MSG Detachment - Moscow, Soviet Union
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DETACHMENT HISTORY
SOVIET UNION DISOLVES - RUSSIAN FEDERATION BEGINS
RUSSIA / UKRAINE / LATVIA / ESTONIA / KAZAKHSTAN / KYRGYSHSTAN / TURKMENISTAN / AZERBAIJAN
1991
January: Soviet troops violently seized important buildings in cities throughout Lithuania.
19 August :(Wikipedia) Soviet coup attempt of 1991: A group of high-ranking officials calling themselves the State Emergency Committee announced that Gennady Yanayev was to replace Gorbachev as President of the Soviet Union.
20 August :(Wikipedia) the Estonian government declared its independence.
21 August : (Wikipedia)The government of Latvia declared its independence.
21 August : (Wikipedia)Soviet coup attempt of 1991: The military refused State Emergency Committee orders to take the capital. The leaders of the coup were arrested.
24 August : (Wikipedia)The Ukrainian parliament adopted the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
27 August : (Wikipedia)Moldova declared independence.
31 August : (Wikipedia)The Republic of Kyrgyzstan declared independence.
6 September : (Wikipedia)The Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states.
8 December : (Wikipedia)The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine signed the Belavezha Accords, dissolving the Soviet Union.
26 December : (Wikipedia)The Supreme Soviet confirmed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1990
DETACHMENT COMMANDER: Baughn, Clifford R. 89-90
WATCHSTANDERS:
11 March : (Wikipedia) Singing Revolution: The Lithuanian government declared its independence from the Soviet Union
1989
DETACHMENT COMMANDER: Baughn, Clifford R.
WATCHSTANDERS: Coovert, John / Elesky, Andreas
1988
DETACHMENT COMMANDER: Carlisle, Richard W.
WATCHSTANDERS: Arneson, Kurt / Arrington, Kenneth / Dill, Kevin Michael
Caruso, Frank / Caufield, Kevin / Elesky, Andreas / Coovert, John
1987
DETACHMENT COMMANDER:
WATCHSTANDERS: Arrington, Kenneth / Arneson, Kurt / Downes, Vincent (Together-We-Served)
/ Dill, Kevin Michael / Caruso, Frank J. / Caufield, Kevin / Decker, Chuck
Clayton Lonetree:
Wikimedia - Wikipedia
1986
DETACHMENT COMMANDER:
WATCHSTANDERS: Downes, Vincent
1985
DETACHMENT COMMANDER:
WATCHSTANDERS:
1983
DETACHMENT COMMANDER:
WATCHSTANDERS: Amos, Brook Desmond, Martin S.
1 September : (Wikipedia)South Korean Boeing 747 was shot down by the Soviet Air Forces
1982
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Amos, Brook / Desmond, Martin S.
1981
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Amos, Brook
1980
July 19- August 3 : (Wikipedia)1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow.
1979
24 December : (Wikipedia)Soviet–Afghan War: Fearing the collapse of the Amin regime, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan.
1978
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Cogburn, John P. 87-88
1977
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Berry, George R.
1976
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Berry, George R.
1975
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Cameron, Patrick
1974
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Durling, Walt
1973
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Dewberry, Carlton / Durling, Walt
1972
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Dewberry, Carlton / Durling, Walt
1968
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS:
Cruce, Charles Douglas (Obituary)
(Wikipedia)Prague Spring: Between 200,000 and 600,000 Warsaw Pact troops crossed the Czechoslovakian border.
Leading KSČ liberals – including Dubček – were arrested, flown to Moscow and forced to repeal the reforms of the Prague Spring. They agreed to the presence of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia.
1967
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS:
Cruce, Charles Douglas (Obituary)
1966
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Brown, Stuart Alexander / DeHarb, Darryl D.
1965
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Brown, Stuart Alexander / Cichy, Cpl. Class 6-65 / DeHarb, Darryl D. 65-66
1963:
Caires, Frank / Chapman, Doug Class 2-63
1962
Caires, Frank
October 16-28: (Wikipedia) Cuban Missile Crisis:
President Kennedy is shown aerial photos from U-2 surveillance flights showing missile bases in Cuba. The thirteen days marking the most dangerous period of the Cuban Missile Crisis begin.
Khrushchev announced that he had ordered the removal of the Soviet missiles in Cuba.
Kennedy announced that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union, and that the island would be placed under "quarantine" to prevent further weapons shipments.
1960
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Beggs, B. F. 60 (Obituary)
1958
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS:
1957
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Burke, Joseph T.
1956
NCOIC:
WATCHSTANDERS: Burke, Joseph T.
November 4 : (Wikipedia) Hungarian Revolution: A Soviet invasion, involving infantry, artillery, airstrikes, and some 6,000 tanks entered Budapest. 2,500 Hungarians were killed in the ensuing battle.
1953
March 3 : (Wikipedia)After an all-night dinner with party members Lavrenty Beria, Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev and Georgy Malenkov, Stalin suffered a paralyzing stroke.
March 5 : (Wikipedia)After an all-night dinner with party members Lavrenty Beria, Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev and Georgy Malenkov, Stalin suffered a paralyzing stroke.
