O/T NAVY HAMBers Time to muster!!

Boot at Diego, July '65
Millington for Avionics and Fire Control A school, October '65 to October '66
Fighter Squadron 13 after that, stationed at Cecil Field, Fl, but deployed on the "Shitty Shang" most of the time, working on F-8 Crusaders, AQF-3, passed the test for E-5, but told them no way I would extend 8 months to put on the second chevron.
Got out in August '68, I was a "Kiddie Cruiser".
BTW, Wz Junk, John, I worked nights most of the time, when we were out to sea. Would have given my eye teeth for some chicken. When they ran out of food during mid-rats (which was quite often), it was always vienna sausages to fill in. I STILL can't stand those little weenies!!

 

Heavy Cruisers

USS HELENA CA 75
USS SAINT PAUL CA 73

1962-64

 

Joined in '59. Did 21 years on sewer pipes. USS Sablefish (SS303), Uss Croporal (SS346), USS Jallao (SS368), USS Croaker (AGSS246), USS Grayling (SSN646), USS Shark(SSN591). Far too many years at sea! DBF!

 

Damnfingers

glad you made it back from Nam ok.............yup, the Navarro was my home for 4 yrs,
two weeks out of high school and I thought I needed to see the world... boy,did I do that.
I got out just before the nam deal although we did have troops aboard and Landed them in BK thailand for operations in Lao es.. we were so called advisors at the time, this would have been in 62 when things heated up there..

I had a shipmate that was still aboard the Navarro in 66........his name was Ken Roberts, probably E-7 BM.................he now lives in Fl...

thanks for your response

 

NRTC San Diego July- Sept !961 Hotter than Hell! I should have joined in the winter!
AE "A" school NAS Jacksonville 1961-2
NAS Moffet Field, VR-8, 1962-3 During the Cuban missile crisis I "guarded" C-121 with a empty M1 carbine.

 

1970~1992 Navy
1970 Boot, 70~71 AE "A" school JAX, 71~72 VAL-4 Binh Thuy, 72~74 VA-65 Va Beach 2 cruises USS Indy, 74~77 AIMD Key West, 77~80 HSL-35 North Is, 80~82 VF-171 Key West
82~87 HSL WING Jax, 88~90 GITMO, 90~92 HSL-44, 92~?? Retired.

Mike

 

One more here..still in working a A/C.. out of Lemoore.

 

I wonder if we ever crossed paths. I was in Millington Avionics at the same time. Can't remember my company though. I was a Kiddie Cruiser that got out in Aug '68 also.

Bill

 

1985-2003 122FW IN Air National Guard Full time PRIME Beef/Civil Engineering Squadron, AF version of SeaBees. You know the Air Force are the ones that sends their officers out to fight

2003-2008 Fort Rucker AL Public Works, Army Civilian

FEB 2008 NAS Whiting Field FL, Navy Civilian, best kept secret in the Navy shhhhhhh, near Pensacola and Eglin AFB so visit once in a while.

The Air Force has the best procedures in my field, Navy is 2nd and the Army is about 12th.

Dry county, get to buy booze on base on Sundays

 

Unfortunately I was in the Nav Reserve; fortunately I wasn't in full-time:

• Boot camp and Airman School in San Diego, 1985
• One weekend a month:
  • Point Mugu; Plane Captain "working" on A-7's then F-18' s with Squadron VF(A)-305 for 6 years
• Two weeks a year:
  • Point Mugu
  • Lemoore firefighting school
  • USS Enterprise flight deck
  • USS I Don't Remember pots and pans scullery
    • On one or both boat rides I refused to throw trash bags into the ocean

 

MR2

USN 71-75
VietNam class of'72
USS Denver LPD9
USS Bristol County LST1198

***************************** WELCOME HOME!**************************

 

92 - San D boot
93 - AT school TN & IFF school Oceana VA
94 - Decom cruise on the Saratoga
95 - Cecil Field FL
96 - Washington cruise

I wanted to stay in, but Clinton wanted to downsize.

 

1961 joined the navy reserve, to beat the Army draft. went active in 1962 and****igned to the USS Washtenaw county LST 1166 stationed in Yokosuka Japan. [orient cruise]rep' the good ol' USA in hong kong, sasebo,yokohama, tokyo, okinawa, kaoshung, subic philipines and korea.etc.., [o' darn!] till 64, alerted for the Cuban crisis, and then Kennedy****assination. got home in 64 a week after gulf of Tonkin. was a good cruise. Hi ! to lotta old early 60,s guys, we were on some of the west pac operations [dam LST,S] .
Shipfitter/ Metalsmith 3rd ,'R' div. 39 buicks, 32 ford, 39 chevy

 

mcb 9 58-62 kodiak, midway island,and last but not least adak isl. all kinds of fun places MikeB

 

SEABEE!!!!
SW1 still active

Boot 98
SW a school
NMCB-5 99-03
Navel Construction Training Center (welding instructor and man did they help me and all the boys in the car club get some***** fabbed) 03-06
NMCB-40 Presently

Good to see so many BEES!!!

