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"Welcome aboard John. I don't want to appear as a know-it-all or play, "Can you top this", but a good friend of mine and running mate, Reynaldo Tapia, TM2, Steam Torpedo Shop, spent time helping two-Japanese Coastal Defense Submarines with some…"
"I was the Steam Torpedo Shop when I wasn't on Sh-- -ah, make that Hotel St. during the time of Senior Chief Hank Gerasimoff, the mad White Russian and the best CPO I ever served under. Well, Herb Franz was a pretty good Chief, too.
One of the…"
One of the…"
"My understanding was that this patch came about sometime in the 1930's (Around 1933 was the guess) and it was still the official patch/logo/whatever when I left in 1966 and lasted through the closure, or the change."
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Ronald L.m Shaffer AMH-3/PO-3