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  • Retired at NATTC Millington March 1982 AMEC Instructor

  • I retired off the USS Briscoe DD-977 in June 1983 as ETC/SW and I was the Command CPO

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  • joined us navy in sept 1964, boot camp sandiego; to uss midway right after boot camp. assigned to V-1 div, made two westpacs with her. she went to the yards and i then got orders to cva 64, where i served in V-4 div for two and a half westpacs, before getting discharged. i was out of the navy for 14 years until i decided to join the navy reserves. changed my rate to os from abfan, and remained in the reserves until feb. 2000, when i retired as OS 1. it was rough at times but i would'nt change one thing. i am very proud of my service to our great country.
  • GMCS (SW), retired in 1991.
  • Retired in 1988, good life and a good choice in my life. Just retired from second job after 20 years. Would like to revist all the places I was stationed to see how much they have changed. I'll mke that my "Bucket List".
  • Enlisted Sept. 1969 forced to retire in 1989 with a little over 20 with constructive time....Medical made me retire due to degenerative disk desease....started out as a Radioman a year later changed to Air Traffic Control, and the last four years before retirement was spent teaching advanced Air Traffic Control (Course supervisor in approach control, Airspace management, Facility Management, and Enroute Procedures). Would have done 30 if they would have let me.....Ended up puting another 14 years in and retiring again as a Lt. State Corrections officer.

     

  • Enlisted 05/22/65 and retired MMCM(SW) on 04/30/94 with 30 years and 28 days thanks to contructive time. I was the last Command Master Chief of RTC San Diego. When the shut her down, I decided I'd hang it up also. It was great to start my career at RTC San Diego and to be able to end it there also.
  • CTOC RET 1974-1994..been there - done that.
  • AEC (AW) USN Retired 1969-1989 Served with RVAW-120 NAS NorVa (2 tours) and HSL-30 NAS NorVA for shore duty. VA-85, VA-34 and VA-75 NAS Oceana, VA for sea duty.

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retiredin 1996

active duyt from sept 1976-sept 1996 as A BT.Retired as a BT! my fault but I don't cry in my milk I always agreed with work and play hard much like most of us dinosaurs unlike our politically correct navy is now.Spent tours at ntc great lakes 2 tours on the uss Nashville also on the uss coral sea and 2 tours at sima Norfolk on the uss Belknap and finally the uss Yellowstone. Good times made a lot of friends and also saw a lot of really stupid people. glad Im retired though and some of those…

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RAO

Those of you seeking information on retiring here in the Philippines might want to check this out.Retired Activities Office (RAO) Subic Bay, Philippines.hope to see you soon Shipmates!!

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One Huge Event

Greetings fellow Navy retirees! I served for twenty five years, and have told many sea stories. I like to categorize them just a little by putting them into Liberty wild tale type things, and Operations this is what happened on an exercise or evolution type thing. Do you have a really BIG EVENT that was very cool or maybe not so cool that you would like to tell the rest of us old salts?

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