Yeoman is a rating in the United States Navy where the primary duties of the enlisted sailor are clerical or administrative in nature.
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  • Michael Kusuplos August 9, 2010 at 6:25pm
    Michael; Couldn't help but wonder, why did you go from a RM to a YN?
  • Michael Kusuplos August 9, 2010 at 6:23pm
    Both of our stories are the stuff that sea stories are made of!

    Betcha that there is no way that this kind of stuff could happen today!

    Well, I guess that it is called progress?
  • Michael McWatt August 9, 2010 at 6:17pm
    Great story! My wife had orders to NAS Jax and I had my orders up to the Milwaukee in Newport. I went to the OIC of the YN School and asked if she could get her orders modified. She made us promise to get married within the week and she would make a phone call. One week later, we were married in Baltimore and my new wife had orders in hand to OCS Staff in Newport.
  • Michael Kusuplos August 9, 2010 at 6:08pm
    Michael:

    Never went to the club at all. The reason that I went to Bainbridge was to close to my home for a couple of months. I am from Lancaster, Pa was about 35 minutes away from the base from my parents house. Had my car so, I stayed at my parents and lived like I was I civilian for about two [2] months.

    The Chiefs at the A school made it easy for me, guess it was because I was a sea sailor. I had the duty of turning on the lights and the coffee in the morning. So I would drive the 35 minutes in the morning, get to the base, park behind the school, open the door and turn on the coffee and lights. When the day was done, I was gone. After a 13 month cruise to West Pac this was welcome change from the sea going routine.

    Knew that I wanted to get back to West Pac. Also knew that PAMI was located at Bainbridge. Ask the Chief at the A School to introduce me to the " Appropriate" individual that made the YN assignments. Meet with him, went down the open assignments list and found the open billet for TACRON Eleven, Two bottles of whiskey latter, had me orders for this command.

    Once I finished up A school, I went back to the ship, Paul Revere LPA 248, to pick up some gear I had left behind. Boy did those orders make the PN Chief of the ship in San Diego madder then Hell.

    Told sorry Chief, but this is what BUPERS wants, so I got to follow orders. So long!
  • Michael McWatt August 9, 2010 at 5:48pm
    Mike, I started out in Bainbridge in 1970 at RM A School. I met my wife of 40 years there, she was a student in YN A School. Remember the Fiddler's Green?
  • Michael Kusuplos August 9, 2010 at 10:09am
    During the Zumwalt days, in 1971, was able to go from my ship in San Diego to Bainbridge for A School there!
  • Lois Hardy August 8, 2010 at 10:42pm
    I went thru YN A School in Meridian in 1979 (October) and then moved onto my first duty station at White Sands.
  • Michael McWatt August 8, 2010 at 8:47pm
    Went through YN A School in Meridian as an RM2 in 1980 when I transferred to the Naval Reserve TAR Program.
  • Ken Norbeck June 12, 2010 at 5:35am
    Was only FA in yeoman A School in 1965, kind of funny having red strips on when starting school.
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