O/T: How many of you are or were in the Navy at one time.

One of my best buddies was a marine with an all American indian detatchment that operated in Southeast Asia during Nam. We never got tired of giving each other crap about our respective services. His brother had been a corpsman attched to the marines over there, so he was always kinda stuck in the middle of our little bashes.

He'd make squid and taxi service cracks, and I'd remind him that much like bananas, marines are green in color until they hit the beach, then they turn yellow. Our friend Pat had his Bradley blown out from under him during Desert Storm - we figured that was bad enough without us giving him hell.

 

My dad was stationed on the USS Enterprise during the same time............ Weird.

 

Does Navy brat count? Dad was a submarine captain, torpedoed my mother, and I breached to the surface at the Groton sub base hospital.

 

Going on 27 years now...

Active Duty: '80-'83
Boot Camp & MM A-school @ Great Lakes
Nuke School at Orlando
S8G Prototype & ELT school, Balston Spa, NY
Plankowner, USS Florida, SSBN-728 (Blue)

NROTC: '83-'87

Active Duty: '87-'04
Flight School, VP-31 & VP-9, NAS Moffett Field, CA
PG School, Monterey
USS George Washington, CVN-73
VP-26, Brunswick
CNO Staff in the 5-sided wind tunnel

...and I've been a contractor since then, still supporting CNO staff

 

US Naval Reserves 1988 - 1994
Bootcamp and A school in Orlando summer of 88
Signalman 3rd class, up for 2nd when I got out.
I was attached to the USS McKee AS-41 Sub Tender
and to the USS Roarke FF-1053 from the Desert Storm years on...
The Clinton Admin closed 3 of the 4 bases I drilled at: NAS Alameda, Treasure Island, and Rough & Ready Island, Stockton, so I got out.

Well, it helped pay for college, my first Harley, and kept me from growing my hair long or doing drugs!!

 

Ditto!!, 22 Years in the Corps, Retired 2002.

 

Interesting thread none the less. Did not read through all 4 pages, but one of our Orlando Rumblers, "D.J." is still in the Navy. He is stationed out of Kings Bay Naval Submarine base, St. Mary's GA. His Hamb name is "Zor" if you want to send him a PM. I believe he is out to sea right now. He has a bunch of cool Hot Rod projects patiently awaiting his return home.
JT

 

USN----Never Again (USNR, '64-'66 active) Ole Pork

 

Did my time 71-75, nothing to shout about.
Son is now in 15yrs, CPO working on Master Chief.
Granddaughter has plans for Annapolis & flight wings.
Al

 

USS Springfield Guided Missle Cruiser
1965 - 1967 Med Cruise

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwFk2VaDXok
Sorry, I couldn't resist! Actually, I respect and appreciate all branches of the military; thanks for keeping us free to enjoy hot rods, and whatever other people are into.

 

What about anyone being on the USS Constellation from 68-72?

 

USN 1975 to 1979
Lightning Fast Chicken Plucker (Crypto)
GLakes for Boot, Pensacola A school, Iceland, Texas Streamliner School, Puerto Rico and home after 4 years. i had a 60 mach 1 and a 54 pan in Sabana Seca. I brought the Pan hom and sold it to a frioend in 1995.

 

Buwhahahhahahhahahha! My 1st thought also!

11B4X transmorgified into a 31B4X with the H3.

Nah, we love all the services! Thanks for your service to all of us and those like us.

 

Boot camp 7/67 San Diego
Ams-A school- Millington Tenn. 9/67-10/68
First duty station-Whidby Island Washington VAH-123 (A3D, the whale )
Alameda Calif. VAQ-131 (Med cruise 12/70-3/71)
Alameda , VAQ-130 4/71-9/71
If I had the chance to do again I would PROUDLY.

OLD HEMI

 

There was at least 5,000 of us on there at any one time, I was part of ships compnay division S-6 taken care of some strore rooms

 

Retired in 03. Glad to be out but it was fun most of the time. Nice to say that I retired at 38. No regrets!!!

 

Retired in 03. Glad to be out, but it was fun most of the time. Nice to say that I retired at 38. No regrets!!!

 

Boot camp Great Lakes '66
U.S.S. Tutuilla, Anthoi Vietnam, tending swift boats etc.
U.S.S. Ajax, home port, Sasebo Japan
U.S.S. Hector, home port Long Beach
Fleet Activities Sasebo Japan
U.S.S. Columbus, home port Norfolk Va
U.S.S. Dixon, home port, San Diego CA
U.S.S. Acadia, home port, San Diego CA
SIMA San Diego, fixing ships on the waterfront
'87 retired Master Chief Machinery Repairman

 

FTM2 72-78
USS England CG-22
USS KITTY HAWK CV-63
US Navy Base Subic Bay, Olongapo Hard Hat Shore Patrol/Armed Forces Police
Vietnam vet
And a lot of other places I'm not going to get into here.

http://cg22.ussengland.org/Pictures/JoeCoulter_a/JoeCoulterPics1.htm
http://cg22.ussengland.org/Artifacts/Misc/olongapo_patches.htm

 

I am not in the Navy but have been supporting the submarine force as a civilian (engineer) for nearly 26 years on the T-hawk program (the current weapon of choice!!) in Newport, RI. Used to be on the SUBROC program,...anyone remember that one!!

 

1996-2000, Usn, Em3(sw)
2002-2006, Usnr, Is2(sw)

 

Boot at San Diego 1960.
Assigned Cimmaron AO22 in Long Beach, CA.
Then assigned to COMSERVPAC Headquarters at Pearl Harbor.
Mustered out at Treasure Island as a SK2

 

enlisted aug-60 bootcamp greatlakes ill. went aboard uss forrestal.med cruise 61.transferd uss lake champlaine.quonset pt.R.I GOT MARRIED( 44 -years great wife! ) got out in 64. enlisted in navy resurve 86. seabees acb2 little creek va.RETIRED IN 03

 

5 years, sima pearl harbor, subbase pearl, USS Fletcher destroyer. HT.

 

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
HM-15 "Blackhawks" - Jan 2009 to Present - Corpus Christi, TX to Norfolk, VA

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My pops was in for 20 years. Joined in 77, was all over the world til I came along. He was on the Kennedy and the Saratoga. He did weapons, building bombs in such. Sounded like fun, but when I wanted to join he said no dont worry about it I served for ya?!?! Hes da man but I wish he lived closer to me...

 

damn lowclass 11bravos.... who taught them how to type?
six years US Navy from 1982-88 little side trip to a swampy stinky place called Ft Benning for a little R-and-R and a marksmanship medal the Navy couldn't figure out how i should wear....... ANYWAY
spent six years with some of the best (and worst) people i've ever known; had opportunities offered to me (and stolen!) that out in the WORLD i never had; absorbed lots of knowledge without meaning to; gained loads of insight as to how things work, mechanically and philosophically: in all, i had a good time and wasted all my pay every time i had the chance.
lost a Marine acquaintance who had transferred to Beirut in '83 in the bombing; he was a strack kid; sharp as a tack.
i hope the present day Navy has overcome the problems i encountered with issues of prejudice in the '80's. nuff said.

 

USN 62-65 boot at Great Lakes than some amphib training at little creek than USS Francis Marion APA 249 "the swamp fox" EN3. Learned how make those old mike boats run . Made some good friends ,plenty of gear heads on that ship.

 

----- AM1, USN (retired) -----
That sure looks good, don't it? I retired this past September. Twenty years was a long time.
The check (and bennys) I'll get for the rest of my life ought to make up for it all...