O/T NAVY HAMBers Time to muster!!

Brother LongT in Grumman's finest!!

 

pm'd ya. spent 3 years on the uss coral sea (cv-43) . worked the flight deck in v-1 division . good size chunk of that 3 was spent in the shipyard at portsmouth va. doing a major overhaul . i dont think i've ever been happier than the day i got out of the navy , but wouldnt trade the experience for the world.

 

Hey I worked on those E2 's VAW-122 USS Independance out of Norfolk 1973-74

 

There are submarines and there are targets!

Boot in San Diego CA 1972
Machinist Mate "A" School Great Lakes Ill. 1972
USS Wabash AOR 5 (floating gas can) - Long Beach CA
Nuke School Mare Island Vallejo CA 1973
Nuke Power Training Unit "S5G" "The ketchup bottle in the dessert", Idaho Desert, Idaho Falls Idaho 1973
SSBN 624 "Blue" Woodrow Wilson
C3 missle conversion Newport News Shipyard 1973/74
6 Patrols/3 ORSE Boards
One more surface than dive - Amen!

 

U.S.S.Saratoga CVA-60 66-68 Photographers mate

 

The HAMB is like Squid central. Glad to see so many Navy pukes here. Todd

 

submarine nr-1, uss toledo
2002-2006
groton ct
nuke mm2

 

Ok ,I'll bite.

I must be the oldest swabby on here.

62, Boot camp SanDiego
62 MMA school Great lakes
62-64 USS Wrangell AE-12 Five Med Cruises,Scotland,Ireland, Carribean
64-66 USS Alcor AK259 Scotland, Med, Carribean

Was an MM2 when i got out,Wish now i had stayed in.had plenty of money
Played cards,and ran a slush fund
bought a 63 Corvette in 65.
Had some serious fun.

Come to think of it, i can still raise hell, Just not all night..

 

Looks to be a fair number of Nuke MM's on here.
Dec 84 - Boot camp in Great Lakes (90* below)
Spring 85 - MM A school in Great Lakes
Summer 85 - Nuke School in Orlando
Spring 86 - Prototype in Ballston Spa. (Multiple Accident Research Facility)
Nov - 86 SSN 752 Precom Crew , Electric boat and Sub-base New London...All the way to change of homeport
XMAS 90 first discharge
Feb 91 - May 91 Ships Testing at Electric Boat(Civilian Contractor).
May 96 - Aug 2002 Reserve duty in Atlanta and Kings Bay.
Anyone here go to Leadership training in Charleston in August of 2001?
August 2002 - Medical Retirement

50 Ford 1963 - Looks like I just missed you in New London and Kings Bay.

 

My Dad did 22 years in EOD.

We spent many years in Va Beach/Norfolk.
A liittle time in Crane Indiana and a few years in Ridgecrest CA.

 

OK, 64-66 DD 709 Uss Hugh Purvis- DESDEVGRU2 Newport RI.
66-75 Reserves,,

 

Boot Camp San Diego
68-70 Naval Radio Station Annapolis, MD
70-72 USS Joseph Hewes DE-1078

 

Boot Camp May- Sept. '66 (had hernia while in BC and shadowed a company to finish tests).

Mayport, FL Oct. '66- Oct. '68 NS Mayport Fire Station as Crash Rescue

USS Saratoga CVA 60 Oct. '68-Feb. '70 V-1 Division Rep 8 Crash 'n' Dash, bow (Fly 3) hotsuit man on TAFF unit between bow cats. ABH-3. Made '69-'70 Med Cruise. Designed Division Cruise Patch, lettered/striped a lot of head gear of flight deck personnel.

 

USN,89-93,orlando,millington,norfolk,was v-4 dept(acft gasser) on the theodore roosevelt,struck for AD,transferred to the george washington,/vaw-121,eos on may 93,had some good times,and bad,I'm glad I did it.

 

I was in the Marines from 68-70.
The Marines are part of the Department of the Navy..

The MENS Department.


I spent so much time at Millington TN I felt like I WAS a sailor.
(F4B Phantom Avionics nd Fire control tech.)

 

I work on Hawkeyes out of Norfolk, VA.

 

1967-1971 USS Intrepid, Boilerman 2nd. The Intrepid is now a sea, air and space museum and is normal tied to a pier at New York City. Currently it is in the shipyards for repairs.


John

 

USS Engage MSO Pearl Harbor Hi. '70
Second Class Diver school San Diego, Ca. class 7105 1970
USS LaSalle LPD3 Norfolk, Va. '70
USS Affray MSO Charlston, S.C. '72

Visited Norfolk, Va Beach, this past weekend, hardly recognized it, it changed so much.

 

Boot in San Diego Nov 67 -Feb 68. Company 674
Aerographer's Mate (weather) A school in Lakehurst NJ.
One year at NWSED Willow Grove Pa.
Back to Lakehurst for ASWEPS C school.
Fleet weather central, Pearl Harbor, 2 years shore duty (whoo hoo)
Out in Auguat 1971 to go back to college.
The only time I spent on a boat was to deliver daily weather
charts to the dockside in Pearl.

 

1993-2000
Boot camp in Great Lakes, IL
HT 'A' school in Philadelphia, PA
1994-1996 SIMA Pascagoula MS
1996 HT 'C' school in Great Lakes, IL
1996-1998 USS Frank Cable (AS-40) Guam, but we spent more time in Japan than in our "home" port.
1999-2000 Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA. Was learning Korean. But the "spook" community wasn't for me, so I got out.

