to get it ready for a WestPac cruise. We…"
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