O/T NAVY HAMBers Time to muster!!

1965-1969
Great Lakes
Monterey
Oak Knoll
San Angelo
Okinawa
Oak Knoll
Fort Mead
with several stops at Treasure Island
made it to CT2

 

I just want to let you Navy types that I respect you a whole bunch. I was in Air Force at Andersen AFB Guam, off and on from '65 through Linebacker II.

Those of you that are familiar with the setting then, when I wanted to get a really good steak and beer I would go down the road to the FIDDLER'S GREEN, a CPO club set up in an old WWII quonset hut in Tamuning, close to Andersen. A great bunch of guys there. At that time, the Chiefs rotated the duty, had no overhead, no officers allowed, when it came for last call a Chief would come around and pick somebody, sometimes me, to sweep out.

They ran the place non-profit, so a beer was usually a dime, sometimes free. Bar stock was four bottles, Old Grandad, White Horse, and Beefeaters. A quarter a shot, mixed was thirty cents. Shrimp and Shore was Ten dollars until the kitty got big enough, then free, no notice, just when they got too much cash on hand and needed to burn it.

Also went to the beach at NAS Guam (middle of the island) a lot for a change of scene and a beer.

Only got down to the CPO club at Big Navy base on the other end of the island from Andersen once, when we went down to try to steal the bell back, that Navy guys had pilfered from the Andersen Top-3-Club Stag Bar. We didn't get that bell back.

Go Navy

 

Usn 69-73
faireconron two

 

Hey guys, shout out to those still in and over in the Gulf as we speak. Check out these threads and see if you can come up with a fellow Sailors name and address to give us.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310355

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310388

(Fmr.)SSgt. Kevin Tully
U.S.A.F. Special Operations

 

CDR (USN) retired

1976-1980 NROTC Ohio State University
1980-1984 USS Callaghan (DDG-994)
1984-1986 Naval Postgraduate School
1986-1989 US Naval Research Lab
1989-1991 FT Meade
1991-1994 Misawa, Japan
1994-1996 COMCRUDESGRU Three (Carl Vinson battlegroup staff)
1996-1999 Chief of Naval Operations staff (N6)
1999-2000 Navy Information Warfare Activity

 

COOL! I was on the Franny May for 8 weeks in the summer of 1977 as a Midshipman. By then she was LPA-249 and it was basically her last cruise. Went to England, Germany, and Holland. Fun times.

 

Enlisted to be a Submarine Nuke in 1996, now almost 13 years later I've gotten my commission through the Seaman-to-Admiral program and I'm a LTJG flying MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopters.

Enlisted - Feb 1996
Nuke School - Apr 1996 to Jan 1998 - Orlando, FL and Charleston, SC
USS Greeneville (SSN 772) - Feb 1998 to Apr 2003 - Pearl Harbor, HI
New York Maritime College - Aug 2003 to Jun 2006 - Bronx, NY
Flight School - Jul 2006 to Mar 2008 - Pensacola and Milton, FL
MH-53E Fleet Replacement Squadron - Apr 2008 to Dec 2008 - Norfolk, VA

 

Are they still having to inspect the tail rotor shaft on those things after every flight?

 

heres mine:
drafted 6/1970 signed up with navy delay enlistment. boot camp great lakes oct 1970
memphis - aviation electronics school feb 1971
naval air station brunswick georgia 71-74

was happy to get out but had good freinds and good times, never have regretted it.

 

We check em on every preflight and maintenance does it on the daily. Haven't had any tail rotor problems in a while (knock on wood). They're getting old, but I wouldn't trade them for any other helicopter in the military.

 

68- Boot San Diego
68-69 AE "A" School Jacksonville Fla
69-71 NAS Jax AIMD
71-75 VP-16 Homeport NAS Jax
75 AE "C7" NATTC MIllington, Tn
75-78 Instructor Duty AE "A" School NATTC MIllington
78- discharge
79-90 Contract Instructor, NATTC Millington, AE"A", BE&E, AFTA. Was known as Capt. Q by the students

Join the Navy to get away from home (St. Augustine) and spent 7 of my 10 in Jax only 35 miles from home.

 

Feb 78 - Mar 08 all helos.

