O/T NAVY HAMBers Time to muster!!

...We were young, and a helluva long way from home. We were pulling
down crappy wages for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a-week
availability and loving the life we lived. We didn't know it at the time, but
our association with the men we served with forged us into the men we
became. And a lot of that association took place in bars where we shared
the stories accumulated in our, up to then, short lives.

While many of our classmates were attending college, we were getting an
education slicing through the blue rolling seas of WestPac,
experiencing the heart pounding drama of the return to the ship with the
gut wrenching arrestment to a pitching deck. The hours of tedium,
boring holes in the sea late at night, experiencing the periodic
discomfort of turbulence, marveling at the creation of St. Elmo's Fire,
and sometimes having our reverie interrupted with stark terror.

But when we came ashore on liberty, we could rub shoulders with some of
the finest men we would ever know, in bars our mothers would never have
approved of, in saloons and cabarets that would live in our memories
forever.

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'95 Boot Camp
'96 USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70)
'00 Joint Intelligence Center Pacific (JICPAC)
'03 USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72)
'06 Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC)
'08 Dirt Sailor in Kabul, Afghanistan (home in three months)

GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!

 

Navy jan 1961 to July 1968 discharge RM2
Boot San Diego,Ca
USS John R Craig DD885 (west pack)
Fleet Weather Central Port Lyote Morocco (best duty in the Navy)
Fleet Weather Central Rota, Spain
USS Tutuila ARG4
Pentagon

 

USS Mississinewa Attack Oiler 144
1968 - 1970
Home Ports: Newport, RI and Naples, Italy

I see FISH3495 was also on the Missy after she lost her Attack Oiler status.

Lee


Haze Gray and Underway!!

Looks like she's running low on fuel in this picture





Tried to post a picture of the Missy at Brownsville, TX scrap yard in 2007 but it wouldn't copy. For the better I guess.

 

Boot camp SD 1959 apa....USS BEXAR........USS MONTROSE.....around the world .........How many fellow shellbacks out there. Geedunk, Hate and discontent, and the last thing you don't want to hear.....REUP ?.......I don't think so !

 

I was a bubble-head / submariner on the USS Henry L. Stimson, SSBN 655 Gold Crew, 1976 - '80. Groton Conn and Charleston, S.C. There was no ongoing war at the time, basically we cleaned and polished. Now I'm permanently claustrophobic.

 

1975 to 1979 USS Morton DD948.
1979 to 1981 Instructor steam training plant at Great Lakes.

 

USN 1951 Amphibious Base Coronado,Ca.
1953 USS Logan APA 196
Discharged 1955

 

Do you think we could have walked faster backwards then our tubes could go ? I served aboard the APA BEXAR and MONTROSE. Imprisoned from 59/63 But were those the days........SEA YA !

 

Hey Dude, was on the USS Talladega APA-208 '62 to '64, friend named Bruce Gambell was on the Navarro. Phibron 7 is the best, Talladega leads the rest!

Lot of Gator Navy dudes on here.........Assualt Boat Coxswain, USS Talladega APA-208, Boat Group Commanders LCPL, Westpac and all. Loved it.

 

remember those ships well, as mentioned previous served aboard the Navarro (apa 215) from 59-63... hard to believe it has been almost 50 yrs , but I am still having fun.........

nice to hear from some of the old gators...... guess the Navarro might be in your pix also. I was in Hawaii in early 63........like the Autumn Leaf deal......big story on cbs about chemical warfare stuff..

 

boot camp SD,sept to nov 60,keyport naval torpedo sta,60-jan 62,special boat ops white beach okinawa,jan 62-oct 63,uss salisbury sound av-13 oct 63 to jan 64 treasure is,jan 64 discharged,became a shellback going to singapore on the sally i remember sitting up on the boat deck drinking my coffee watching the waves pass us,seemed like a long trip from okinawa to singapore EN-3 a-div

 

sea bees cm3
1968-71 mcb 74
gulfport ms
quang tri danang freedom hill

 

USS BARB SSN 596 1986 - 1989 Also part of decomissioning crew
USS DIXON AS-38

 

Bootcamp 1973 17 years old,company 389, ADJ-A school Millington 1974 , HSL-34 plankowner 9/74, Norfolk Va. ,AIMD 1975 nas norfolk, Had a lot of fun ,street racing in Virginia Beach, with an old 67 cuda, and a 69 pontiac that couldn't lose. it was all fun until the trouble started, got robbed by two men in the barracks for 5.00 dollars,and got 9 stitchs in my hard head for my trouble. the guy drove a 73/74 firebird with plate number ETC-871 still remember his face , car ,plate number, and his cheap ass gun in my face. AHH the memories!!!

