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SAS with the Maquis

By Ian Wellsted

Death in the Jungle: Diary of a Navy Seal

By Gary R. Smith, Alan Maki

Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 60003" data-attributes="member: 1"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">SURNAME</li> </ul> Riojas <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">FORENAME</li> </ul> Erasmo Elias (Doc Rio) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">UNIT</li> </ul> U.S.N. Seal Team 2 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RANK</li> </ul> Chief Hospital Corpsman <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">NUMBER</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">AWARD</li> </ul> Bronze Star with V device with oak leaf cluster <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">PLACE</li> </ul> South Vietnam 1968 and 1969 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</li> </ul> born 14.8.1931 Dolores,Texas awards Bronze Star with V (2),Purple Heart (5),Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with V,Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medal with V Doc Riojas was born in 1931 in Dolores, Texas. He enlisted in the U.S.  Navy on September 29, 1948, and completed basic training at NTC San  Diego, California, in January 1949. Riojas next attended U.S. Naval  Hospital Corpsman School at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego from  January to April 1949, followed by service as a Hospital Corpsman at the  U.S. Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland, from April 1949 to  June 1950. Petty Officer Riojas served at Naval Air Station Anacostia in  Washington, D.C., from June 1950 to August 1951, and then received  Field Medical Corpsman Training for service with the Marine Corps Fleet  Marine Force at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, from September to October  1951. His next assignment was as a Hospital Corpsman with 2nd Battalion,  1st Marine Regiment of the 1st Marine Division in Korea from November  1951 to March 1952, and then with the 1st Medical Battalion of the 1st  Marine Division in Korea from March to December 1952. Petty Officer  Riojas next served with Headquarters & Service Company, 3rd Marine  Battalion of the 3rd Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California, from  January to August 1953, followed by service at NAS Corpus Christi,  Texas, from August 1953 to January 1955. He attended the Navy Deep Sea  Diving School at the U.S. Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D.C., from  February to September 1955, and then served as a Medical Deep Sea Diving  Technician attached to the Submarine Escape Training Tank as an  instructor at U.S. Naval Submarine Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from  November 1955 to June 1956. His next assignment was as a Hospital  Corpsman aboard the submarine rescue ship USS Coucal (ASR-8) from June  1956 to June 1958, followed by service as a Hospital Corpsman at the  U.S. Naval Hospital at Corpus Christi from January 1958 to June 1959.  Petty Officer Riojas attended the Hospital Administration Technician C  School at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, Virginia, from June  1959 to April 1960, and then served at the U.S. Naval Weapons Plant in  Washington, D.C., from April to August 1960. He next attended Divers  Refresher training at the Deep Sea Divers School in Washington, D.C.,  from August to September 1960, followed by service aboard the submarine  rescue ship USS Skylark (ASR-20) from September to October 1960. He  served aboard the submarine tender USS Fulton (AS-11) from October 1960  to April 1961, and then aboard the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19)  from April to June 1961. Chief Petty Officer Riojas returned to the USS  Skylark from June 1961 to December 1963, and then served as an  instructor with the Submarine Escape Training Tank at the U.S. Naval  Submarine Base in New London, Connecticut, from December 1963 to July  1965. His next assignment was as an instructor aboard the submarine  tender USS Simon Lake (AS-33) from July to August 1965, followed by  service as an instructor at the U.S. Naval Underwater Swimmers School at  Key West, Florida, from September 1965 to March 1967. Chief Petty  Officer Riojas' final assignment was with SEAL Team TWO at Naval  Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia, from March 1967 until his  retirement from the Navy on November 13, 1970. During this time he  deployed to Southeast Asia with SEAL Team TWO from October 1967 to April  1968, and with Naval Special Warfare Group Vietnam from October 1969 to  October 1970. post retirement November 1970 Respiratory Technician,Norfolk Hospital,Virginia graduated El Contro College,Dallas,Texas 1972 (Associate Degree in Nursing) (Registered Nurse) Baylor Medical Center,Dallas,Texas graduated University of Texas School of Allied Health Services 1977 (BS in Physician Assistant Studies) Baylor Medical Center,Dallas,Texas emigrated to Mexico 1985 graduated Autonomous University of Tamaulipas,Tampico,Mexico retired and resided Pearland,Texas <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-riojas.33301/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33301-166b1113359d401008b33fb4a9c687ce.jpg?1591436911" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-riojas.33302/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33302-332d74ae7a99ab6ad0f159f2ebe3ef63.jpg?1591436912" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/e-riojas.33303/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33303-b8a2246d6f077fb7b0932aba8b083c6f.jpg?1591436912" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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