Gender
Male
Milton, FL
Birthday: June 18
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Gender
Male
Location
Milton, FL
Birthday:
June 18
Rank
Petty Officer First Class
Where were you or your family stationed?
Great Lakes Navy Hospital & Hospital Corps School, Nas Lemoore, Uss Oriskany CVA-34, VA215, NAS Pensacola, NAS Whiting Field USS John F. Kennedy CV-67
Veteran of Foreign War
The Cold War, Vietnam
Current Status with the US Navy
Honorably Discharged
Start date of your service
April 10, 1969
End date of your service
February 15, 1979
Comments
Hello Thomas, I am sure our paths have crossed on the big John. I was on board from 1975 to Aug. 1977. I slept in Med. berth and worked in Dental. I was a Boatswain mate 3rd but transferred to dental as a striker. There was the ships surgeon, tall from Atlanta and I believe he smoked a pipe. Even though he did a surgery on me, I cant remember his name. Your pic looks very familiar, but it has been some time.
ya, the thing that gets my goat is a little more than a year ago I got back from 3 YEARS in Iraq. Of course that doesn't count for VFW membership because as a civilian I didn't get a campaign medal. And even though I was a fobbet, I took fire, responded to calls during rocket and mortar attacks ate the same food and slept in the same quarters as the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. Oh well. hey at least I was very well paid.
Doc Young was on the Big O, during 'Nam. So I have no idea what his Rate may have been.
Regards
Doc Hunter
Thomas,
I started at NTC/RTC GLakes Jan 74
NAVHOSPCORPS School GLakes 74
Naval Hospital/ NRMC Charleston SC 6/74 to 12/77
US Naval Hospital Keflavik Iceland 1/78 to 12/80
Naval Hospital MCAGCC 29 Palms CA 1/80 to 11/83
USS Juneau (LPD 10) 11/83 to 11/86
NTC San Diego 11/86 to 12/86
Naval School of Health Sciences, San Diego CA 1/87 to 12/90
Fleet Marine Service School, Camp Pendleton CA 12/90 to 1/91
H&S Co, 3d Med BN, 3d, FSSG, Camp Hansen, Okinawa Japan 2/91 to 3/92
Medical Dept, H&S Co, Combat Service Support Group 1, MCAGCC, 29 Palms CA 3/92 to 7/94.
I see you were on the USS Oriskany. Do you ever remember service with a Richard Young? He was also a Corpsman, but I don't know what his dates of service would have been. He was average height, dark complexion, looked very Mediterranean actually. When I met him he was CPO and I got to work for him at Charleston. Great guy, taught me a lot of Navy stuff. He used to talk about the Big O a lot. He really liked it there.
Regards
Doc Hunter