US Navy Beach Jumpers Assoc.

by CRM R. Rainie, BJU-1 & 9

U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers Association (727) 4-USNBJA

Website by R-Havekost, BOD Chairman

Some Beach Jumper History

1940’s

1950’s

1960’s

1970’s

by CWO3 Curtis Clark, BJU-1

by BM3 Vince Piscitelli, BJU-2

by David Sears, WWII Magazine

by Tom Hawkins, The Blast UDT-SEAL Magazine

by ENS Jack Carlton, BJU-6

(this page is a continuous work in progress)

by SO/2c Wilmer Cochran, BJU-6

by LT Ben Hoffman, BJU-2

(this page is a continuous work in progress as pages that were corrupted on a previous website have to be reconstructed)

by JB Dwyer, noted author and Honorary Associate Member

by CWO3 Curtis Clark, BJU-1 pt.2

by webmaster, internal page

by webmaster, Hydrofoils (BJU2)

by JB Dwyer, noted author and Honorary Associate Member

‘Turbo Vestri Hostilis’

DECLASSIFIED DOCS

BJs-8Sep1943, declassified

ActionRep-8Sep1943

2000’s Once secret Beach Jumpers return to Ocracoke 2019 NPS new trail in works to Loop Shack Hill 2018 Earl O’Neal Jr. island historian, USNBJA Associate Member 1929 - 2017

DECLASSIFIED DOCS

1970’s DECLASSIFIED DOCS

1940’s

1950’s

1960’s

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by Rita Thiel, Ocracoke Observer News

Command name change designations: 1942-46: Beach Jumper Units 1 thru 11 1946-50: All units deactivated 1951-72: CNO reactivated Beach Jumper Units 1 & 2, SanDiego CA and Norfolk VA 1972: CNO redesignates units 1 &2 to Fleet Composite Operational Readiness Groups 1 & 2. (FCG1 & 2) 1986: CNO redesignates FCG to FLTDECGRUPAC & LANT.

1992-95: CNO combines the following- FDG>FTRG>CCWG into FIWC Fleet Information Warfare Command. 2005: control of FIWC was re-aligned from Commander, Naval Security Group(CNSG) to CNNWC. Following the historic disestablishment of CNSG on 30 September 2005 and its subsequent consolidation under CNNWC as the IO Directorate, FIWC merged with Naval Security Group Activity Norfolk on 4 November 2005 to establish NIOC Norfolk, thereby integrating the former NSGA cryptologic mission area with the former FIWC IO mission..

coming soon

Established 2001