1961 to 1963---- uss trutta ss-421 conventional submarine--key west,fla.
1963 to 1964---- nuclear power school --- bainbridge,md.
1964 to 1967---- uss ben franklin ssb(n) 640 blue crew --- gaum
6 years-eight months and ten days ----- e-6 --- electrician's mate first class
US Navy 1971 – 1975
HM3, Hospital Corpsman
USS Barbour County – LST-1195
Home Port: Long Beach and San Diego, CA
Thanks azflycaster for bumping the thread…
And thank you Ultradog for starting this thread 3 years ago! Hello fellow Hospital Corpsmen Jim Ruffner, Tinsel Loaf, and TMiller …
(BTW, TMiller, I also was doing flight deck duty receiving refugees during the Fall of Saigon…
and thanks for the memories of Olongopo, posted 10-16-04).
Hats off to all of our servicemen everywhere… Happy Veterans’ Day!
I spent two years at Tripler Army Hospital in wonderful Honolulu despite my concerns about being drafted on 6-6-66. Worked in the Public Affairs Office and was Managing Editor of the Caducean for a part of my service. Aloha from Maine.
You may be in the minority, but I have heard that sentiment expressed by many people, and believe so myself. Discipline, respect for authority, the list goes on - things that seem to be waning. Not that young folks are all going to pot...
Dave
Self respect, confidence, job skills, a bigger world view, performing a service...if there were an option in mandatory service to go into the Peace Corps or do some other kind of committed service to this country, I'd be all for it. I was never cut out for the military and I always knew it, but the Red Cross, Peace Corps, volunteerism that is meaningful and long term, if it were a requirement, even if it were run like the military...I'd do it, and it would have given me more direction those years I was in college and didn't know what to do next with my life and didn't know who I was. If I had no familial responsibilities now, I'd do it at this stage in my life.
Just a thought.
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ingrid
1967 24' Tradewind #19104 ~ Forums #4449
USNR - 1956 thru 1967 DM2
Active duty, Kodiak Alaska, USS Navasotta AO-106, USS Jason AR-8.
Active reserve included an active working Intelligence Unit.
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Escondido, CA WBCCI #2055, VAC Charter Member FCU, WBCCI Unit #004 ESCAPEES SKP 58345 AIR #13642
08 Safari Sport 22, 03 Toyota Tundra
73 Argosy 22
US Army MP , '64-'66 , Headquarters USAREUR Honorguard . Back then you had to dodge the insults , today we are heros , go figure , and so the world turns . Thanks to all for making my day .
Hi, drafted December 21st 1965.
U.S. Army Specialist 4th Class
Basic training Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas.
AIT Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas.
PDS 565 Medical Group, Baumholder, Germany.
Medic
Ambulance driver
M151 Jeep driver and radio operator
3/4 ton truck driver
Duce & 1/2 driver
company projectionist
generator mechanic
wheeled vehicle mechanic
NCO Academy graduate
#1 Honor graduate; generator operator and mechanic's school
#1 Honor graduate; wheeled vehicle mechanic's school
Honorable Discharged December, 7th 1967
I was quite busy for two years.
Bob
And in answer to previous post; I never got Veteran's Day off.
US NAVY - 1970 - 1990
YN1
USS Truxton DLG(N) 35
Pre-Commission Crew - USS Missouri BB-63
Pre-Commission Crew - USS New Jersey BB-62
COMNAVFORKOREA
NAVCRUITDIST SDIEGO
NAVSTA-Long Beach
Retired
__________________ "Better to have more then you need, then need more then you have because you don't have enough!" AIR #: 8129
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