During his three years in the Navy, Roberts received several awards including the Navy Achievement Medal and letters of commendations from the commanding officer, USS Henderson and the commanders of Destroyer Squadron 19 and the United States Seventh Fleet.
Operation Flagpole (1963) – a joint United States Seventh Fleet–Republic of Korea naval exercise held in June 1963
United States | United Kingdom | Republican Party (United States) | Democratic Party (United States) | United States House of Representatives | President of the United States | United Nations | United States Senate | United States Navy | United States Army | Supreme Court of the United States | United States Air Force | Native Americans in the United States | United States Congress | Parliament of the United Kingdom | 66th United States Congress | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | 74th United States Congress | 18th United States Congress | 73rd United States Congress | 54th United States Congress | 61st United States Congress | United States Marine Corps | United States Department of Defense | 64th United States Congress | 65th United States Congress | 53rd United States Congress | 52nd United States Congress | 55th United States Congress | United States Army Corps of Engineers |
The company's chief executive, Leonard Glenn Francis, allegedly recruited two moles within the United States Seventh Fleet and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), who would alert him when naval auditors tried to investigate suspicious business transactions with Glenn Marine.
A naval task force of cruisers and destroyers from the 7th Fleet under Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid—which was Gen. Macarthur's naval command—would protect the landing forces on their movements to shore and then remain to provide gunfire as needed.
In the Surigao Strait between Leyte and Dinagat Islands on the evening of 24 October 1944, he contacted the U.S. 7th Fleet under Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf, which consisted of six battleships, eight cruisers, 29 destroyers, and 39 motor torpedo boats.
The United States Seventh Fleet commander, Vice Admiral Paul Blackburn, observed that the Vung Ro find was “proof positive.” Blackburn and General William Westmoreland called for a major U.S.-Vietnamese anti-infiltration patrol operation.