 

USN ,May 1967-June 1971

Boot camp and Engineman A school Great Lakes
Survival Training at Coronado CA
Small Craft Repair Facility, Naval Support Activity DaNang
MSO 470 Charleston, SC
Inshore Undersea Warfare Group, mobile unit 23, Little Creek VA

p.s. To all you vets, Have a Great Memorial Day

 

I was on this one USS Enterprise- CVAN 65 now CVN 65, from 1967 to 1970. My prayers go out to the families of the 24 that died and the 85 that were wounded on January 14th 1969. I am just greatful to be above ground and sucking air.

As a civilian I have served at
NAS Point Point Mugu- with Grumman flight test on F14's 1974-1980
NAS Miramar- Grumman Top Gun Support 1978
Currently (L3) supporting C-9 Maintenance, Prime contract.
Various Navy Trainers for F18, E6, F14's 1980 to present

 

Happy Memorial Day you salty bastards. God Bless all those who are not here today.

 

RTC Orlando 1988
Signalman (Skivvy Waver) SM3

USS McKee AS-41 Sub tender 1988 - 91, San Diego
USS Roarke FF-1053 Fast Frigate 92 - 94, Treasure Island

Clinton closed 3 of the 4 bases I served at.

There is no other way to experience the things you see and do.

God Bless my fellow vets!

 

My Dad was an diesel repair Engineman on the USS Walke from 1958 - 1962.
Cuban Missile Crisis participant.

 

MT2(SS)-April 1st 1998 to Sep. 15 2006
USS Pennsylvania SSBN 735(B)
SWFPAC Bangor WA (EHW)

 

USNR in lieu of draft 1964 millington AMS school Honor man
P2V Squadron NAS Alameda out in 69 AMS2

 

Never knew the Navy had "medics"

I was a corpsman ... Boot in Great Lakes 1982
HM A school Great Lakes
FMSS Camp Johnson
NRMC Great Lakes
3rd Medical BN Okinawa Japan
NRMC Great Lakes (Boot amp Clinic)

 

We called them "pecker checkers" after a stop in subic

 

Lets see here.
NMCB 5
CBU 421
NMCB 133
NMCB 40 Fucked up Fourty
N.A.S. Corpus Christi PD
NMCB 22

 

Cuz they dont exist Lil John... CORPSMAN UP!

Hospital Corps school - Great Lakes, IL
FMSS - Oceanside, CA
1st Bn 3rd Marines - Kaneohe, HI
1st Bn 12th Marines - Kaneohe, HI
Psych School - San Antonio, TX / San Diego, CA
Portsmouth Naval Hospital - Portsmouth, VA
2nd Med BN - Iraq (out of Camp Lejeune N.C.)
Portsmouth Naval Hospital - Portsmouth, VA
USS Enterptise (CVN-65) - Norfolk, VA
Portsmouth Naval Hospital - Portsmouth, VA
currently awaiting deployment to Iraq the 1st week of October.

 

Boot Camp San Diego, Ca
HM A school Great Lakes, Ca
FMSS Camp Lejeune , Nc

Naval Hospital Oakland
1st Marine Div
F 2/5
SSP 2/5
HQ Bat 1/11
SSP 2/23
Iraq 2003

HM2 (FMF) OUT 1/04

 

Well sailors I have read all your responses and I'm a little disappointed. I had hoped that the "Fantom Crapper" would finally step forward. If you ever served at sea, you know who I'm talking about. He was everywhere-on every ship in the Navy. This swabbie would dump his load in the craziest places and disappear-never to be caught. Brother had one on his ship as did every sailor I've discussed this with over the years following my tour of duty. Please come forward if you're out there and a hamber. You truly deserve some recognition. We were just talking this morning about standing a "Snow Watch" at Greatlakes Boot Camp. Thanks to all of you. Sam

 

Or the Gibraltar monkey watch Those little bastards just jump right onto the ship!

 

USS Carl Vinson had a "shower shitter". Wasn't me.

I didn't do the Great Lakes snow watch but I was there. There were those signs in the head warning that crabs can jump six feet! I did Service Week in the bake shop making cinnamon rolls. Damn good cinnamon rolls!

 

Steve, I did the '05 around the world cruise on "Hotel 70" when were you there??