SABANA SECA US NAVY Intelligence Cryptology Cyber Sec PUERTO RICO Challenge Coin

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UNITED STATES NAVY
U.S. NAVAL SECURITY
GROUP ACTIVITY
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SABANA SECA
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HOWDY!
THIS AUCTION IS FOR ONE (1) B
EAUTIFUL CHALLENGE COIN, ABOUT THE NSGA SABANA SECA NAVAL BASE, LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO, NOWADAYS WITHIN THE PERIPHERY OF METROPOLITAN SAN JUAN, BUT PURE JUNGLE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, BACK THEN WHEN IT WAS FIRST OPERATIONAL AS A NAVAL RADIO STATION, IN 1952.
ITS OBVERSE, WHICH SEEMS TO BE GOLDPLATED, FEATURES A SHARK COILED AGAINST AN OLD FASHIONED ANCHOR. BEHIND IS WHAT SEEMS TO BE A SPANISH FORTIFICATION TWO SENTRY BOX TOWERS, ONE ON EITHER SIDE OF THE ANCHOR. THESE TOWERS ARE KNONW LOCALLY AS "GARITA".  THEN IN FRONT OF THE ANCHOR AND SHARK IS A THUNDERBOLT AND AN OLD FASHIONED INK PEN. THESE TWO REPRESENT COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA GATHERING, AS NSGA SABANA SEA WAS HOME TO A MARINE CORPS CRYPTOLOGIC UNIT (INTELIGENCE GATHERING GURUS)
THE REVERSE, WHICH SEEMS CLAD IN CHROMED NICKEL WITH ENAMEL, FEATURES THE SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. THE EDGE FEATURES A SERIAL NUMBER, YEAR OF MANUFACTURE, AND MINTER'S MARK.
CONDITION OF THIS MEDAL IS
SUPERB, IN AN "AS NEW" UNCIRCULATED CONDITION, AS SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS.  IT WILL SHIP INSIDE A 2" X 2" BCW COIN FLIP INSIDE CARDBOARD OR OTHER PROTECTIVE MATERIAL TO PREVENT SCRATCHES AND NICKS WHILE BEING SHIPPED. THANKS FOR WATCHING, SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS!
BRIEF HISTORY
SOURCED FROM: NAVYCTHISTORY
In January, 1952, the U.S. Naval Radio Station, Sabana Seca was officially designated, with LCDR W. L. Thomas, as the Officer-in-Charge.
In the month, a U.S. Naval Security Group Detachment (NSG Det) was established, co-located with the Naval Radio Station (NAVRADSTA) at Sabana Seca. Later in 1952, the NAVRADSTA was recommissioned as Net Control Station (NCS) Puerto Rico, Sabana Seca, PR, and the NSG Det became the NSG Dept, NCS Puerto  Rico, Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico.
On July 1, 1971, the U.S. Naval Security Group Activity Sabana Seca Puerto Rico was commissioned, under the command of CAPT Robert G. Keller. The guest speakers at the commissioning ceremony were RADM Chester G. Phillips, COMNAVSECGRU; RADM Norvell G. Ward, Commandant, Tenth Naval District; and CAPT Griffith P. Stokes, Commanding Officer of Naval Communications Station (NAVCOMSTA) Puerto Rico. Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion, Company G and U.S. Air force 544th Intelligence Group Detachment 2 were both co-located with NSGA Sabana Seca until NSGA Sabana Seca was deactivated on January 31, 2003.  When the station closed Company G was transferred to NSGA Menwith Hill Station UK.
TERRORIST ATTACK
On December 3, 1979, at 6:40 AM, terrorists attacked unarmed sailors en route to a day watch at NSGA Sabana Seca. Volunteered to drive the Navy bus was CTO1 John Ball, the Communications Supervisor; seated directly behind him was RM3 Emil White.  As the yellow bus rolled out of the U.S. Navy compound in Toa Baja, a San Juan suburb, the passengers – 13 men and five women – dozed or talked quietly as they traveled the familiar route from the Sabana Seca Communications Station to a radio transmitter site four miles away.  Nobody paid any attention to a green pickup truck that was following close behind. About a mile from Sabana Seca, the truck suddenly accelerated. It passed the bus, slowed, and forced the bigger vehicle to a halt beside a trash dump.
Simultaneously, a white van that had been parked down the road came roaring toward the scene and the blast of automatic weapons fire shattered the dawn silence. The attack from the white van lasted for 30 seconds “a lifetime,” said one survivor. Of the 17 sailors on the bus, CTO1 John R. Ball, 29, of Madison, WI and RM3 Emil E. White, 20, of Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands were both killed by the gunfire. When it was over two U.S. sailors lay dead and ten other sailors, including all of the women were injured. Credit for the savage attack, the worst outbreak of political violence in Puerto Rico in two decades, was claimed by three terrorist groups that favor Puerto Rico’s independence from the U.S.: the Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution, the Boricua Popular Army, and the Armed Forces of Popular Resistance.
HURRICANE DAMAGE
The U.S. Naval Security Group Activity Sabana Seca maintained and operated a high frequency direction finding (HFDF) facility and provided communication support to Navy and other Department of Defense elements. The communications facility located on the island included an operations building located in the center of an AN/FRD-10A Circularly Disposed Antenna Array (CDAA), also known as a Wullenweber antenna array. The AN FRD-10A CDAA was heavily damaged by Hurricane Georges in 1999.
NSGA Sabana Seca ceased HFDF operations and the Wullenweber was dismantled and removed in 1999. The CDAA property was sold and is now being developed by a commercial enterprise
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Items are put inside plastic wrap, coin flip or capsule, foam insert, card protector, bank note jacket, FDC jacket, or similar protective method, then shipped padded within card board or bubble wrap inside an envelope or box. We’ll do everything we can to help you and get your 5 stars. Some medals or coins may be shipped inside plastic capsules as a courtesy of ours. Because you paid for a medal or coin, and not for an acrylic capsule, we are not to be held responsible over capsules received cracked or broken. Medals received from the factory will feature minor scratches or nicks over which we shouldn't be held responsible. Likewise, vintage items we sell may feature imperfections due to age, tear, and wear, which may not reflect on the photos. Due to this, we will only replace or provide refund on items received greatly damaged. Clients maliciously seeking to take advantage of the system by placing bogus or exaggerated claims will be blocked from making future business with us.
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