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I went to Naval Recruit Training Center, San Diego in October 1973. I was with Special Company and sang in the Blue Jackets Choir. In February I attended Naval Hospital Corps "A" School at San Diego Naval Hospital and our nurse was LCDR Karen Ormsby, HM1 Nichols was our Company Commander. From there I was assigned to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune and I learned so much from the physicians there. I got out in 1977 but reentered in 1980 and was stationed at Naval Hospital San Diego where I met my wife Katherine who was a civil service nurse. We married in 1982. Katherine passed away in 2002 from cancer and her ashes are interred at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.