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Article: REALISTIC LESSONS FROM A GULF VETERAN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 29, 1987
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KINGS POINT, N.Y. - Capt. Frank C. Seitz Jr. divides his time
between his recent "real world" experiences and guiding a
make-believe convoy through mined "choke point" channels and
unnerving Iranian missile challenges in the Persian Gulf.
One of the first American ship captains chosen in mid-1987
to command the reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers, Seitz smiles about
"my flash-in-the-pan notoriety." It came when he directed the
world's sixth largest crude carrier, the 401,000-ton Bridgeton,
into the path of a 1908 Russian-built mine 20 miles west of Farsi
Island.
That 250-pound charge, Seitz said, "felt like a 500-ton
sledgehammer hitting the bow . . . . It knocked me off my feet a ...