USN Navy Hospital Corpsmen Marine Corps Air to Ground Combat training Center Twenty Nine Palms CA
Anyone have memories of being a filed medic or hopital corpsman USn on the MarineCorps Air to Ground Combat Training Center at Twentynine Palms Califiornia? I served there from early 1977 through 1979, Would like to contact anyone who remembers. Other eras comments are welcome!gregoryhunt590@yahoo.com
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Thanks Richard for showing those Photos. Ya He was a Great Guy! and his wife was wonderful also. Had a great opportunity to spend the Day with them and have a lot of photos i took even his autograph on my white hat sealed in a clear bag.
Have his Address also that he gave me when I sent him the photos I developed after the Change of Command. Ya.... He will me missed!
I errored he was honorarily given the GMC rate from MCPON Terry Scott in 2004, he also played a LCDR not Lt as previously noted. he was in the Navy in the 1930's and reenlisted after Pearl Harbor....
Jerry Ballard, yes I do it is Ernest Borgnine who was meritoriously promoted to GMC after getting out as a GM1...he also played Lieutenant Quinton McHale, USNR in "McHale's Navy" on TV.
USS Prairie Stationed in Long Beach 1984 - 1990
Worked in the Barbershop as an SH and then worked in the Ship's Store and was MAA
But enjoyed working in R-5 Division in the photo Lab and as a photographer went to the USS Wallbash for the Change of Command and Guess who was the Guest there:
He died this last week sadly.... Really nice guy too. Know who this is? the other person in the photo is me
Joined USN while a senior at Hiram Johnson in Sacramento, delayed entry program. Left for boot camp San Diego 2 weeks after graduation. Arrived at OM "A" School in Great Lakes, ILL directly out of boot camp. Graduated in 13 weeks and extended to get OM3 at graduation in December 1974. Two weeks leave and reported to USS Hector (AR-7) at Mare Island on Jan. 1, 1975. She pulled out the next day for my first WestPac. I got out in '79 and joined the USNR in 1983 in Seattle at Naval Control of Shipping, then moved to San Diego Area in 1984, where I joined up with NAVSSES-219 in San Diego till 1987. Some of the very best times of my life. I regret not staying in to retire on active.
Jerry Ballard, it's not often you find another shipmate. I really enjoyed the "San Berdo" and all the friends I made on it. One in particular was Cletus Arnold (Eddy Arnold's nephew). He wrote the words to a song about the ship and I wrote the music to it. That was really fun to do that with him. May God Bless you in all you do.
N. A. S. Lemoore Ca. 1965-69
Assigned to Attack Squadron VA-122
TAD to IMA Power Plants
Joined the Navy right after graduating from Napa Sr Hi in June of 1958...I hung up my Navy blues in Aug of 1978.....retired E-6 (radioman rate).