"I served in Gitmo from Dec 64-Dec65,  I was the person who gave the Bananna rat its name. My best friend Tom Siegfried and I used to bow hunt them and the natives working on base ate them. We also fished, spear fished, snorkled, and scuba dived…"

"Almost forgot, the storm in the North Atlantic, 6 days, 100' swells and 80 knot headwinds, the Chaplin gave any who wanted them, last rights. The cooks could't cook, making a half pot of coffee was a task as it would slosh out faster than we could…"

"I remember being aboard the Cadmus for the Med cruise and we where in Valetta Malta, 65 or 66 I was a mess cook. Remember piping revelee in the mess cooks quarters and they all got up, showered, put on clean uniforms and went to the mess decks and…"