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  Frank E. Rueckert September 11, 2013 at 4:27pm

  I went to TALOS (TATTE) "C" School at Mare Island during the fall of 1968. Graduated in December 1968. There were four in my class.  From there I went to Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station, Seal Beach, CA. I was there with the USS Long Beach, CGN-9 in 1971-72. Should would like to find some of my classmates. Great memories. Some sad ones, too.
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  Lora Nicely Smith June 10, 2013 at 4:09pm

  I went to school twice here, in 1979.  I went to KY-8 maintenance C School, then was sent, in typical Navy fashion, to a tennant command that had no KY-8s.  So in a few weeks I was sent back for KW-7 maintenance C School.  Many of my best Navy memories are from my time there, sure would like to find some of my old friends.
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  Jeff Wollam May 27, 2013 at 11:28am

  I attended school there from May to November 1984.  Nato Seasparrow Surface to Air Missile System.

   
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  JEBooker June 26, 2012 at 10:25pm

  Got to good 'old "Nightmare Island" in July of 86.  Loved the area, went camping at either Lake Berryessa, or Clear Lake every weekend off!  

  Met Admiral Richard O'Kane at the O club where he was signing his book "Wahoo"...still have it and always brings back memories of my time climbing "3D Hill"
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  Robert F. Fagan Jr. October 2, 2011 at 1:09am

  I went to DS A and C school in 82/83 Data Link Tech 1623.  Went back for AN/SYA-4 C school and UYK-43 C school.  Was an instructor there from 87-91, Phase 2 of A school, Com tran 10.  Had a lot of fun there both times.
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  Art Ritchie September 30, 2011 at 7:09pm

  I graduated from the crypto repair school before it was part of the CSTSC.  That was in 1962 and the school was upstairs in the Shop 67 building.  I graduated from two schools, the KW-22 and the KO-5.  The first was 12 weeks and the second was 18 weeks and they ran concurrent. That was my 2nd tour at Mare Island.  I had been there earlier, '58/59 at the radio transmitter site on the north end of Mare Island.  I later returned for a 3rd tour in 1976 as the senior instructor at the crypto repair school (CTMS) which was then part of CSTSC.  The school had moved from shop 67 to a building that had once been the old hospital morgue.  It was on Railroad Ave just across the parking lot from the galley.  I retired from there in 1977.  I made one last trip to the school in the 1980's recruiting for the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
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  Raymond Littleton Highers, III June 26, 2010 at 2:39am

  I went to the AN/SWY-1(V) Self-Defense Surface Missile System (SDSMS) maintenance school from 06/1993 to 07/1993. Earned NEC 1157.
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  Jim Donaldson June 3, 2010 at 11:34pm

  I was in the first group of instructors at the school from August 1962 until September 1964. (It wasn't called Combat System Maintenance School then. I think it might have been called the Naval Tactical Data Systems School.) I was in the computer department. There were also display and communication departments, and an introductory topics department.
  
  I haven't found anyone on the web who was there that long ago. I was only 20 years old when I started there, probably the youngest instructor. Maybe that's why I can't find anyone else: they're all pretty old.
  
  Are there any of you out there?
  
  The school head was Lt. Cdr. Fain Curtis. The Technical Training Officer was Lt. George Tyler. The head of the computer department was Senior Chief Frank Tirimacco.
  
  I was an DS3 until about May of 1963 when I made second class. There was another DS2 instructor, Larry Kriegle.
  
  Does anyone have any memories to share from those early years?
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  CHARLES W HORTON JR December 1, 2009 at 7:39pm

  In 1970-1972 my father I am very sure was in this command. I believe he was an instructor. He picked up RMC in 1972 and from there went to NAS Miramar-Destroyer Base aboard the USS HENRY B WILSON DDG-7??? He retired from the Wilson in 1975/12. I remember as a youngster going to his workplace on Mare Island. I have many memories of this Island, Federal Terrace as well as Vallejo.
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  Larry Edgar November 26, 2008 at 9:34pm

  I recently visited Mare Island (which was closed in the 90s) and took some pics around the old schools command. Posted on my page here.