Welcome to the USS Richard E Kraus DD-849 Guestbook Forum

I would love to hear from any snipes from that era

med cruise 67 yards bost. gitmo summer 68

Years Served: n/a…I found this site while researching my cousin Richard E. Kraus. I knew they named a destroyer after him and I heard of his heroics during the war, however he died ten years before I was born. I honor and respect his memory. Proud to be Richard’s cousin, John Hesson

FTG2 Served during Vietnam tour 1972-73

Assigned to the Kraus, as a Third-Class Electronics Technician a week into Operation linebacker II, (NGFS), on the gun line. The crew were a great bunch of Sailors, still on touch w/ some today.
Lots of folks sick, from Agent Orange, due to that Da Nang port call. Diabetes-milieus, Parkinson disease, some cancers, bi-latteral neuropathy, were all waking wounded.

Then in the corner you have Chief Calhoun still cryin’. about the Lost Cause, get over it Chief that was 157 years ago. The Confederacy is as dead, as Lees Statue was melted down in Richmond VA, this year. It was beautiful to behold.
Beuy Bey you were a shitty Personal man, you fucked our my records.
I’ll be sending my lawyers expense reports, quiet so