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  Marlon Leon Tett October 13, 2009 at 9:55pm

  Where are you from Robert? Did you to school in Pasadena, or are you from some place else and we met on the Gompers? Do you know who "Chilly Willy" was...Curtis...Petty Officer 2nd Class Owens? Plus, are you living in California right now? You spent week-ends at my parents house...man, you making my brain cells go crazy!!! I need pictures Robert...I need pictures :-)
  
  By the way, what a great memory...Dee Dee and D'Artanyon will be impressed...my father died last year, but he too would have gave you a high-five...job well done sailor :-)
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  Robert Stewart October 13, 2009 at 8:22pm

  You should remember me. You have a sister named DD, a brother named Dartanyan, you dad was a musician, I used to spend weekends at your home in Pasadena on Altadena Dr.
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  Robert Stewart October 13, 2009 at 8:18pm

  Yes I remember J B with the beard
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  Marlon Leon Tett October 13, 2009 at 7:50pm

  Hey Robert,
  
  You must know me if you remember the "TD" mobile, do you remember JB? Where is your picture ID sailor? Now, I'm trying to remember who you are...hey, I will be in the chat room for a few minutes if you can make it there...it's on this website.
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  Robert Stewart October 13, 2009 at 7:11pm

  I was on the Gompers from Jan. 73 til july 75
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  Craig Lami October 1, 2009 at 12:16am

  I made 2 WesPacs on the Fat Sam and didn't complete either one. The one in 75, I was in Hawaii, Okinawa, Sasebo, Yakuska, Hong Kong, and Olongapo. I had to leave ship in Olongapo because of a death in the family. I don't know where the ship went next. I caught it in San Diego when it got back. The nexty on in 77, I went as far as Olongapo and ended my tour there. I transfered to DATC/FMAGPAC for 2 years, then back to the Gompers for the duration of my enlistment.
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  Marlon Leon Tett September 30, 2009 at 8:52pm

  Hey Craig or Joseph, I was wondering do you know our next stop during the Westpac tour after we left Olongapo in the Philippines and right before we made our stop in Hong Kong...was it Taipei, Taiwan or Thailand, or some other location that my mind had forgot.
  
  On the starboard side of things; when we broke down in the summer of '75, in July, we didn't go back to Pearl Harbor(as I remembered) because we were too far out...the nearest port we could dock at was in Okinawa. Why I remember this so well is because I was a shorty and requested an early out, and the captain granted it and I was told that I will be dropped off at our next port which was suppose to be Olongapo. I had planned this six months in advance, but we left San Diego sooner than I hoped, so in order to get let out in the Philippines, which was my dream, I had to request for an early-out. That's when Fat Sam decided to get a cold and I ended being left in that dull-no action-no fun Okinawa. Sailors couldn't drink or mess with the women outside the base...boriiiinnnnggg:-) Remember Fat Sam broke down twice during two Westpacs...plus we ran into a typhoon...that when the best sailors lunch ended on the decks:-)
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  Craig Lami September 22, 2009 at 10:14am

  I was one of the guys at the club. With 1000 men on board and 4 section duty, there was about 750 of us at the club. Rummer was that we bought 750 cases of beer and 50 cases of hard liquer. The part that amzed and pleased me was with so many people there and being so drunk, there was not one fight.
  I was kind of bummed because we didn't go back to Okinawa after the typhoon. The World Fair was there and I really wanted to see it.
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  Joseph A. Landry September 22, 2009 at 4:27am

  I had duty and we had emergecy underway detaial and we had to man the moring line with axes incase we ha d to get underwaySCARY TIMES
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  Craig Lami September 21, 2009 at 10:29pm

  That's the one. As I remember it, we had to go back to pearl for a couple days for repairs, then we headed for Okinawa. We pulled into Okinawa just ahead of a typhoon. The ships we were supposed to work on there were already out to deeper water because Okinawa wasn't typhoon safe. We only stayed in port for 4 hours to take on fuel and everyone except the duty section went to the EM Club for 4 hours. One of the ships we were supposed to work on in Okinawa had a major engine room fire with a fatality and the other ship pulled it into Sasebo.
  Sasebo wasn't even on our itinerary, but we had to fix the other ship there before it could go anywhere. We ended up staying in Sasebo for about 6 weeks. Then we went to Yakuska for 6 more.
  I was stationed in the foundry in R1 division.