17 June : (Wikipedia)Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest.
ALPHA ROSTER
Amos, Brook T. 81-83
Arneson, Kurt 87-88
Arrington, Kenneth 87-88
Baughn, Clifford R. 89-90
Bearden, H. W. Class 2-61
Beggs, B. F. 60 (Obituary)
Berry, George R. 76-77
Brown, Stuart Alexander 65-66
Burke, Joseph T. 56-57
Caires, Frank 62-63
Cameron, Patrick 75-76
Camp, Sgt. Class 1-66
Carlisle, Richard W. 88-89
Carter, William Thomas 81-82
Caruso, Frank J. 88
Caufield, Kevin 88
Cichy, Cpl. Class 6-65
Chapman, Doug Class 2-63
Childe, Kevin Lee 84-85
Cogburn, John P. 87-88
Cole, Shawn 92-93
Cole, Tom 90-91
Colston, Kerry 96-97
Coovert, John 88-89
Cruce, Charles Douglas (Doug) 67-68
(Obituary)
Decker, Chuck 87
DeHarb, Darryl D. 65-66
Desmond, Martin S. 82-83
Dewberry, Carlton E. 72-73
Dill, Kevin Michael 87-88
Downes, Vincent Oscar 85-87
Durling, Walt 72-74
Elesky, Andreas 88-89
Everett, Zane 61-63
Ezell, John R. 82-83
Falbee, Frank 64-65
Faraday, Nathan 05-06
Fenton, Dean R. 89-91
Fitzpatrick, Lawrence 51
Ford, Cpl 64-65
Frantz Jr., Eugene W. 76-77
Franz, Frank 83-84
Frederick Jr., Kenneth 55-56
Garcia, Robert T. 90-91
Geiger, Hubert Dale 88
Geisenhof, Daniel 88
Gibson, Leroy Fred
Gingery, David 76-77
Greenwood, Jim 66-68
Hall, Chris 88
Hart, John G. 83-84
Haverly, Wilbert 90-91
Healy, Allen F. 72-73
Hounsome, Roy 88
Hunt, Steven 79-80
Hyde, Russell 89
Iriondo, Phillip 89-91
Izbinski, Tom 88
Jackson, David K. 88
Johnson, Robert 66-67
Kelliher, LCpl Class 5-84
Kellogg, David R. 73
Klingenmeier, Richard 64-65
King, Ron L. 88
Knox, Dale A. 81-82
Kramp, K.E. 64-65
Lane, Kevin Christopher 85-86
Latiolais, Roland E. 60-61
Loch, L. S. 77-78
Locke, Donald C. 53-54
Lonetree, Clayton Class 5-84 (Soviet Spy)
Long, Brian 87
Lyons, Darrell 88
Maclean, Cpl Class 5-84
Maka, Cpl Class 6-65
Mammone, William L. 67
Marbury, SSgt 87-88
Martin, Patrick E. 89-90
May, Charles W. 54-55
McCloskey, Michael J., Jr. 63-64
McGinnis, Sterling 64-65
McIntyre, Ian H. 84-85
Medina, Rodney A. 87-89
Meltabarger, Tim 88
Miller, John W. 61-62
Mills, Michael D. 89-90
Moore, John Dale 87
Neubauer, Jay S. 86-87
Olsen, Sgt Class 5-84
O’Toole, Thomas F. 64-65
Pardoe, Duane E. 88
Paquette, LCpl Class 5-84
Parra, Arthur R. 97-98
Pate, Michael 63-64
Pena, James 87-88
Phelps, Demone Dirty Red 88
Polk, Cpl Class 3-66
Rainey, Robert L. 68-69
Rawlins, Jerry 88-90
Reis, Brian 88
Robbins, D.W. Class 4-69
Rowe, LCpl Class 3-66
Ruller, Gary 83-84
Reid, Rick G. 85-86
Sabatini, John 88-89
Sandoval, Everett 82-84
Sargent, Harold Taylor 64
Schings, Don 64-65
Seeker, GySgt 87-88
Seitsinger, Kyle (KIA Iraq 2004)
Shafer, Jimmy Ray 64-65
Sheehan, Richard W. 58-60
Shields, Jerry Arthur 76
Shipley, Kenneth R. 81-82
Simmons, Jennifer Marie
Sly, LCpl – Class 5-84
Stickel, Sgt Class 5-84
Stockton, Eric J. 88
Swanson, Cpl Class 5-84
Taylor, Herbert 64-65
Taylor, Timothy 87-88
Tedrow, David A. 81-82
Tehako, Todd J. 84
Ternus, Cpl. Class 5-82
Turner, Mike 89/90
Tyndall, Raeford 70-71
VanderHorst, LCpl Class 5-84
Veck, Jr., William M. 82-83
Wade, Michael A. 88-89
Ward, Richard K. 78-79
Watson, Cpl Class 1-71
Westmoreland, Bill F. 60s
White, Jon W. 81-82
Willliams, G.M Class 5-84
Wingate, Joey E. 84-86
Wheaton , Ralph L. 64-65
Williams, Jr., Eugene 81-82
Wyles, Peter 82-84
Young, Tony 84-85
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