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This is Em3 Electrician mate1976-1979, there were some fun times and bad times. the fun times were when we get to go to worldly ports. really like Egypt. the racks were really small. the food got a Little better when they opened the forward basically a snack bar. helped put that in as well. does anyone remember the JP-5 jet fuel in the freshwater and the bug juice they added to hide the taste. as well the fuel being in the shower water and slim on you that you would have after? i hope to hear from a lot of you from the Sara soon

I was at Sima 87-89 I started in the lagging shop then transferred to the boiler shop. It looks like everyone drove those vans they had me drive them for over 6 months they always put me in the big white van that thing was junk. I worked in the lagging shop hey Brian do you remember the boxing gloves in the lagging shop if I remember right Cox tagged you good. Is this the Stillwell that drove the hog with a bicycle horn on it? I remember the beer truck at the party.

My name is Michael Elliott I was in navy in Great Lakes .I'm looking for my navy keel book 1962 company 216 .From boot camp I went to Millington / Memphis tn. I had a 3 year hitch from may 1962 to May 1965- Land sailor I know somebody had to do it .I have searched the internet on & off for a few years now trying to locate my keel book with no luck. I would also like to hear from any one I served with -my email is mrmrse@yahoo.com. Thank You. mike

Looking of any and all personnel stationed at US Naval Hospital stationed at Subic Bay Hospital between 1971 and 1975. I was an O.R. Tech 09/1972 to 08/1974. I also had friends stationed on base in other units, last names were Bosch and another last name was Crump. Also may Filipino workers at the hospital whom I haven't heard from in may years. Feel free to pass on messages to me. Salamat Po! 

was aboard ffg-11 from 2/91 to 2/93. looking for friends from that period: CHALMERS, LOCKHART, BAKER and anyone remembering me. retired 1/95 from NETC Newport. now live Morgantown WV, wife and I own home and small business cleaning company.

EMAIL: marty.riggleman@yahoo.com

I was running the aft lift coil furnace one day and melting some bronze for a job we were doing in the foundry.

Most of the other guys were doing whatever waiting for the metal to melt so they could get the job done.

An Officer came down the ladder to the lower shop.  He was a Lieutenant JG, or "Junior Grade" as the Navy denotes. officers.  He was a "Commissioned Officer" and outranked me by a whole bunch, except for a few small details:

I was  only A Third Class Petty Officer but I was IN CHARGE of the shop, he did NOT have the training to be there, and he did NOT BELONG THERE.

I believe he was a new member of the ComServGru Three staff that was on board and this squirrel was not in the right tree.

He came back to see what I was doing.

Now, I was running an Induction Furnace and for those who don't know what that is, it is a furnace that melts metal by inducing an electrical current in the metal to be melted and this causes the metal to get hot and uses electricity at a very high current rate of 960 cycles per second.  Your home only uses electricity at 60 cycles per second to give you an idea of what I am talking about.

If you get a piece of metal NEAR enough to this furnace while it is running, it will get HOT real fast.  That is why I never wore any rings or wrist watches when I ran this thing.

This Lt JG came over and was watching what I was doing.  I said, "Sir, I must caution you to not get near this equipment while it is running.  It is dangerous."

He replied, "That's all right son.  I can handle it. Don't worry about it."

He then puts his hand over the furnace to feel the heat, much as one does over a campfire.

He was wearing a $400.00 Seiko wristwatch with the metal link band and all the dials and goodies that it could have.  A nice watch, to be sure.

In about three seconds, that watch got REAL HOT.  All the gears and links in/on the watch FUSED together and this guy was hopping around trying to get that watch off of his arm...

The watch band finally broke and he was rubbing his arm and cussing....He had a nice brand around his arm where the watch had been.  It looked just like the Seiko watch he had been wearing.

He picked up the still warm watch and looked at it, then put it in his pocket and walked back up the ladder, out of my shop. 

Education is a good thing.  Rank does have its privileges, but sometimes, not so much.

It is REAL HARD to not bust a gut laughing at times like this........

Hello,

I am looking for information, trying to gain benefits for my husband, Charles J. Rough (Rowdy). He operated #4 Catapult on the USS Ranger. I know that Veterans in the Blue Water Navy are still fighting for Assumptive AO Benefits & I am joining that fight. We didn't even get Medical Benefits approved until 2012. I don't understand why the government will not support its Vietnam Vets, they had no problem taking your support but they sure have a problem giving it.

Anyway, enough of my soapbox, I am looking for anyone who knew my husband & has any information about a TAD assignment where he went 'Boots on the Ground' to help train the Marines to run shore duty arresting gear. Records in KC state that not all TAD assignments were recorded or saved but I believe that there has to be something, somewhere. 