 

oct 1989 - dec 1989 Great Mistakes, Il boot camp

dec 1989 - @ feb 1990 Pensacola, Fl Naval aircrewmen candidate school

feb 1990 - @ aug 1991 Millington, Tn Avionics "A" school

aug 1991 - oct 1994 VQ-4 Reconnaissance Squadron first at Pax River, Md and then the squadron moved to Tinker AFB oklahoma city, Ok

 

USS Albany, Dec 1969/July 1973 FTM-1 Forward missle house;

 

Should have listed the complete hitch;
BC in San Diego, July '66
FT A school Mare Island Oct '66 thru Feb '68
Seal Beach NWS Feb '68 thru Dec '69
USS Albany Dec '69 thru July '73

 

Okay, let me rephrase that...Any USS Albany Submarine sailors on here?
They named the later 688's after the old cruisers.
I helped build the Albany as a civilian contractor.
I was just wondering if anyone had found the hidden treasure yet.
Same goes for the Pasadena, we hid all kinds of neat stuff throughout that boat during construction.

 

E, gawd! I feel ill with all these squids around. So you guys gonna bid for first stint in the HAMB barrel?
O yeah, forgot to ask, any of you find the golden rivet??

I kid cause I care. One of my best mates joined the Navy, he married my sister too, Ill let you guys pick which one upset the family..........

 

Damn there are alot of squids on here. Not a squid myself just a shallow water sailor. Yeah right. 18 years in Uncle Sams Cunfused Group. Out of that I have 14 on ships. Good to see all the sailors on here.

 

79-81 Pushbutton STS3
81 USS Silversides SSN-679
Busted for pot
81-84 USS Detroit, Deck Div chipping paint. Worked up to the ET Shop
84-86 USNS Mississinewa
July 86 got out as ET2

Rick

 

Never
Again
Volunteer
Your****

1972-1978 2 Westpacs Tonkin Gulf Yaht Club
Uss England DLG/CG 22 (Served under John Poindexter)
http://ussengland.org/
http://cg22.ussengland.org/Pictures/JoeCoulter_a/JoeCoulterPics1.htm

USS KittyHawk CV 63
Now the oldest ship in the NAVY

Subic Bay Naval Station, PI. (Armed Forces Police)
Bases around the country and some places better not talked about...

FTM2 when I got out.

 

Forgot to mention: While at North Island, was in the same barracks as Dennis Riklefs. I guess the same one, although he wasn't painting as far as I know back then. He had a new -for then- '69 Z28. Faster than*****, and he drove it like he stole it. It was sort of that greenish tan color.

 

1959 USS Albemerle AV5 ( Seaplane Tender)
1960 USS Indepencence CVA62 (Aircraft Carrier)\
1961 Little Creek VA (Shore Duty)

"If I only new then what I know know!"

 

Looks like a lot of Nukes and Bubbleheads, I was an A-ganger on the USS James Monroe (SSBN 622G) from 1982-1986 patrolling out of Holy Loch Scotland.

We had a bunch of hot rodders on the crew. One similarity I always drew between being a submarine mechanic and a hot rodder is that if we didn't have a part we needed we had to make it - no parts stores in the middle of the North Atlantic.

 

Navel Construction Training Center (welding instructor and man did they help me and all the boys in the car club get some***** fabbed)

Navel Construction? Building belly*****on cars I guess. Regards, Ron

 

87 to 91 BB-62 THE Battleship New Jeresey we were the last crew decomisioned it in Long Beach.Then I went to the USS Wabash for about 6 months.

 

BC Orlando 1982
SK A School Meridian Miss
Sub Tender USS Holland AS-32 "Tha Love Boat" 1982-1985
S1 and S5 divisions, Supply Dept and watchstander, fire party gas tester (take yer mask off and see if ya pass out)
TAD to US Army Infantry school Ft Benning GA for reserve force training
(learn to shoot lots of weapons and set Claymores etc)
Sub Tender USS Frank Cable AS-40 1987-1988
spent too many nights working all through the shift to keep the tended units going. left in 88; came THIS CLOSE to being recalled right after 9-11... would have gone, too, but one freaking year too old.
half of what the Govt taught me i use every day and get paid for...
if i used any of the OTHER half i'd get put in prison.
i wouldn't take back a single day of it. it was ALL good....