O/T NAVY HAMBers Time to muster!!

10.a- cold jellified canned boned chicken

 

defrosting freezers for extended yard period, had lobster for every meal, I don't eat lobster anymore. also, SPAM (SPit it out, it is Asshole Meat).

 

got off the bus about 1830 hours on 7 nov 1964, and into great lakes ntc, should have stayed in and become a lifer.

great uncle was a cpo on the maine transfered off 4 days before it sailed from key west to havana harbor and blown up. later was lead palbarer for president McKinnley;s service

 

Crossed the equator first time on the Midway in'81. Became a "Golden Shellback" in '84. While I was being initiated the first time, I was pretty angry at the "shellbacks", when it was over I was proud to be a "shellback" and couldn't wait until it was my turn!

 

I'm just down the road in Clinton ("Clinen" <grin>)

 

'65 Boot camp San Diego
Class 65-3 NucPwrSchool, Bainbridge, MD
'66 NPTU Balston Spa, NY
'66 SubSchool, New London
'66-'71 USS Francis Scott Key, SSBN 657 (gold), MM1(SS), LELT, EWS, nine SUBLANT deterrent patrols

 

You have 2 ears, 2 eyes and one mouth, if you use them in just proportion you will do just fine.
DSC(SW) Ret.

 

I was known to "console" "cruise widows" <grin>, targeted zero's wifes.....never heard term "Jody" The "O" clubs were full the days the ships sailed or squadrons departed, just walked in like I owned the place.

 

01-05 VAW-123, Norfolk VA
05-09 AIMD Oceana, Va. beach
Currently med retired

 

Joined the reserves in 62, basic in GL in 63, Dec, back to GL in Mar for A school FTG, Got to see both the cold and hot part of the GL's sent to DD950, the RS Edwards in Subic, got aboard the night of the big shooting in the gulf. Spent 2 tours in the gulf and then got out in Dec of 66. Spent a few years in the reserves in LA. Lots of good memories but too old to want to back

 

1997 -2001
uss bataan.. norfolk ,VA

another dirty rotten snipe.. MM

 

hs-4 . 93-97 two westpac's one on kittyhawk and one on Carl Vinson.
honable shellback. possible phamtom shitter.

 

1977-1980 Oklahoma City CG-5 7th fleet FTG 3 Luis Ramos reporting for duty sir!

 

1960-1963---3rd class corpsman. San Diego, USNH 13 Great Lakes, Glenview NAS.

 

hear you on the cold part of glntc. got there 7 nov 64 ,snowed 3 feet 9 nov. a few days later it was minus 12,

 

Oct. 67 bootcamp Great Lakes
TAD USS Conway DDE D&S Piers Norfolk Va.
'68 Nuc school Bainbridge Md
'69 NPTU Windsor Locks Conn.
'71 Submarine Training School New London Conn
Jan. 72-Feb'74 USS John Adams, SSBN 620 (Blue), MM1(SS),LELT,ERS, 4 SUBPAC patrols
Feb '74-Oct '74 USS Haddock SSN Pearl Harbor Hi, LELT

Hello, brother!

 

I get laid off from my job on Tuesday. Going to MEPS that afternoon... hope to ship out ASAP

 

Muster time !

 

Still Active Duty, and still having a good time doing it!

1997 - Great Lakes, Boot Camp, ENGINEMAN A School
1998-2001 - USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49)
2001-2003 - SIMA San Diego Diesel Shop (31E)
2003-2006 - USS Rushmore (LSD-47)
2006-2008 - Assault Craft Unit One (ACU-1) Surfriders!
2009 - Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center Det. Bahrain
2010-Present -South West Regional Maintenance Center - Fleet Diesel Inspector (DEI)

Here's something I haven't seen posted yet either:

SNIPE'S LAMENT

Now each of us from time to time has gazed upon the sea
and watched the mighty warships pulling out to keep this country free.
And most of us have read a book or heard a lusty tale,
about these men who sail these ships through lightning, wind and hail.
But there's a place within each ship that legend's fail to teach.
It's down below the water-line and it takes a living toll
- - a hot metal living hell, that sailors call the "Hole."
It houses engines run with steam that makes the shafts go round.
A place of fire, noise, and heat that beats your spirits down.
Where boilers like a hellish heart, with blood of angry steam,
are molded gods without remorse, are nightmares in a dream.

Whose threat from the fires roar, is like a living doubt,
that at any moment with such scorn, might escape and crush you out.
Where turbines scream like tortured souls, alone and lost in Hell,
are ordered from above somewhere, they answer every bell.
The men who keep the fires lit and make the engines run,
are strangers to the light and rarely see the sun.
They have no time for man or God, no tolerance for fear,
their aspect pays no living thing a tribute of a tear.
For there's not much that men can do that these men haven't done,
beneath the decks, deep in the hole, to make the engines run.
And every hour of every day they keep the watch in Hell,
for if the fires ever fail their ship's a useless shell.

When ships converge to have a war upon an angry sea,
the men below just grimly smile at what their fate will be.
They're locked below like men fore-doomed, who hear no battle cry,
it's well assumed that if they're hit men below will die.
For every day's a war down there when gauges all read red,
twelve-hundred pounds of heated steam can kill you mighty dead.

So if you ever write their songs or try to tell their tale,
the very words would make you hear a fired furnace's wail.
And people as a general rule don't hear of these men of steel,
so little heard about this place that sailors call the "Hole."
But I can sing about this place and try to make you see,
the hardened life of the men down there, 'cause one of them is me.
I've seen these sweat-soaked heroes fight in superheated air,
to keep their ship alive and right, though no one knows they're there.

