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"Ron, come join all of us on the Pattern Maker / Molder Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/navy.molder.patternmaker/"
"Chief James Stryganek left SIMA Norfolk for the Puget Sound. He worked in the R1 Div office. He did the Desert Storm Cruise and made Senior about 95 or so."
"I am glad to share it. I have a couple more that I will post. These may be the last photos of any intact foundry onboard a US Navy ship. Are there any decom'd tenders left that have not been scrapped?"
"I cast a few of these out of yellow brass onboard the Sound in the early 90's."
"Mike Holland finished his tour onboard Puget Sound. His wife was pregnant when we embarqed on a Med Cruise in 92 and his child was born while we were gone. Instead of taking one of the leave cycles upon our return and visiting his wife and child,…"
"USS Puget Sound AD-38-Foundry, in Brownsville, TX just before scrapping. Maybe the last picture of 81A."
"Very impressive. Someone had burnt fingers polishing that brass."
"What an elite and insane bunch. Work with moletn metal inside of a steel box, no A/C and do it in places like Saudi Arabia?"
"Chew, Stillwell and myself all went to the Puget Sound. Horton went to the Shennendoah.
Six months after this picture was taken the four of us would be reunited again in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm."
Six months after this picture was taken the four of us would be reunited again in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm."
"R1/81A, Desert Storm Cruise, Med 2-92."
"I saw one of those optical pyrometers, we had one onboard the Sound but we never used it.
Is that an induction lift coil furnace?"
Is that an induction lift coil furnace?"
USS Puget Sound AD-38, backing into the channel at NOB Norfolk after leaving Pier 24, for a fuel stop in Augusta Bay, Sicily and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Late January 1990.
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