Hey Slim, I was on Belleau Wood from 86-90 also. I was an aircrewman on Devil Dog 000. Where did you work?

ski

 

I have pix of BB62 in Korea 1953, I'll put them on this thread---Somewhere!--------Don

 

Guess the oldtimers are back here!!----USN 1951---Coronado 1952--USS LOGAN APA 196--Korea--until discharge March 1955.--------------Don

 

Boot camp : Orlando 1984
FT A school great lakes 1984-1985
FT C school Mare Island 1985-1986
USS IWO JIMA LPH2 1986-1989
USNR Toledo Ohio 1999- present (amphibious construction battalion)
5 years to go til retirement
Just returned from a real nice all expense paid trip to a nice sandy tropical paradise filled with absolutely stunning vistas of burning oil fields

 

CVA-41 Westpac '71, '72

"Sweepers, sweepers man your brooms, give the ship a clean sweep down fore and aft." and then breakfast . . . .

 

God Bless all the Sailors.

 

harpboys4 ... looks like we were shipmates ... well kinda ... as I did a two-week "ship ride" on THE Battleship New Jersey in February of 1988:


... and no, I wasn't part of the dog & pony show they put on for the media ... I was actually working on the installation of computer systems in CIC (sorry ... no pics ).

 

I laughed so hard I cried. My daughter thought I was having a seizure.

All I can remember is "Never Again Volunteer Yourself". Well, that and cockroaches the size of small cats at Snipes Castle G-dunk...

 

Ntc, san diego 1989
uss canopus 1989-1993, kingsbay ga.

Turn-two bitches

 

USS Horne CG-30 stationed out of San Diego
1981-85
EM3 when I got out

Spent 122 days straight out to sea floating around in the indian Ocean, Gulf of Oman and Persian gulf. Good times? Good memories? Would I do it again? Maybe! Would I trade the experience for anything? NO!

Would have been retired by now if I just stayed in, but I probably would have been on wife number three by now also?

 

USS Asheville, SSN-758
TM2(SS)

Shellback, Order of the Ditch, Plankowner

1989-1993, Reserve time 1993 - 1997

 

Im Jealous. Congrats. I signed up for the Boost program and was probably shot down because I was a weapon'eer and not an engineer (Nuke). To be a Navy Officer was the greatest dream of mine, I was pretty dissapointed when my whole process/application seem to have disappeared.

 

Hell I just made CM3 acouple months back! Now im Petty Officer Somebody!

 

I was sent to Midway Island as my first duty station after boot camp in San Diego in 1981. Took me 6 days to get there from Hawaii since the winds were too strong to land. When we finally did land after flying out and back 5 days they asked me what I was doing there? My orders had been changed the day after I recieved them and they never contacted me, never canceled my travel plans while I took two weeks leave that I did not have on the books before going to an Isolated duty station.

I spent 56 hours on the Island and walked around it 3 times before ending up back in SoCal in Long beach ship yards. Needless to say there are very few people that have been to Midway and I wonder what it would have been like there if I had stayed?

Here are some pictures to bring back some memories!

Shellback? Yeah I are one!

If you have been to subic bay this should bring back memories?

Lots of MISC pictures in this folder if anybody wants to look
http://www.uteusa.com/Horne

 

I went to the fleet as an undesignated striker and ended up in the Electric shop because I had some experience and went back to BEE and EM A school in Chicago after being in the fleet a while. I was beating everyone in the class including the NUKE guys because I had some fleet and electrical experience. They offered me the Nuke program but I would have had to extend another 2 years so I turned it down! 18 years old so two years seemed like forever back then!

 

SSBN-628
SSBN-641
SUBGRU6
COMINEWARCOM
HOME
BRIG HERE AND THERE
and alot of other places inbetween.

 

served on:
midway cv41 76-78
kittyhawk cv63 78-79
resevese dallas tx 79-81
worked cats and aresting gear on midway
pri fly, lso platform on kitty {short timer}
still in dallas.

 

Just returned from MCB58 ,Seabee reunion, in Gulfport Ms 40 years after leaving Battalion in 1968

 

COMIDEASTFOR, USS La Salle (AGF3) Bahrain 1985-87
USS Carl Vinson (CVN70) 1989-92, WESTPAC '90 Shellback

Navy Reserve 1993 to date:
COMTHIRDFLT USS Coronado (AGF11) Oct 2001-June 2002 ESWS

Navy Customs Battalion Sierra, Ali Al-salem, Kuwait Feb-Nov 2008




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