Today we remember a great friend to The National Navy UDT SEAL Museum, QMCS James PATCHES Watson. Chief James Patches Watson was the Curator Emeritus of the Museum. Chief was also very instrumental in the journey towards making the Museum what it is today! “I was proud to call ‘Chief’ my friend,” said Rick Kaiser, Executive Director of the Museum. “From Day One when I came to the Museum as executive director, he had my back [...] Chief Watson is an original plank owner of SEAL Team Two and, as one of the original “men with green faces,” served five tours in Vietnam. For his valor there, he earned sixteen combat decorations, four of which are Bronze Stars, all with Combat “V”. His twenty year Navy career included twenty-five training schools, eleven years on the SEAL teams, including serving as a CIA-sponsored advisor to the Provincial Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) Program in South Vietnam. These units investigated and attacked covert communist operations in South Vietnam. He also served with the Vietnamese LDNN (Lien Doc Nguoi Nhai, Vietnamese SEAL counterparts trained by the U.S. in eleven missions into Cambodia.) Chief Watson wrote Point Man and Walking Point, published by William Morrow and Company, and co-produced a video of SEAL tactics used in Vietnam Ambush! He earned his nickname “Patches” when Dick Marcinko modeled the pointman in the Rouge Warrior series on him. Visit Patches website: realseal.org
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:30:01 +0000
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