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Your Best Liberty / Port O' Calls

Posted by Adrian Hernandez on September 27, 2014 at 2:08am

I only had two places for liberty back in the day.  Olongapo and Singapore.  But what a liberty I had in those fine cities. 

 Never got to Europe, or Australia, or other places of the world.  But happy with what I had.  

Rock us, or should I say Billy Goat Butt us, with a few of your favorites!


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  • Mark A Ballance December 30, 2014 at 12:06pm

    Olongapo. Perth was great, but short. Olongapo was kinda WESTPAC home.

  • Douglas James Riley September 29, 2014 at 2:37pm
    Olongapo was the hottest. But like RM1 Lewis, I liked any port that allowed us off the ship!
    Hong Kong and Yokosuka for buying stuff. Busan, Okinawa, and Olongapo for the girls.
    But as our WestPac detachment headquarters, Subic Bay had the best barracks and chow hall!
    (As TAD boat crews, we lived off the ship in Subic Bay)
  • Leonard Lewis RM1 September 28, 2014 at 9:06pm

    Any port we happened to pull into was a good liberty port.  Kingston Jamaica was good back in 1962.

  • Douglas James Riley September 27, 2014 at 9:37am
    You mean best places? I hope your time in Asia wasn't totally in only two ports!
    • Adrian Hernandez > Douglas James Riley October 4, 2014 at 12:40am

      Yes Douglas.  Yes it was.  Olongapo/Subic was a year long liberty when I was stationed there.  Still recovering from that, HA!   

      On the Big E, Singapore, Olongapo, and Yankee Station were our only hang outs back then.  Seemed it was the only time we had for anyway. 

      Big E was the last year of my enlistment.  So I was out of time. 

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