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"Wecome aboard Robert. Enjoy your retirement.
Jack Butler
YN1 USN RET"
Jack Butler
YN1 USN RET"
"Welcome Susanne to the old salts who have served their country honorable for 20 years.
Jack Butler
YN1 USN RET"
Jack Butler
YN1 USN RET"
"Yes I remember those LST's. My first ship was LST 1138 (Steuben County) they changed that after I departed. I picked up 1138 in Long Beach Shipyard in 1952. We left Long Beach in August 1952 for Japan then on to Korea. Our first stop was Hawaii and…"
"John: I think this a very good idea you got going. It remainds of some things that I remember when I was a young seaman in 1953. We was underway from San Diego,Ca to Korea. We must have been out to sea for about a week and one night this big old…"
"How well i recall the Shellback festivities and the initiation. I have my Shellback crertificate framed and hanging on my ( Navy Wall) As i approached King Neptune on my knees i tried to ease up to his big fat belly filled with grease and soot from…"
"When I was aboard the USS WASHBURN (AKA 108) and homeported in San Diego in 1953 we had a French Canadian name Moises Whitehorse. He was a Chief with his tribe in Wyo. Anyhow every time we get a new Ensgin aboard of course they would put in on the…"
"NAS Corpus was my last duty station also. I was stationed their from 1969 to 1974. I ran Discipline Office in Bldg 3 which is now the USO building. We processed an average of 200 prisonners a week since we had to take care of New Mexico, Okla, Ark,…"
"i went over the equator in 1955 aboard the FDR-CVA 42 just after we left Chile and it was just before that we had are visit with King Neptune. We had to craw from the 2nd deck all the way to flight deck. We had to wear our blues with the pants one…"
"Good Afternoon on Fathers Day. Just reading over some of the comments and it appears that I am the only black shoe that will be making comments. I arrived at NATTC, August 1961 and was in charge of the Discipline Office which was located on the…"
"I retired as a YN1 in 1974 and enjoyed every minute from working over the side, clean heads, mess cooking and compartment cleaning and being a boat cox After doing all this duties I felt that there must be something else better then this, so that is…"
"Hello shipmates. Retired January 1974 as a YN1 at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi in charge of the Discipline Office arriving back from Viet Nam after one year. I felt that this was the place for an old Iowa kid. I enlisted June 52. Spent two…"
"I attended basic training at two different locations, one was Camp Elliott which was right next door to Naval Air Station, Mirmar which which was out in the desert. Then we moved to NTC San Diego, Ca for the last two weeks. We had a total of 13…"
"Marty: I went through SERE training in Virgina in 1969. We was temp assigned to the Amphious Base at Little Creek. We were taken out to the place where you might have gone and I spent 1 week of hell and one day in the POW building getting bounced…"
Don: I am glad that I found someone that went thru Camp Elliott. I went thru from Jun 52 to first week of Aug and then transferred to NTC. San Diego. Smothing sailingJack ButlerYN1 USN RET
I was just going thru some of old papers and I noticed a Warrant for my Arrest and it was the charges that was listed before I was sent topside and kiss the belly of the King Neptune, I just about feel over, it was dated June 1955. It is going up…
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