Gender
Male
Winchendon, MA
Birthday: August 27
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Gender
Male
Location
Winchendon, MA
Birthday:
August 27
Rank
Chief Petty Officer
Enlisted Rating
Hospital Corpsman
Where were you or your family stationed?
Boot Camp & HM A School San Diego, Ca. National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, Md. Field Medical Service School/11th Mar. Regt. Camp Pendleton, Ca. Third Medical Batt. Camp Hansen Okinawa, Japan. First Medical Batt. (TAD Nav Hosp) Camp Pendleton, Ca. Naval Undersea Medical Institute Subase Groton, Ct. (Student). USS Truxtun CGN-35 San Diego, Ca. Naval Submarine Support Facility Subase Groton, Ct. USS Truxtun CGN-35 San Diego, Ca. Naval Undersea Medical Institute Subase Groton, Ct. (Instructor).
Veteran of Foreign War
The Cold War
Current Status with the US Navy
Retired
Start date of your service
July 17, 1972
End date of your service
August 1, 1992
Comments
forgotto say surgical was center..next to the double doors oposite the military ward. I had an office at ed and BAS when serving there.
How a qaud zilch and clueless got stuck with grunts, I can't say.. could have used more info in those days..
Chief, Glad to hear from you. In those days we called it the "Branch Hospital" it had a Military ward of mixed enlistees, medical, surgical,and behavioral too., The hall way was for retirees and officers. The was an ED, lab, and a Obsterics or family ward. The morge was in back. Admin. was in the forward hall,. Pharmacy was jus next to the entrance past the "Quarter Deck or what served as it. I served B.A.S and field tours an all of the above... So when were you there, Chief? Would be nice to trade notes. Again very happy to hear from you.. I am still a medic civy side... 36 years now.
guess a lot had changed from 1960-1977 when youi were there. I loved that base. Hated to hear that it had closed down. I've alwys wanted to return to that place it was so beautiful and tranquill there. When I left Barbers Pooint I went to a tailhook unit in San Diego at Miramar got lots of shipboard time in with a lot of Wespac cruised .. I finally settled in San Antonio, texas
guess things had changed a lot between 1060 & 1977. I love being at Barbers Poiont it was such a beautiful and tranuill duty station. I was an Airedale and was assigned to VU-1 at the time. worked mostly on the flight line and outdoors. I had always hoped to return to the base at some point but was very saddened to learn that it had been clossed I will and do miss it a lot Aloha!
Thanks I would prefer to have light Head winds and low turbulence . I came out of the Anti- Sup Navy Vp- 49 and Vp 56 flying P-3s Thanks lots
I left Oki on 7 Nov 1973 for Treasure Island CA and RELAD
Lindsey,
Thanks for the welcome. Just as a note, I was stationed at NUMI as an Instructor also (from 1984-1986 or thereabouts). Last duty station was USS Shenandoah in Norfolk. Again, thanks for the welcome. Saw you were with the Marines. I did a tour with Kilo 3/5, Ist MarDiv in AnHoa (June 69-June 70).
Don Crews
Thanks for the welcome Chief!
Dan Minnerly
hi Chief,
The drop down list did not include any Navy rank, only Marine, so I use the corporal rank and added HM3 in the comments. I see you were in Camp Hansen for a while. Hope we left it in better shape for youthan we got it.
Terry Quintin