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Art Van Rooy

Conversation with Art Van Rooy
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While he was in college, Art Van Rooy enlisted in the US Navy and in 1966 was sent to Vietnam as a Deck Officer for Naval Support in Saigon. Van Rooy reflects on his duty as an officer of a machine gun nest on top of a BOQ (Bachelors Officers Quarters) during the Tet Offensive, the politics of the war, and his subsequent career as a Navy Supply Corps Commander. 

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