He also spent 44 days in Balboa Naval Hospital for an injury but again, no records. He has Hep C, Liver Cancer, Acute Pancreatitis, Congestive Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Hepatic Encephalopathy, COPD with Emphysema & has had Multiple TIA's. I believe that Dioxins were on the Carriers, I think that the Governments stand is idiotic but until they agree I have to fight the fight. 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, his memory has become very bad & confused.

Regards

Susan

Hello,

I am looking for information, trying to gain benefits for my husband, Charles J. Rough (Rowdy). He operated #4 Catapult on the USS Ranger. I know that Veterans in the Blue Water Navy are still fighting for Assumptive AO Benefits & I am joining that fight. We didn't even get Medical Benefits approved until 2012. I don't understand why the government will not support its Vietnam Vets, they had no problem taking your support but they sure have a problem giving it.

Anyway, enough of my soapbox, I am looking for anyone who knew my husband & has any information about a TAD assignment where he went 'Boots on the Ground' to help train the Marines to run shore duty arresting gear. Records in KC state that not all TAD assignments were recorded or saved but I believe that there has to be something, somewhere. 

He also spent 44 days in Balboa Naval Hospital for an injury but again, no records. He has Hep C, Liver Cancer, Acute Pancreatitis, Congestive Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Hepatic Encephalopathy, COPD with Emphysema & has had Multiple TIA's. I believe that Dioxins were on the Carriers, I think that the Governments stand is idiotic but until they agree I have to fight the fight. 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, his memory has become very bad & confused.

Regards

Susan

My dad served from 1951 til retirement in Philadelphia 1971.  I'm trying to locate sailors who may have known him in the early 1950s.  Some information was given to my sister and me a little over a year ago and it's important we find someone who may have known him personally.  He did his basic training in San Diego - entered on 11-20-1951.  His first assignment was on the USS Jenkins in early 1952.  Shortly thereafter on the USS Sproston, USS Huntington abd USS Greene.  Not sure of the dates of the aforementioned ships, but retrieved this info from his Navy records.  He passed away from Mesothelioma in 1982 at the age of 47.   Name: William (Bill)  (right).  Please contact me if you recognize him.

Hello shipmates. I am Darryl Teets, 'DJ', an OS2 on board the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) during the bombing of the BLT in 1983. Was wondering if there are any members who were part of the MARG 2/83 and were present during this time. Along with us was the USS Austin, Portland, Barstable County, and I think Harlen County. Of course the USS New Jersersy was there along with the USS Kidd and did some gunfire support missions.

We of course received those brave Marines who gave their lives because of the terrorist attack on the BLT. Never will forget that day or those we lost. 

Hello!  I'm Carl M. Bonner.  Bonner SN./BM3 to my shipmates and friends aboard the Mazama AE9.  I was on board from Dec. 1967 to 1970 when we decomissioned her.  We were in Vietnam in 1969.  We made one trip to Camaroon Bay and one trip to Da Nang Harbor.  We rearmed offshore in sight of land.  I'm looking for any shipmates who can remember and testify to a working party involving me and 2 or 3 more seamen, a winch operator, three 55 gallon drums, and our 1st Lt. Vadinsky.  Time is of the essence.  I've been fighting this fight with the VA for several years and my time is about to run out.  You will be talking to my son, daughter, or my sister if you answer this because I am not only 99% blind, but also computer illiterate.  

Thank you very much,

Bonner

Had the opportunity to get back in uniform after 33 yrs retired and pin Chiefs anchors on our daughter. She is in the reserves and lives in PA. Was a special moment for the both of us. I received her first salute as a Chief Petty Officer.

Proud to serve. "In ocean wastes no poppies blow,No crosses stand in ordered row,Their young hearts sleep... beneath the wave...The spirited, the good, the brave,But stars a constant vigil keep,...For them who lie beneath the deep.'Tis true you cannot kneel in prayerOn certain spot and think. "He's there."But you can to the ocean go...See whitecaps marching row on row;...Know one for him will always ride...In and out... with every tide.And when your span of life is passed,He'll meet you at the "Captain's Mast."And they who mourn on distant shoreFor sailors who'll come home no more,Can dry their tears and pray for theseWho rest beneath the heaving seas...For stars that shine and winds that blowAnd whitecaps marching row on row.And they can never lonely beFor when they lived... they chose the sea."

91 year old Ernie Andrus is one of the original veteran crew members that sailed LST-325 back from Greece 14 years ago. Yes, 30 Navy veteran crew members, average age 72 (at the time) sailed her all the way back! Like our crew that has restored USS Slater, DE-766, the crew of LST-325 have also done an amazing job of restoring their WW2 veteran. But, this "old salt" isn't stopping there! No, he's running across the country to raise funds for his ship!

