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USS Stark Casualties
| Doran Bolduc Lacy |
Washington |
| Bradley Brown Calera |
Alabama |
| Jeffrey Calkins |
Rickfield Springs, N.Y. |
| Mark M. Caouette |
Fitchburg, Mass. |
| John Ciletta * |
Brigantine, N.J. |
| Brian Clinefelter |
San Bernadino, Calif. |
| Antonio Daniels |
Greenville, S.C. |
| Christopher DeAngelis * |
Dumont, N.J. |
| James Dunlap |
Osceola Mills, Pa. |
| Steven Erwin * |
Troy, Mich. |
| Jerry Farr |
Charleston, S.C. |
| Vernon Foster |
Jacksonville, Fla. |
| Dexter Grissett |
Macon, Ga. |
| William Hansen |
Reading, Mass. |
| Daniel Homicki |
Elizabeth, N.J. |
| Kenneth Janusik |
Clearwater, Fla. |
| Steven Kendall |
Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Stephen Kiser |
Elkhart, Ind. |
| Ronnie Lockett |
Bessemer, Ala. |
| Thomas MacMullen |
Darby, Pa. |
| Charles Moller |
Columbus, Ga. |
| Jeffrey Phelps |
Locust Grove, Va. |
| Randy Pierce |
Choctaw, Okla. |
| James Plonsky |
Van Nuys, Calif. |
| Kelly Quick |
Linden, Mich. |
| Earl Ryals * |
Boca Raton, Fla. |
| Robert Shippee |
Adams Center, N.Y. |
| Jeffrey Sibley |
Metairie, La. |
| Lee Stephens |
Pemberton, Ohio |
| James Stevens |
Visalia, Calif. |
| Martin Supple |
Jacksonville, Fla. |
| Gregory Tweady |
Champaign, Ill. |
| Joseph Watson |
Ferndale, Mich. |
| Wayne Weaver |
New Bethlehem, Pa. |
| Terrance Weldon |
Coram, N.Y. |
| Lloyd Wilson |
Summerville, S.C. |
| Vincent Ulmer |
Bay Minette, Ala |
| *Buried in Arlington National Cemetery |

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| Page from the USS Coontz MEF 2-87 Cruisebook |

Text from the USS Coontz
MEF 2-87 Cruisebook:
On May 17, 1987, at approximately
9 pm, the USS Stark was attacked by an Iraqi F-1 Mirage fighter jet at an operating are known as RPS-South, just 50 miles
from the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, where the USS Coontz was moored. Little
was known about the attack at the time, only that USS Stark had suffered two missile hits on her port side. That same night, USS Conyngham and USS Waddell steamed through intense fog to aid the crew of USS Stark
in fighting the flooding and several fires which had broken out on the guided-missile frigate.
When they arrived, the fire parties from USS Conyngham and USS Waddell found melted bulkheads, warped decks and ruptured
fire mains. The Stark had a 15-degree list to port. The next morning, USS LaSalle departed from Bahrain to assist the exhausted fire
parties of Stark, Conyngham and Waddell, and to lend medical support. A 43-man
team from USS Coontz was flown to the scene on the Desert Duck helicopter. The
combined fire parties fought the fires and flooding aboard Stark for more than 18 hours.
Some of the men of USS Coontz were also tasked with removing the remains of deceased Stark crewmembers from various
berthing and work compartments. After the blaze was out, and the flooding was
contained, the USS Conyngham towed USS Stark to Bahrain
for extensive repairs. On May
20, 1987, selected crewmembers from USS Coontz conducted a memorial service for fallen crewmembers of the USS Stark
at the Bahrain International
Airport. The Coontz crewmembers
served as crowd control and honor guard, and loaded the 37 flag-draped caskets of the deceased Stark sailors onto a cargo
jet, which took the remains to West Germany
for further identification.

MEMBERS OF THE USS COONTZ FIRE PARTY
LTJG Woodson
HT3 Valdez
ENS Nash HT3
Carter
BMCS Patton
HM3 Schulze
MM1 Williams
SM3 Shavers
HT1 Squire
DS3 Snyder
NC1 Gabor
OS3 Lawrence
SM1 Clancy SK3
Arnold
MM2 Kelly
SH3 Rushing
IC2 Morgan BM3
Kolbosky
MM3 Stark
GMG3 Altese
EN3 McCullough
STG3 Splinter
BT3 Dolan GMM3
Williams
EM3 Bunk BTFN
Whitehurst
EM3 Pannicci
ICFN Kolb
EM3 Wilson HTFN
Robertson
MM3 Parker HTFN
Dettman
MM3 Bush
EWSN Jackson
EWSN Hastings
DKSN Faragher
SN Carr
SN Cash
SN Copley SN
Thicksten
SN Woodyard
MMFA Grubb
OSSA Gormley

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