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  dennis e witham December 16, 2010 at 12:02pm

  was stationed at nas n.i., home base for my squadron VAW11 , had ADS WFS and W2FS was on 3 fareast cruises from 1960-1964 wasnt too bad of a station but i found better stations i would liked to have been stationed.
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  Larry Qualter November 2, 2010 at 7:07pm

  I was aboard U.S.S. Ticonderoga and we were homeported at North Island when not in Drydock up in Long Beach end of '69 to late '70.
  Spent time at AIMD Hydraulic Shop next to transit flight line. Also went to Non-Destructive Inspection training at NARF. This was first time work along Israeli Air Force mechanics doing the same training.
  Spent may weeks living in the transit barracks near the chow hall. Remeber nights when they had italian and Mexican food catered from San Diego. None of that on ship!
  Was in San Diego a few years ago and could not believe how little the base has changed except how few carriers are there.
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  Judith Cody June 25, 2010 at 9:26am

  Greetings. I was stationed at NAS North Island from 1987-1990 at AIMD Jet Shop/Power Plants. I loved North Island and southern California. I lived on and off base while assigned there. I was also TAD to the Restricted Barracks working there for my last year in the Navy from 1989 to April 1990. Such a wonderful group of people on this base.
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  Bill Pippin June 17, 2010 at 11:58pm

  I loved this base! I had been in the Navy about ten months. I volunteered for Vietnam(all the wrong reasons) and VS-41 was my last stop. We got off about 14:30, I believe. The barracks didn't open until 1530, so I had an hour to kill every day. I remember lying down in the lush grass outside of the barracks and really didn't care if it opened or not-what wonderful weather.
  I remember go to the exchange and buying an Elgin 8-track tape player and Santana's first album "Santana". The player came in two parts, a left speaker and a right speaker which also had the player mechanism in it. I would open it up and put one side to one ear and one side to the other. I would then play "Evil ways" over and over. Good times, easy times.
  Occasionally I would go to Coronado, but I don't remember why. Once was to see the Hotel del Coronado and the other was..well, your guess is as good as mine. I do remember watching the SEAL's lugging telephone poles around and some running an obstacle course in the deep sand at the beach..God love those poor souls.
  I really did love that area. I wouldn't want to live there now, but I surely did back then. Wonderful duty, just too short.
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  John D. Nilson March 19, 2010 at 1:52pm

  Our squadron(HC-3) moved there in1972 I believe. I was on my 2nd det, left NASIB and returned to NASNI. Nice base. We were on the east shore in a seaplane hanger. You could fly a copter through the hanger. I got out in 1974.
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  CHARLES W HORTON JR December 1, 2009 at 7:03pm

  This station was just around the corner from where I was while at 32nd Street and also I could see it when out on SoCal's.
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  AL Brannon July 29, 2009 at 12:43am

  I went to C school there for the S3A with VS21 then went TAD to A.I.M.D. V.A.S.T. then went to CV 67 JFK on a Med Cruise 1975 First S3A deployment to sea. Went to shore duty with VS41 until 1979 when I got out.
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  Marvin R. Lucas April 9, 2009 at 6:43pm

  I was with HSL-31 with the HS2H Lamps Helecopter, from 1987-1991. I also attended the Fuel Cell repair school at the Navy Depot there at North Island early 80s
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  Ken Colvin January 14, 2009 at 2:12pm

  Attended the AN/AAM-60 EOSTS Intermediate bench maintenance school, 10 weeks, 1983, I believe. Or was it '84.... man, I don't remember, lotta years gone by, lotta brain cells gone!