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  Shane Wilson August 7, 2014 at 11:39pm

  I reported in May 1991 to Company 165. PO2 Deevers and PO2 Wellington were my Company Commanders. Any 165 guys out there?
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  Thomas Collier July 29, 2014 at 3:46pm

  WHO SAID THE NAVY WAS NOT OUR FAMILY. 
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  Harry Stewart (Pete) Gault July 29, 2014 at 3:38pm

  I broke boots in San Diego in September 56.  Can't remember my Company number but my Company Commander was B. J. Woods, MM1 USN.  A most memorable fellow.  Years later I was a CWO-2 and the Missile Gunner in USS Boston CAG-1 and a pinstripe named Glen Sentman, who had been in my Boot company, reported on board to be the Gun Gunner.  He had been in a subtender in Guam. Woods was in the ship as a MMCM. Gunner Sentman said he used to invite him to the CPO mess and introduce him as his son.  Chief Woods did a pretty good job of raising both of us.
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  James Huckabee, Sr. July 28, 2014 at 9:55pm

  Company 070, FEB 63 thru APR 63.  Company Commander: EM1 D. A. Kriz.
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  Kenneth Reno July 27, 2014 at 11:57am

  I was in company 607 Dec. 1959
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  William A. Whisenant, Jr June 25, 2014 at 1:45am

  Thomas, I was also at RTC San Diego in 1960. I arrived there July 5 and started out in CO 311.  I left the last week of September.  Finished up in CO 338 due to a short hospital stay.
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  Lindsey E. Ford HMC (SW) June 24, 2014 at 5:00pm

  Can understand that Rick, I rode a LST for a couple of days and the weather was relatively calm and even then there was "rock and roll." Does not take much to get a flat bottom going. In November 87 the Truxtun went on a 30 day North Pac, once we got past Oregon or Washington, it was miserable. Talk about literally getting rocked to sleep every night. The one thing the "Tommy T" did was to clear out one section of the salad bar and saltine crackers were there 24/7. They actually worked, This was the only cruise that I came close to being sea sick. One time was for being queezie, the other 3 or 4 times I just needed a snack and the mess decks were closer then the Chief's Mess.
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  Thomas Collier June 24, 2014 at 4:17pm

  MEANT TO SAY MY SON. "OLD FINGERS NOT WORKING TO WELL."
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  Thomas Collier June 24, 2014 at 4:16pm

  CHIEF, MY  IS STATIONED AT NEW HAVEN COAST GUARD ARMORY. JUST GOT THERE  FROM SOUTH CAROLINA FROM ABOARD ONE OF THEIR SHIPS THAT WAS DECOMMISSIONED AND SOLD. 
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  Rick Gamber June 24, 2014 at 4:11pm

  Another sea sick story.  I spent 3 years on the Iwo Jima and didn't even come close; even those days when you took 3 steps left, 3 steps right and 1 step forward to get down a passageway.  When I was at NH Newport RI I worked in Industrial Hygiene and Occ safety and health and would get tasked with underway heat, noise and safety surveys on the ships assigned there.  I got tagged to participate with yard trainer boats at the SWOS school otherwise known as boat driving 101.  In Feb while operating in Mass Bay with rookie drivers in 10-12 ft seas I came close but the Master Chief told me if I let go in front of the boot officers, I fail.  Didn't happen, only because of what the Master Chief said.