STACK CLEANING AND LAGGING REPAIR
Who remebers cleaning the stacks and the soot in the stacks turned into an acid that burned the piss out of your eye's and any cuts you had and the lagging that was full of asbestos. The Chicago was a great ship to be on.
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Ed Wakeman: I'm originally from Michigan,living in North Carolina now. Can't stand the cold and snow anymore. I got a Jarhead buddy out of Mt Morris,Mi. We plan to visit the Edson next spring
Alphonse I went up to Bay City and interviewed for the Ship Sup/Excutive Director job last month about 3 weeks after she arrived. They are having all kinds of issues getting her to the final location. I'm hopefull that everything will be worked out by spring and I'll go back up then to help out. In the mean time any of you DE/FF types should check out the Destroyer Escort Sailors Assocation and USS Slater DE-766. www.ussslater.org
Edgar Wakeman: Are you aware of the fact that the U.S.S. Edson is going to be a Museum ship in Bay City Michigan? Just Google U.S.S. Edson Museum.
great joe!
i retired as a lab tech at shell oil , martinez ,calif
moved back to my roots in arkansas
was a btfn on board the uss valcour avp 55 from 1961-1963 after i left the valcour i went to work for the comm or mass as a 2nd class steamfire at tewksbury state hospital,i retired from there on 15 feb 2002
We salute all the WWII Vet's living and pasted who were members of the Greatest Generation. SALUTE!!!
BTC(SW) Your father was another Real WWII American Hero! Salute!!
My Dad put me in the Navy cause I was a bad boy,what is ironic about it, the day I reinlisted to stay in ,he died.
BT Kilgore,
My Father is a Ret. ADJC with 30 years of service and l agree with you. My father was proud of both me and my middle brother who were Navy like him.
BTC(SW) I know all of our fathers who were former USN back in (all) ot the days' view us a little bit more differentley when you came home from bootcamp! You were one of them now, and they understood! To BT Joye, your father was a real Hero!! Salute!! RK