Alerts near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Interviewer: And you had indicated that you were in a realization that it was a land war, more so than the naval, yet did you have a sense of fear or was there tension in the air, like a fear of an unknown, was there that type of feeling?

There was a bit. Where we were assigned to be with those mine sweepers was right near the DMZ on the west coast and so occasionally we would get an alert, go to action stations, because the North Koreans may have violated air space with their fighter planes. And so we would be alerted that they’re there and a threat. And so we would go to action stations but it wouldn’t amount to anything, we weren’t, nothing developed like we were not attacked or anything but we were close to the DMZ line.