Stephen Horne, Class of 1965, served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War as a Machinist Mate aboard the USS Long Beach, blowing quarter-million-dollar holes in the sky above the Tonkin Gulf.
His last four months in the Navy were spent aboard the USS South Carolina in North Africa, Italy, and Spain. Stephen left the service in 1978 to work at a nuclear energy company based in Danbury that transferred him to South Carolina, where he resides today with his family.
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