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  • Stephanie Stone May 22, 2011 at 10:12pm
    On a committee which is planning the West Coast 10th Anniversary Remembrance of 9/11 and need everyones help. We will be hosting it at the California State Veterans Home on 9/11. anyone interested in attending, have any time to help in brainstorming, or wants to help in the organization of the event please get in touch with me via this site. And please pass this along. Its time for us to come together as a Nation once again ... to remember all who/that has been sacrificed. Many thanks.
  • Adrian Hernandez May 22, 2011 at 2:06am

    Born in LA, lived in Coronado, San Diego, and Pleasanton CA.  I was a Navy Brat.  Enlisted in 1968 and had my physical and swearing in at the LA induction processing center.  Discharged in 1972.  After boot camp and hospital corps school I did a stint at NTC San Diego working on the base dispensaries for sick calls, the base hospital wards, and health records department.  

    Got orders to the PI and flew out of San Diego to San Francisco. And then followed by a nice little bus ride to Travis Air Force Base where I waited in a filled terminal with a mass of military, civilian workers, and dependents.  All waiting for flights overseas.  I was there for 11 hours before I caught a Boeing 707 Braniff International Airlines flight out of Travis around 2300 hrs.  I had a window seat and watched the city lights go by below us.  Then as we left the coast it became a black void, and thus started my long flight across the Pacific Ocean.  And good bye to California for a while.

  • Stephanie Stone September 11, 2010 at 12:47pm
    A Los Angeles native, I enlisted in '76 at MEPS LA. Spent my first 6 yrs in Florida and Bermuda, and 15 yrs in Northern and Southern California. Came back home to LA and currently live my hometown of San Pedro, across from Fort MacArthur.
    Love the CA Veteran. Currently serving as Chair for the LA County Veterans Advisory Commission...serving and preparing for veterans returning to the community. We are part of 23.5 million Veterans who live in the U.S. CA has more Vets than any other State, and LA County has more Vets than any other County. Looking forward to being a part of this group and hearing what all of you are doing in your community.
    Me, I'm a Mom of 2 in college, but not an empty-nester...not really. When the kids were small they brought home a dog or two and Alice the cat. Kids are gone, animals are not. (heavy sigh) Currently work in nonprofit public affairs while volunteering in many Vet programs/projects.
  • James W Ward September 10, 2010 at 6:51pm
    Enlisted in Los Angeles in 66 and separated 70 in San Francisco
  • Herb Mesler RMC January 4, 2010 at 9:25am
    Like LCDR Chamberiain I live in San Carlos. Joined USNR while in high school in 1955. Went to reserve meeting in big hanger on TI. Later attended and instructed at the USNR radio station on TI. About froze to death in those drafty old transit barracks upon my return from being stationed at NAS Cubi Point, Subic Bay, PI. Got out of the navy as a RMC. (my profile shows me as a Coastie...wrong.. I was navy and am trying to get that changed as I see no way on my profile site to do that)
  • CHARLES W HORTON JR December 1, 2009 at 7:40pm
    I served most of my career in the US NAVY 1979-1988 in California, as well as live in this state because my father was in the US NAVY.
  • David Lars Chamberlain November 15, 2009 at 2:21pm
    I'm in San Carlos (on the Peninsula halfway between San Francisco and San Jose). I was in the Navy from 1973 to 1993 - started as a SN and finished as a LCDR.
  • Andrew Preston Carpenter October 12, 2009 at 8:57pm
    I have moved to Sonoma CA. It is much better then Marin, the people are kinder, even though there are bad areas. I heard from the Navy. They could find no records of me being wounded in Iceland. They sent a multiple choice form letter that was checked off by someone there. Strange. They say it didn't happen, but I have the scar and the PTSD and so does the Marine who saw it all. I am going to Vet Connect on the 15th to talk to someone about this. It stinks, and it is just not right.
  • Michael Bankson October 12, 2009 at 5:12pm
    To be honest, I lived in North Edwards, but I didn't think anybody knew where it was, I did go to Boron High School, your right, It is a shit hole, back then and now.
  • Jeremy Herrera October 12, 2009 at 5:06pm
    Yeah my little town is no longer that little. In the next few months we will be getting a Big 5 and by 2011 a Super Wal-Mart is to come in. They are currently building a Loves truck stop off the Hwy.

    I tried to live in North Edwards a couple years back. I made it for 7 months and sold my house short to get back to Tehachapi. Other than having easy access to ride our go-carts, it was a big mistake.
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