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L. Dunigan, QMC USNR in January 1953 Hal and a fellow chum and lifeguard, Gene Poole, were serving with a local reserve unit. Together they decided to go on active duty. Hal served on the destroyer USS Lydon L. Swenson. Upon graduating from BUDs he was assigned to Class 6. With thanks to LCDR Doug Fane Hal served in UDT-1. Later he transferred to UDT-3 to return to Japan. Hal recalls walking up on the pier in Inchon Korea in the spring of ’53 hearing gunfire and counting 68 body bags. He also got to meet General Maxwell Taylor. He was released from active duty in January 1954. He became a lifeguard for Ocean Lifeguards in Los Angeles County and with further schooling got a Master's Degree. Hal served as a Jr. High School Vice Principal for 20 years. In 1979 Hal joined the UDT-119 reserved unit and was recalled in September 1959 to serve with SEAL Team One. He retired in January 2006 after 57 years. He is a widower. Address: 647 Ashland Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405, Telephone number available via email from the editor. [ top ] Edwin D. O'Toole, Petty Officer Second Class, Training Class 13 LCK 11/54 "Eddie," also nicknamed "Digger," is a very interesting man who has accomplished much. He served four years with UDT (teams 2 & 21). His swim buddy was Roy Boehm. Since leaving the Navy he has been CEO of 13 companies. He attended M.S. Hershey School (for orphans) through the 12th grade. Eddie inverted and built the first TV camera that is now used worldwide to check out sewer lines rather than using humans. [ top ]
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Among other things, he is the person who invented stints that are used to open clogged arteries in humans saving thousands of lives. His newest patent is for synergyrings. The picture below depicts our earth surrounded by interwoven tensile-loaded rings in a truncated icosahedron configuration. These 60 stations, to be positioned in space around the earth, could monitor incoming and outgoing happenings as well of the fluctuations of electromagnetic fields which it will utilize. In his hypotheses the axis of the planet could be altered if necessary to counter any major adverse situations that arise and affect million of live on the planet.
Eddie and wife Marie have been married for 50 years and have three children: Robert, Shawn, and Kelly. Home is 4019 W Park Road, Hollywood FL 33021, Telephone number available via email from the editor. Webmaster: The photos sent to Don were copies of the originals and therefore too grainy to use here. They are: 1) Eddie Vieques living on beach in Puerto Rico. 2) Swim buddy’s Eddie and Roy Boehm in dry suits. 3) All Bahamas record Blue Fin Tuna catch, my 87 seventh Blue Fin. Ed left, buddy Ron Raben right. 4) Fished with President Nixon at Cat Key. [ top ]
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