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"It seemed that the FORMER "tasty" Mr. Treadwell's life raft had a slow leak in it,and he just didn't appear to WANT to patch it up,and as a result it finally went down...as in "down the hatch"...of a HUGE grizzly.Ya GOTTA use a LITTLE common sense…"
"Me & the big sharks have made a life time pact: I'll just stay out of THEIR WATERS,and they'll stay out of MY LAND_LOCKED domain...Yes.I have thought about what to do in case my ship should ever have gone under,and didn't come up with a very good…"
"My wife, her friend and her sister went and saw the movie "Jaws" when it first came out. My wife had a large>>>read again "LARGE"<<< Popcorn and was between the two of them. When the guys head poked out of the bottom of the boat, they both grabbed…"
"I think I would need to get me a SPECIAL SHARK RAY-GUN,to ZAP those buggers when they start looking at me as their next meal...one that had eyes for each direction...But I suppose (maybe) just being alert .(..we're talkin paranoid here)...would also…"
"They DO look THREATENING!"
"It took me a while to get used to breathing with the snorkel, but the new ones are easy to use. You don't need weights or a wet suit. Just flippers and a mask and a snorkel. Just float along using the flippers as propullsion
The sun was so strong…"
The sun was so strong…"
"Hmm,you know...I think this IS the SAME ONE!"
"OOPS,SORRY!"
"with maybe a dozen double over-and-under SQUARE KNOTS tied to the 50' of chow line,and probably ought to consider either a LEFT-HANDED or RIGHT-HANDED freshly painted HAZE GREY SEA MONKEY WRENCH,just for good measure....Always good to do it right…"
"Boy!...That ought to give her an extra bounce.Hee Hee Hee!...Maybe she could be teamed up with " THE HULK " in the NWA...NO HOLDS BARRED..."
" I have never went snorkeling,but it appears to be something to get hooked on;just gliding along like you're flying under water,and I bet when you finally did cruise over that big absyss it DID give you a special scairy feeling.Not a feeling I…"
"I was in G'Lakes 11/56 & graduated 01/'57 company 640,Camp Moffett CSC Roach pushed us thru .
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"You know,Adrian,it IS kinda funny how those unexplained things happen to sailors once in a while....I haven't ever mentioned this before,but I once was in beautiful downtown Subic Bay,you know,where all the friendly ladies in the WELCOMING…"
"That's Ok. I never saw any sharks at all. The water was crystal clear and warm as bathwater and was real nice to swim in. The fish I did see were very beautiful and many different kinds. I have a few shells I found which were live critters…"
"hey,Mr.Blue Eagle,just wanna say THANKS to ALL of our Navy FIGHTER JOCKS....I remember providing flight recovery ops. during my time in the fleet,and was totally AWED by those guys who had to .(sometimes) FIND that floating rectangle,tell it to STOP…"
"Dave,we wore undress blues every day,and had to launder them at night,or pay the PRICE! It has really changed since I was there."
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Location
Claremont, NC
Birthday:
November 5
Rank
Seaman
Where were you or your family stationed?
uss James E Kyes DD 787
Veteran of Foreign War
The Cold War
Current Status with the US Navy
Honorably Discharged
Start date of your service
February 14, 1957
End date of your service
October 1, 1959
Comments
James when I was in Japan, we had a small Ham shack and I got to be friends with a second class RM that was a ham. he had a 2 watt transceiver in his car and we would work "Skip" and talk to Alaska and other places on voice. Neet, but i thought I was such a Hot Shot with code I didn't like voice very much. ha When I got out I thought about getting a Ham rig, but like you say, the cost then didn't fit in with trying to work my way through college and then a new marriage. Have thought about it several times since then but just never seemed to be convient to purchase the set up. Maybe one of these days...Yeah...Another hindsight thing...Funny story...when I was in Jr. High, I had a friend that got me to join the Boy Scouts (briefly) and he was working on a Morse Code badge. I started working on one also, but NEVER could get the code down. Then I end up in the Navy doing Code and darnn good at it if I do say so. Funny how things happen. I would love to take a cruise on a Tin Can these days and see how they communicate with the new gear. It wouldn't be like the good ole days, but then nothing is..
I know about Formosa patrol....Steaming along at at least 5 knots. ha Water was like glass while we were there. Several of the guys fished off the fan tail. Like you say, we RM's seemed to stay busy. We also pulled station ship Hong Kong that cruise. Nice liberty. When we came back to Long Beach, we went into dry dock for repairs and such. When we were getting ready for sea trials, I got orders by name, as RMSN., Never heard of that before, that got me shore duty at Kami Seya,Japan where all I did was receive code, work Radio teletype and single side band comms. Great Duty station. I extended a year there and tried to do it again to go up for RM!, but the co told me it would be six years or nothing, so I went home. I probably should have stayed in as I had a chance to go to Rota Spain and I understand it was a good base also. As you say, hind sight is always 20/20..ha Loved my job. though....
I think any major Naval station stateside treated their sailors like dogs.
Now shore duty in New Orleans was great! Very little Navy (one reserve destroyer) they treated us great!
San Francisco was like that for the west coast. I remember once going up there for the day on a bus and when my buddy and i got off, people just stood around and looked aat us. Didn't go there but twice. I guess i got spoiled with West Pac and Shore duty in Japan. Seems like I remember being around the Kyes some back then, So old now, I can't remember toooo much . ha ha
Hi James.. Noticed your comment about Norfolk. I was a tin Can sailor on the USS Mckean DDR-784 60-61 then off to Kami Seya Japan for duty at the Naval Radio Receiving Facility. Always heard from the east coast sailors that Norfolk was a tough place to be. Signs in the yard saying "Sailors and dogs keep off the grass" Glad I stayed on the west Coast....ha ha
I served on the Mahan DLG-11 from 63 to 65. We ran plane guard for the Mighty O, CVA-34 around the Tonkin Gulf for a few months. Lots of liberties in Olongapo, Yokosuka and Hong Kong. Here is a picture of us doing a highline in the South China Sea with USS King, our sister ship then.
I had two old schools - MMC Moore as our Company Commander in Boot and God Bless his heart HMCS Garrelts in Corps school. The Senior actually gave every one of us a silver dollar on graduation - damn I wish I kept that coin!
Hi James: Never got near a ship. navy corpman who spent all his 4 years hearing marines call me "Squid" and then when they were sick and needed help it was "Doc"! Go figure it out. It seems the ones whose rank was over corporal were okay but pfc`s and below seem to have had a terrible hatred toward any corpman around. I guess that is what gave me the sour tasdte taste about the navy and the service in general.
Welcome aboard!
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