GC's Stark sailors memorialized

Twenty-nine years ago on May 17, a U.S. Navy frigate, USS Stark, was struck by two Iraqi-jet fired Exocet missiles off the Saudi Arabian coast in the Persian Gulf. Thirty-seven Americans were killed – including two Gulf Coast sailors. Twenty-one others were wounded. Some surviving members returned to the ship’s homeport at Mayport, Fla., Naval Station to remember lost shipmates in an hour-long memorial Tuesday. Gulf Coast sailors remembered include: SMSA Jeffrey C. Sibley of Metairie, La.; and SN Vincent L. Ulmer of Bay Minette, Ala. (Source: Florida Times Union 05/17/16) Gulf Coast Maritime Note: Senior regional naval officer, Vice Adm. Ron Thunman, chief of naval education and training aboard NAS Pensacola, Fla., presented the American flag to Ulmer’s family at the 1987 Bay Minette funeral.