Gender
Male
Chambersburg, PA
Age: 79 Birthday: March 30
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Gender
Male
Location
Chambersburg, PA
Birthday:
March 30
Age:
79
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class
Enlisted Rating
Culinary Specialist
Where were you or your family stationed?
Arlington, Virginia— Quarters “K” Barracks, demolished Bainbridge, Maryland— Schools and Training Center- closed 1976, base officially closed 1986 Norfolk, Virginia— U.S. Naval Deperming Station & Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba—Naval Base, Bay Hill Galley and barracks VIETNAM ERA Boot Camp— Great Lakes Naval Training Center, company 426 Discharged— U.S. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa.
Veteran of Foreign War
The Cold War
Current Status with the US Navy
Honorably Discharged
Start date of your service
August 26, 1965
End date of your service
August 26, 1969
Comments
thanks for the welcome, i will add info to profile soon
philip
Emmet, Qtr's K was my 1st Duty Station after Boot Camp. Reported Feb 58 for one year.
Reported as a FN and changed to SN and became a CS Striker. I went on to make the Navy a career and retired as a CWO4 Supply Warrant Officer. I had a great career. Then worked Navy and Army Civil Service with 2yrs in Sigonella, Sicily and 11 in Germany, what a ride!!!
I now live in Manning, SC with my beautiful wife and 2 Toy Poodles. Howard King
Emmet, Thanks for the friend request! I'm so happy you enjoyed the recording.
Another ship at Lambert’s Point in 2012,
http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=116477
Deperming process, not much has changed since I was stationed there in 1967.
http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=30002
Welcome to NavyVets. Never was on the East Coast, always a West Cost guy, but did 20 years and would do it again If I could. - Chaplain jerry
Welcome Emmet. glad you're here. It looks like you are off to a good start. I like your profile photo.
Hello Emmet,
I worked over at the Liquid Oxygen Plant at the Air Station. The plant was at the end of runway overlooking the entrance to the bay. Best duty station I had. Would go to mainside to go to the commissary to stock up the kitchen at the plant. Sometimes we would shoot over to the White Hat or the Copa. We had a nice little EM club over on our side. There were about10 or 12 of us working there. We stayed in Quonset huts along side the plant. No barracks for us. Air conditioned too! Hitched a ride on some of the ships that were headed to port calls in the islands too
Met one of the guys I was stationed with at the plant on this site. We arrived at GTMO within a month of each other and left a month apart too after a year there. Saw his name and made contact. Got together for lunch and found out we live within 10 miles of each other in NJ. Have stayed in touch.
Before GTMO I was on board USS NORTHAMPTON CC-1 from Sept. ‘67 until Feb. ‘69. After GTMO I went to Newport RI on board USS MISSISSINEWA AO-144 in Feb. ‘70 until my discharge in Apr. ‘71.