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  Jim Decota January 28, 2012 at 11:04am

  Ken, Chelsea was also know as Naval Hospital, Boston. It is on the other side of the Mystic River from the Charlestown Navy Yard next to that big green Mystic River Bridge. This may help (view from NE looking towards Boston in the 60's)

  
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  kenneth mcdowell January 28, 2012 at 9:03am

  david where is Chelsea?  Ken
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  David Fauquier January 27, 2012 at 7:39pm

  I was at Chelsea from Summer of 67 to sometime late 68. Worked on Ward 2. Remember Nurse Carlin, Schlosser. I am going to dig out pics that I have from there. anyone remember Judy Garland coming to the hospital?
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  Randall L. Bruns December 24, 2011 at 9:30pm

  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the past, present, & future personnel who chose HM as their NAVY calling !!
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  kenneth mcdowell December 24, 2011 at 3:53pm

  MY NAME IS KEN MCDOWELL, HMC USN RET. JOINED THE NAVY 1959, RETIRED OFF OF THE USS SIMON LAKE AS 30 31 JUL 79.  IWAS AN INDEPENDANT TRAINED DOC, ALSO  A PHAMACY CHEMISTRY TECH. LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE IN MY TIME FRAME.  KEN
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  Steve Lund September 29, 2011 at 2:10pm

  This is a stretch, but I am looking for anyone who served with 1st FSSG at Camp Pendleton. I was a member of A CO, 1st Medical Battalion from June 1977 - Dec. 1978.
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  Randall Keith Hunter September 26, 2011 at 12:10am

  @ Adrian, Yup, I had a charge nurse that was hell in heels, LT Louise Fontaine-Moore. She wore her hair like Princess Leah, well before there WAS a Princess Leah, we called them devil horns. LOL But I tell you what, I learned more medicine from her than than just about anyone else. She as a damn fine Nurse. And really one of only 4 I remember from my entire career.
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  Adrian Hernandez September 25, 2011 at 6:39pm

  
  Randall, funny story about the spelling.  The young ensign nurses who were our age were cool and not so military and we could feel relaxed around them while still respecting their rank.  But the older and senior ranking nurses could be a little tough on both corpsmen and the younger officers.  But those senior nurses taught us well.  Patient care, first aid, suturing, injections, starting IV's, meds, etc.  They taught us well because they knew we were going to do all the above when we went to the fleet, and we might sometimes have to be on our own doing it.  Pretty scary stuff for 18 and 19 year olds.
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  Adrian Hernandez September 25, 2011 at 6:06pm

  
  
  
  
  Thomas, we didn't have to carry a gas mask around on the Big E.  But if those were anything like the Mark IV's we had in boot camp, (the rubber was cracked and the tear gas got through LOL!), then they wouldn't have helped.  I saw your pics of the Oriskany.  It was sad to see her go but she went down with pride and it was spectacular.  The Big E, Midway, and Oriskany were the three line carriers in the Gulf Of Tonkin in '71 when I was there.
  
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  Thomas R Fournier September 25, 2011 at 1:05pm

  I had a friend Rick Perry that worked on 3E of GLNH and one night when I called his ward he answered it in the following way "Through the grace of God and the inginuity of Alexander Graham Bell you have reached 3e HN Perry speaking can I help you" It was funny til he answered that way and it was the night supervisor.