clarence rodger hyler:  

I transfered to Beaumont high school in Beaumont, calif from Phineas banning high school in Wilmington, calif in October 1965 and graduated from Beaumont high in june 1966 and enlisted in the u.s. army airborne infantry and fought in south viet nam with the 173rd airborne brigade infantry from feb 1967 to feb 1968. our brigade received the presidential unit citation for hunting down and decimating numerous north Vietnamese regular regiments in our November 1967 DAK TO central highlands campaigns!!!. I returned to the 82nd airborne division at fort bragg, nc and was discharged from fort bragg in june 1969. I was in construction for over four years in the los Angeles area and decided to join the u.s. coast guard in sep 1974.my first assignment was to the coast guard loran station at yap island which is in Micronesia. I served onboard the cutters basswood(wlb 388) in guam, the venturous(wmec 625) in terminal island, calif and commissioned the cutter thetis(wmec 910) in key west, Florida as the chief boatswain's mate.while ashore I inspected u.s. and foreign flagged vessels for compliance with all u.s. maritime laws and inspected u.s. waterfront facilities while stationed at the coast guard marine safety office long beach, Calif. I was also a pollution investigator for three years in the los angeles/long beach harbor areas holding spillers responsible for clean-up costs and heavy federal civil penalties.my cases generated over $500,000.00 in federal civil penalties. I was in charge of waterfront facilities port security during the 1984 Olympics; the commercial facilities supervisors and ship owners helped the U.S.. coast guard keep the LA/L...Expand for more