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  • John Barell May 18, 2013 at 7:03am

    Richard,  Thanks very much for your warm welcome and the pic of ships pushing that berg out of the channel.  How well I recall the incident, though I might have been off Glacier at the time.  I see you served on Navasota, an oiler.  Prior to Glacier I was on Mattaponi, AO-41, a tanker converted to an oiler during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  I also enjoyed our visits from USS Mauna Kea (AE-22) to Hong Kong and Japan, Sasebo, Yokusaka (sp?), Tokyo.  Vividly remember steaming into Tokyo with little sampans darting in front of ship to cut off the dragons trailing at the stern of their craft.  Hong Kong was most atmospheric port ever visited and, fortunately, we were able to visit Kowloon. Married 43 years and about to set sail around British Isles for a bit of vacation.

  • Gene Gowen RM2 May 3, 2013 at 4:16pm

    Richard Navasota sounds familiar to me. Our temder was the Hamel AD20. Three of us joined the Navy, out of High School ,and one on the guys was a storekeeper on the Hamel, the other one sat in San Diego bay on some ship, as an ET.  and made one trip up to Wash. state.in four years.I wouldn't trade my sea time for anything...I found out there was a BIG Big world out there coming from a small town in Texas..

  • Gene Gowen RM2 May 3, 2013 at 10:45am

    Richard it sounds like you enjoyed  Japan as much as I did. I think we made all the ports there on my first WestPac tour. We also did Station Ship Hong Kong for a month taking care of the communications for all there.We didn't do a lot of running around though. Wouldn't let us go to Kowloon,,,too much commie activity at that time, so I didn't see a lot of it. I recently saw a pic of Hong Kong and thought ..MY GOD what happened to that place.Harbor is full and it has really grown. Back to Japan....When I left my Tin Can, I got orders to Naval radio receiving Fac Kami Seya,Japan. About 30 miles north of Yokohama...Heaven on earth. No inspections for the whole time I was there and great duty. we had a lot of CT's, Army, Marine detachment, Coast Guard Loran sta.and some Air Force. Small security base but lots of folks.Really had to watch what you said or you would end up in Adak. They didn't fool around. One Friday I was in the Barber shop  and one of the CT's said something to the barber about what he was doing...Monday morning he was on his way to Adak. We had lots of Marines to guard us as well as a Japanese army detachment with German Shepherds running the fences. Almost got married while I was there...Good Memories...... 

  • Gene Gowen RM2 May 2, 2013 at 2:58pm

    Richard it has been about 53 years since I was in Sasebo ,on my Tin Can ,and to be honest I don't remember a lot about it now. The "Big Guys" took me everywhere so we were probably there. ha

  • Kara Lynn (Barnes) Peterson May 1, 2013 at 5:00pm

    I'm not sure of the exact year when women started deploying down south.  I did my summer support tours (3) in 1988, 1989 and 1990/91.  Women by the time I started were well established in McMurdo as well as smaller bases. 

  • Randolfo Aragon May 1, 2013 at 4:30pm

    Congrats to you for your long married life.  I believe that I also would still be with my beloved wife had she not passed on with breast cancer in 1991.  We would have had our 30th year together.  I didn't mention that after my discharge in October 1963 I re-enlisted in 1965 as an HM2 and cross trained into the CT (Crypto Tech) field. After graduating from CT School in Pensacola, FL as a CTR2 (manual morse intercept operator) I was assigned to the NSGA site at GTMO where I monitored the Cuban/Russian missile sites and made PO1. Since I was fluent in Spanish I was redesignated as a CTI1 (Spanish Linguist). Later, I attended the Defense Language Institute at Monterrey, CA where I learned Russian and was designated a dual Spanish/Russian Linguist.  Subsequent tours were keeping tabs on the Soviet Fleet in the Far East and in the Med and made CTIC and CTICS and assigned as the Senior Enlisted Advisor in my final tour at Sinop,

    Turkey. I returned to the NSA and retired in 1985 and settled in Albuquerque, New Mex.  

  • Randolfo Aragon April 30, 2013 at 7:53pm

    WOW! That is truly awesome!  My spouse also attended Miller HS and graduated in 1959.  Her last name at that time was 'Salinas' and she had an older brother Joe Dan Salinas who also attended Miller.  Also, all of her younger siblings graduated from Miller HS in subsequent years.  After graduating she attended the DelMar Technical College and got an LVN License and then went to work at Spohn Hospital on Ocean Drive. Then she married me in July 1961when I was an HM3.  

  • Kara Lynn (Barnes) Peterson April 30, 2013 at 4:01pm

    Thanks for the welcome.  I was with NSFA in the personnel office.  It was a great duty assignment.  Loved my time on the ice.  I will check out the Antarctica link. Thanks again.

  • Randolfo Aragon April 29, 2013 at 3:37pm

    Sorry, but I rarely knew anyone from the NAS or other commands.  I was stationed at the OLD Navy Hospital (1959-1962 on the other side of  the base.  I married a native Corpus girl in 1991.

  • nicholas norman beckman April 23, 2013 at 6:39pm

    I printed this photo many times at mcmurdo the one of the three ships pushing the iceberg   are you the one that took it....

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