And thus they'll fight for ages on till warships sail no more,
amid the boiler's mighty heat and the turbine's hellish roar.
So when you see a ship pull out to meet a war-like foe,
remember faintly if you can, "The Men Who Sail Below."

-Anonymous

 

Boot Camp. San Diego, Ca. 1983
Aircrew Training. Pensacola, Florida. 1983
A School. Millington, Tennessee. 1984
SERE school. Warner Springs, CA. 1984
Aircraft Platform Training. Moffett Field, CA. 1984
Stationed at Barbers Point, HI. 1984-1987
Places visited. Guam, Thailand, Phillippinnes, Japan, Sri Lanka, Diego Garcia, and Hong Kong.
Rate. AW2
Car in Hawaii. 1971 Plymouth "Twister".
Shipped it to California.
Sold it to go to art school.
Now I have a 1931 Model A Coupe.

 

Phantom shitter!

 

Joined 4 April 1969
Great Lake Co. 224 April to June '69
NATTC Memphis, Tenn June to Nov. '69
VA-174 NAS Cecil Field, Fla. Nov. '69 to Dec.'71
VA-86 NAS Cecil Field Dec.'71 to June '72 and Westpac to Gulf of Tonkin aboard the USS America June '72 to Feb.'73 When the shipped me home for an early out. Was an AQAN in VA-86 working on aircraft weapons systems.
Dave

 

I miss the fun, but not the bullshit.

 

IPO boot camp at Gulf Port Miss. April 1968, MCB-3 Port Hueneme Calif, TDY Okinawa, rejoined MCB-3 at the University of South Viet Nam, Danang campus. Great memories and probably one of the best things to ever happen to me. I had the easiest military service of anyone from that era. Only fired my weapon at the range. Only 5 mos. in country. Thank you Mr. Nixon for your 1 year early out. Timing is everything! I really benefited from my short term in the military. I wouldn't change a thing.

 

USS Talladega APA208 Assualt Boat Coxswain 62-64..........hello Navarro!

 

1962 to 1964, USS Plymouth Rock LSD Little Creek Va. Shipfitter 3RD class.

There is nothing that a shipfitter can't fix, weld, bend or repair except a cannon ball that has been destoryed by a deck ape (seaman) with his bare hands!

 

MEDIC!?!?!?
You sound like some kind of Doggie Soldier. We're Corpsmen or, even, pecker checkers, but never medics.
HM2 1st Battalion 1st Marines Delta Co. RVN 6-67 to 6-68

 

19 July 1993 Boot Camp great mistakes
Sept 1993 - May 1994 AT "A" school Millington TN
June 1994 - Aug 1994 TARPS "C" school Miramar CA
Sept 1994 - Oct 2007 NAS Oceana AIMD
1996 USS Washinton Med cruise
1997 USS Constellation West Pac Golden Shellback
2001 USS Enterprise Med/War cruise
2003/04 USS Enterprise Med/War cruise
Feb 2008 - Feb 2011 VAW-124 2008/09 USS Roosevelt Med cruise
July 2011 - July 2013 USS Wasp
year and a half and I can pull chocks and live life on my own terms.
Looking to move to East Tennessee, Georgia or Florida when I'm done.

 

AVAST ME HARTIES......................

i got my draft notice in june of 1970, took it after i picked myself off the floor and went to the navy recruiters office and got signed up.

6-29-70 left for NTC GREATLAKES and assigned to Co.-240.
graduated late Sept. '70, was assigned to U.S.S. HECTOR AR-7.
caught the ship in SASEBO, JAPAN after they got back from VIET-NAM.
assiged to engineering dept. in "M" DIV. assigned to the EVAP GANG.
late 72ish made MM3. got early out because of home port change. i saw my home leave the breakwater out of LONG BEACH NAVAL STATION. i got in my car and drove over to the reserve center and signed up and turned in my green id card with the end cut off for a pink id card and from there left the main gate and went to the other end of the facility and got hired into the ship yard under a veterans program. as time went by did the paper work and got into the apprenticeship program for welding. awsome training and still felt at home. graduated and went to work at SEAL BEACH NAVAL WEAPONS STATION. still in the reserves and got into a unit that became the greatest unit the reserver ever put together.

this unit was (are you ready for this one) NRNAS CUBI POINT, PI.

every year for twelve years packed my bags along with the rest of the group and went to the PI.

there is a phrase that is used by rookies; PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR. let me tell you rock stars can't hold a candle to a unit of civilian sailors with civilian paychecks and credit cards and show up early get everything done that is set out for us to do four plus days early and then told well that is all we have for you.

what happens then?

WELL IT IS PARTY TIME................

rock stars join the navy and be allowed to run loose in OLONGOPO CITY, and have all the ameties infront of you that the area has to offer.

TO FINISH;
1970 NTC GREAT LAKES
1970-1974 USS HECTOR AR-7, 3 west pac cruises VIET-NAM 1972
1974-1991 NAVAL RESERVES, LONG BEACH NAVAL STATION, NAS LOS ALAMITOS, NAS POINT MUGU, recalled for OPERATION DESERT STORM/SHIELD, assigned to USS NIMITZ CV(N) 68. discharged medically due to pre-existing medical problems.

in all i would never trade the lifestyle, experience, friends, or anything else associated with that part of life.
remember what goes on in the PI stays in the PI. hello to all the LBFMS'.

TO SAILORS/SHIPMATES;
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS, BROVO ZULU.

REMEMBER,
there is a difference between a sea story and a fairy tale.

a fairy tale starts off with ONCE UPON A TIME...........
a sea story starts off with THIS IS NO SHIT..................

 

june '68 to april '72
ADR - A school, Memphis - then to VT-5 NAS Saufley Field, Pensacola, Fla. - 'hook squadron
TAD on Independence and Saratoga - Hurricane Camille in '69..