Scuttlebutt

 As an interesting aside note, when I applied for Medical Laboratory School, I did not have enough time left in the service to get the school.  I needed to extend my enlistment for a year.  However, through a series of screw ups, the extension was never added to my enlistment.  While I was at Yorktown, I went to Petty Officer Leadership School and graduated in the top 10%  of my class.  By doing so, it decreased the length of time in grade before I could go up for PO1.  I still thought I had another year to go and I put that on my application for the HM1 test.  I passed the test and was slated to be promoted to  HM1 shortly after my first enlistment ended.  It wasn't until one month before my first enlistment was to end, that I discovered that the screw up in my records meant that they were going to let me out without having to serve the one year extension.  It was fine with me even though it meant sacrificing my promotion to HM1.  I got out, went to the University of Houston.  My intention was to get my degree and then apply for a commission and finish my 20 years as an officer.  I met my wife to be at my first civilian job in the lab at Bayshore Hospital in Pasadena, Texas.  That changed my plans and I never went back into the Navy.  But, I had the most precious wife the world has ever known for 51 years until her passing in July 2015.