Benjamin Lichtenberg:  

I don't really know who if anyone remebers me, but I was on the football team my senior year, the wrestling team my junior and senior year, where I was second in OIA and third in stae my senior year and I was in the select chorus my freshman, sophomore and junior year. After graduation I went in the Marine Corps as a "Grunt" and got stationed in Okinawa and volnteered for Recon. I was able to travel around Asia, mainland Japan, Korea and the Philippines. I fell in love with the Philippines, I also got married there and my daughter was born there. After 4 years I got out and returned to Hawaii with a wife, daughter and a son on the way. With a wife, daughter and son on te way and no job after 9 months I enlisted in the Navy where I spent the next 16 years. I volunteered for SEAL Team and graduated the Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL training class #108. It was one of the more difficult things I have ever done, making it worse my sister Lillian died from cancer as I was going through the training in 1980. After BUD/S I was assigned to UDT-11 in Coronado, CA until it became SEAL Team 5 in May 1983. I stayed with SEAL Team 5 until 1989 when I was transferred to Virgina with "RED CELL". At RED CELL we were in Sna Frnacisco when the earthquake hit and the Philippines when Mount Pinatubo erupted. Rumors had it RED CELL caused both events. RED CELL was shut down in 1992 and I was assigned to SEAL Team 4 where I retired in 1995. During my Navy career I was afforded some of the best trai...Expand for more