He started out in October of last year (2013) in San Diego and is currently in New Mexico. You can check out his progress, comment and support him through his Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coast2coastruns/451518878297515

For those of you who live in NM and TX, or anywhere else along his route, head on out and join him!

This is one Navy vet that I am in awe of and could not feel more respect and admiration for!

I am a Homes for Heroes affiliate for the Hampton Roads, Va. area. Homes for Heroes is a program in which, I, as a buyers or sellers real estate agent gives a significant rebate back to my Hero at closing. The program recognizes Heroes as: military, police, firefighters, teachers, and healthcare professional.  Yes, there are other locate rebate or incentive programs but this one is national and was developed after 9/11 to honor and give back to our nation's Heroes.

If interested in more information, call me @ 757-537-5928. Looking forward to hearing from you.

I always thought that meant the ‘rush’ of folks that were on their way to do the same thing you were doing. I was wrong as I found out when watching the History Channel on a history of the Icebreaker!

The U.S.R.C. Rush was a United States Coast Guard Cutter sent off the Alaskan coast to put a stop to the whaling and hunting of seals outside the federally allotted season. At the time, the Seal population was being decimated by hunters for their blubber.

So, for those folks who still wanted to whale and hunt, they had to ‘Avoid the Rush!’.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/112384/police-hunt-down-foreigner-for-slay-of-transgender-in-olongapo

OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines – Police on Sunday started hunting down a foreigner suspected of killing a transgender in a hotel here on Saturday night.

A police report said Jeffrey Laude, 26, of Barangay (village) West Tapinac here, checked in with a “male, white foreigner” at the Celzone Lodge on Magsaysay Drive at 11:30 p.m. Saturday. The foreigner, however, left the hotel alone a few minutes after he and Laude entered their room.

Police said Elias Gallamos, one of the hotel’s room attendants, saw the suspect go out of the room, leaving the door ajar.

Gallamos later checked the room but saw a pair of slippers near the bathroom. He said he left the room, believing somebody was still there.

Police said Gallamos returned to the room at 11:45 p.m. and discovered Laude’s body, his head slumped in the toilet. Police said Laude could have been strangled and killed.

Another witness, Mark Clarence Gelviro, 22, the victim’s friend, said he and Laude met the suspect at the Ambyanz Disco Bar, also on Magsaysay Drive, at 10:55 p.m.

Gelviro told the police that Laude asked him to accompany them to the hotel.

He said Laude, when they reached the hotel, then asked him to leave before the foreigner could discover that they were transgenders.

Both Gallamos and Gelviro described the suspect as having “white complexion, with marine-style cut of hair,” standing between 5’8″ and 5’10” and between 25 and 30 years old.

The suspect, police said, was wearing a white and blue striped shirt with white sleeves, and black shorts when he and Laude checked in at the hotel.

Marilou Laude, a sister of the victim, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that the suspect could be a US serviceman based on the descriptions given by the witnesses.

She asked the police to prevent US ships docked here from leaving Subic Bay pending the investigation.

“What we fear now is that those US ships will leave anytime soon and this will make it hard for us to seek justice,” Marilou Laude told the INQUIRER.

Chief Insp. Gil Arizo Domingo of the Olongapo City Police Station 3 appealed to Laude’s relatives not to jump to conclusions on the foreigner’s identity and background.

Still Domingo said that they have started coordinating with the Law Enforcement Department of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) to allow them to board the American ships docked inside the Subic Bay Freeport to investigate the case.

Two US warships arrived here on Sept. 27 in time for war exercises between American and Filipino troops in the West Philippine Sea. Two days earlier, some 500 American sailors arrived here for a routine port call.

“There are [thousands of American] troops in those ships and it would be difficult for us to track the suspect, if ever he is a US serviceman,” Domingo said.

Domingo said the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) also limited the local police’s authority in immediately carrying out further investigation of US servicemen tagged in crimes.

The INQUIRER on Sunday afternoon tried but failed to reach Kurt Hoyer, press attaché at the US Embassy in Manila, for a statement on the suspicion of Laude’s family that the suspect could be a US soldier. In the five times that the INQUIRER called, Hoyer’s mobile phone was unattended.

A press statement from the US Embassy in Manila said at least 1,400 US troops participating in the annual Philippine Amphibious Landing Exercise were on board the USS Peleliu (LHA 5) and the USS Germantown (LSD 42) when the two ships docked here last month.

The 500 American sailors aboard USS Frank Cable, according to a previous press release from the US Embassy, were “eager to enjoy Olongapo City and strengthen their understanding of a country with deep historical ties to the US and the US Navy.”

“This visit will allow the ship to replenish supplies and give the crew an opportunity for rest and relaxation,” it said.

Read more: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/112384/police-hunt-down-foreigner-for-slay-of-transgender-in-olongapo#ixzz3FxMEEJvt 
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