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	60k	Joe Calvin Paul was born in Williamsburg, Kentucky on 23 April 1946. He graduated from grammar school and attended high school for one year before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps on 26 April 1963 in Dayton OH shortly after his seventeenth birthday. In August 1963, after completing recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California, he was transferred to the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where he underwent individual combat training with the Second Infantry Training Regiment, graduating in October 1963. He then joined Company H, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 1st Marine Brigade, in Hawaii where he was promoted to private first class in December 1963 and to lance corporal in October 1964. With that unit, he sailed for the Far East, arriving in Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam on 7 May 1965 where this unit was redesignated Company H, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division. On 18 August 1965, while serving as a fire team leader with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, LCpl Paul placed himself between his wounded comrades and the enemy and delivered effective suppressive fire in order to divert the Viet Cong long enough to allow the casualties to be evacuated. He fought in this exposed position until he was mortally wounded. He succumbed to his wounds the next day, 19 August 1965. Joe C. Paul was buried in the Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio. USS Paul (DE1080) was the first ship named in his honor.		Bill Gonyo
	100k	July 1972: Paul shown entering Norfolk, Va. (Note from Joshua R. Lipman, Paul's First Lieutenant at the time - This photo was taken by a civilian photographer in an airplane and sold to the crew as we went on liberty. We had just finished our second yard period after commissioning and received the enlarged helo deck for LAMPS and the BPDMS. I still have a framed copy.)		Edwin Evans
	58k	circa 1975 - 1976: original bow and BPDMS system
	38k	circa 1975 - 1976: original bow and BPDMS system
	42k	8 April 1976: Paul at Barcelona, Spain, still with original bow.		Fabio Peņa
	68k	date / location unknown (probably from the early '80's, note original bow configuration, but CIWS has replaced BPMDS aft)		-
	81k	date / location unknown		-
	101k	date / location unknown (Photo © Ignacio F. Lopez)		Ignacio F. Lopez Spanish Navy (ret.)
	119k	26 February 1988: A port bow view of Paul underway. (U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-90-04330 by PH2 Tracy Lee Didas from the Defense Visual Information Center)		Navsource
	116k	26 February 1988: A port bow view of Paul rolling in a swell. (U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-90-04329 by PH2 Tracy Lee Didas from the DVIC)
	171k	1 March 1988: at sea - A starboard beam view of the frigates USS Vreeland (FF1068) and USS Paul (FF1080) underway. (U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-88-05374 by PH1 Bean from DefenseImagery.mil)
	171k	12 March 1988: A starboard bow view of the guided missile destroyer USS Tattnall (DDG19) underway. Also visible is Paul, the destroyer USS Stump (DD978), the frigate USS Capodanno (FF1093) and the guided missile destroyer USS Luce (DDG38). (U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-88-05448 by PH1 Bean from the DVIC)
	369k	12 March 1988: at sea - A starboard view of Paul underway. (U.S. Navy photo VIRIN #DN-SC-88-05361 by PH3 Houser from DefenseImagery.mil)
	192k	12 March 1988: at sea - A starboard view of Paul underway. (U.S. Navy photo VIRIN #DN-SC-88-05388 by PH3 Houser from DefenseImagery.mil)
	238k	12 March 1988: at sea - A starboard quarter view of Paul underway. (U.S. Navy photo VIRIN #DN-SC-88-05362 by PH3 Houser from DefenseImagery.mil)
	82k	Paul's final resting place, as a parts hulk in Greece		Edwin Evans

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