Military: Edmond J. Coutee Wins Medal, Natchitoches Parish Louisiana
Source The Natchitoches Times January 7, 1965
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Deep South Genealogy
Natchitoches Louisiana
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WINS MEDAL

Damage Controlman Third Class Edmond J. Coutee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmond
Coutee of Route 1, Cloutierville, has been awarded the Navy Unit Commendation
Ribbon and Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal while serving aboard the attack
aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga, a unit of the Seventh Fleet in the Far East.

The awards were presented to the crewmembers for outstanding performance of
duty during the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August of 1964.

Air squadrons from the Ticonderoga participated int eh successful air strike
counter attack operations against the torpedo boats after they had attacked
American destroyers on patrol.