Unlike some on here, the saddest day of my adult life was the day I took off my uniform for the last time...

 

boot camp Orlando, August '88
Corry Station, Pensacola
USS Barbey (FF-1088) Sand Dawg
USS Comte de Grasse (DD-974) Norfolk
out in '94
good times.

 

For those of you who miss the Navy, here's a handy guide for re-living your glory days:

22 simple steps to simulate life in the Navy:

1. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a
curtain. Six hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the
curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack".

2. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub
and move the shower head down to chest level. When you take showers, make
sure you shut off the water while still soaping.

3. Every time there's a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and
rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous.

4. Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "High".

5. Don't watch TV except movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your
family vote on which movie, then show a different one.

6. (Optional for ex-engineering types) Leave lawnmower running in your
living room six hours a day for proper noise level.

7. Have the paperboy give you a haircut.

8. Once a week blow compressed air up through your chimney, making sure the
wind carries the soot across and onto your neighbor's house. Laugh at him
when he curses you.

9. Buy a trash compactor and only use it once a week. Store up garbage in
the other side of your bathtub.

10. Wake up every night at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich on stale bread, if anything. (Optional: Canned ravioli or cold
soup).

11. Make up your family menu a week ahead of time without looking in your
food cabinets or refrigerator.

12. Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When
it goes off, jump out of bed and get dressed as fast as you can, then run
out into your yard and break out the garden hose.

13. Once a month take every major appliance completely apart and then put
them back together.

14. Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5 or 6 hours
before drinking.

15. Invite at least 85 people you don't really like to come and visit for a
couple of months.

16. Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table
and lie under it to read books.

17. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills on your front and back
doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the
sill every time you pass through one of them.

18. Lockwire the lugnuts on your car.

19. When making cakes, prop up one side of the pan while it is cooking.
Then spread icing really thick on one side to level off the top.

20. Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "Man
overboard, ship recovery!", run into the kitchen and sweep all the
pots/pans/dishes off of the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife
for not having the place "stowed for sea".

21. Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go and
stand in front of your stove. Say (to nobody in particular) "Stove manned
and ready". Stand there for 3 or 4 hours. Say (once again to nobody in
particular) "Stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put them away.

My favorite additional item:

22. Wake up at 0-Dark-30, line up in the driveway in a light drizzle, and
have your mother-in-law criticize your clothes and read you the newspaper.

Have a Nice Navy Day!!

 

Last time I told a marine that he tried to brake a table over my head.

 

Great Lakes NTC 20 June 1964 to August 20 something.
NAS Boca Chica FL September 1964 to February 1965 worked the transit line.
February 1965 to June 1965 NAS Jacksonville FL Aviation Ordnanceman A school.
June 1965 to October 11 1967 NATC Patuxent River MD Service Test/All Services Eval Group servicing weapons systems on F-4's,F-8's,A-4's,A-6's,SH3's,OV-10 BIS trials,CH-53 BIS trials,and miscellaneous test projects(mostly classified) with occasional forays to other bases for TAD and most of the bars in Southern Maryland(and I have the scars to prove it).Amazing what kind of trouble a Yankee can get into when you are at,"the Gateway to the South". Wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

 

We were doing circles with the Enterprise making water as they were striping tanks. Yummy. I was the Repair Party Electrician so as everyone was evacuating a Main Space, I was running in to shut off power so they wouldn't get shocked. Never realized how dumb that was. Burnt coffee in a metal pot and cleaning SSTG's with Perc. Asbestos insulation in everything. I should be dead by now. I switched rate for the Reserves and went from EM3 to IS2. then I was discharged for loosing hearing as an Engineer. The Navy isn't known for being deep thinkers.

 

Boot Camp San Diego July 67
AMS-A school 67-68 Millington Tenn.
VAH-123 (A3D ) Whidbey Island, Washington 68-70 AMS-2
VAQ-131 (EA3B) NAS, Alameda CA. 70
VAQ-130 ( EA3B, KA3B ) NAS Alamdea, CA 71 AMS2
RNMCB-15 Denver 79-83 CM2
RNCFSU-2 Denver 83-88 CM1

NAVY=NEVER AGAIN VOLUNTER YOURSELF

OLD HEMI

 

SEABEES...CM ,MCB 58, 1966 - 1969.. Davisville, RI and VN ...

 

Tragic, you forgot one;

23. once a week start your diesel vehicle and let it idle in your garage with the door shut until your entire house fills with diesel exhaust. This will give everything you own that "just back from sea" scent.

T

 

Sept.1965 the day after the National drags, boot Camp Great Lakes Il. Nov.1966 AE"A" school JacksonvilleFl. July 1966 HT8 Pensacola Fl. Sept 1968 VP 31 North Island San Diego Ca.A lot of great times in Tiajuana! Dec.1968 Naval Station Adak Alaska. Sept. 1969 discharged. Never on a "boat" but my oldest son was in the Navy from 1991-1997 as a MM on the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Steven Austin.

 

in boot camp at sd on 12/28/64
ad j "a" school in tenn
vaw 13 nas north island
vaw 13 det. delta for 66 cruise on the connie , f/d trouble shooter, for e-2a
2 more west pac`s on the connie as adj 2 with vaw 113
active reserve at nas norfolk, and oceana nas
3 years at nas alemeda , with va- 304 and hs-85 ( a4-e scooters , a7-a`s and sh3a helo`s
bout a year at oceana with vc-12 ( ta-4f`s and a couple of f-5`s