Don McAninch:
CLASS OF 1966
Two Rivers High SchoolClass of 1966
Nashville, TN
Aiken High SchoolClass of 1966
Aiken, SC
Kennedy Junior High SchoolClass of 1963
Aiken, SC
Aiken Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Aiken, SC
Millbrook Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Aiken, SC
Don's Story
Military
After dropping out of Memphis State in 1967, I got my draft notice 5 days later I decided to join the Navy with Johnny Crockett but we found out that there was only one openning in the regular Navy and one in the reserves ,I choose the regular and that was the last time I was in Nashvile. I went to bootcamp in San Deago ,went to Polaris missile school in Dam neck Va.,didn't graduate and got sent to my first destroyer the USS ManleyDD940, where I was trained to become a FTG (Gun fire control tech ).I went to the Mediterrainian cruise in 1969.The Manley went to dry dock and I got transfered to the USS richard E. Kraus DD849, where I lived for t...Expand for more
he next 4 yrs. During those years I traveled all over the globe,the North Atlantic,Canada,South America, Africa,Red Sea, through the Panama Canal to the South Pacific and Vietnam where I engaged in battle in both North and South Vietnam,Cambodia. I was selected to recieve the Vietamese Cross of Gallantry medal with a bronze star from the Vietnam Government and a Letter of Commendation from the United States for my involvement in the war along with the National Defense medal, Combat action medal,Good Conduct medal,Vietnam Service medal. After returning from Vietnam I recieved My Honorable discharge and moved to Houston Texas where I live now.
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