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Ron Haggard served as an ETR-SN aboard USS Calcaterra during the Deep Freeze 1965-66 deployment. Ron has lived in Colorado for the past 30 years, within a short drive of my home, and also lived in the same town as Dick Navarre when Dick was in Colorado. In fact, Ron had regular visits to a shopping area that was 5 minutes from my home in Boulder, Colorado. On April 30, 2005 I drove to Ron's new home in southern Colorado where we spent the day together.

Box of 35MM slides that Ron gave me to put on the web site. These photos were taken on the Calcaterra's last Dog Rocks picket, June, 1965. On Saturday, June 26, 1965 I reported to Calcaterra in Newport, Rhode Island. Only problem was Calcaterra unexpectedly sailed for Dog Rocks to relieve another DER that had engineering problems and could not compete the picket. I went over to the USS Yosemite for about a month while awaiting Calcaterra's return.

The above photos are of a YAGR that met Calcaterra on station at Dog Rocks, and eventually relieved Calcaterra so she could return to Newport and prepare to depart for New Zealand that summer.