OPERATION NIMBLE ARCHER

1987 - HOEL participated in Operation Nimble Archer in the Persian Gulf, which utilized four destroyers to exact retribution for Iran's previous attack on a reflagged Kuwaiti supertanker that was under US protection.  Gunfire from USS HOEL (DDG-13), USS LEFTWICH (DD-984), USS KIDD (DDG-933) and USS JOHN YOUNG (DD-973) set fires on the Iranian command and control platforms in the Arabian Gulf on 19 OCT.  

~ Thanks to STG1 (SW) James Krentz (1987-1988) for providing these Operation Nimble Archer newspaper (unknown) clippings saved by his father in 1987 ~