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"Ken Colvin posted a status"Mike!Howya doin'?Wish could say all's been well,but no,lost Dad to cancer in Mar,2nd wife divorced me in May,been hell,but hangin' in there.""
"Hey, Doug! Wow, man, been a long time! Yeah, I got some mileage on me, a divorce, remarried, separated lotsa times, 2 more kids, health going downhill, on 5 yrs probation, etc. Let's see how you look now! : )
Glad to hear from ya! I'm in San Angelo…"
Glad to hear from ya! I'm in San Angelo…"
"Yeah, John, some of those names ring a bell or two. MCPO Meek, MCPO Shepard, CPO Weeks, and I think I remember Jordan, Huls, and Moran. Now to exercise the ol' noggin......some of the guys I worked with were AT3 Doug Adams, AQ3 Mike Blevins, AQ2…"
"John, Anthony, ya'll seem familiar to me as well! 'Course my memory ain't so good as it use ta be, thanks to all the brain cells I killed with all the good beer and whiskey I consumed in the Navy!! Let's see now...while I was in 64D I was day shift…"
"Well, Ah'll be dipped! It's my ol' "brother" and fellow sea dog, Cowboy! I was wonderin' when you'd mosey on over here, glad to hear from ya, bud! How's the folks, where ya at now, whatcha doin'? Man, it's been what, 4, 5 years, huh! Well, holler…"
"Hiya, Bob. Yeah, I guess I would look familiar, what with the "air brakes" sticking out the sides of my head! Anyway, I was always TAD to the AIMD FLIR shop, where'd you work? And, sadly, no, I haven't heard from alot a the guys I knew, but I'm…"
"After Boot camp, got sent to Millington, Sep 1980. Went thru Aviation Fund.s, BE&E, AV"A", and AFTA. Almost flunked AFTA, I failed the final exam, so had to go before an oral review board. I explained I had been under stress lately ( got news that…"
"My time on the Ike was very short! Back around end of '84 I was with VA-85, I had just got back from AN/AAM-60 EOSTS school in North Island,CA. I was TAD at the time to AIMD Oceana. All ofasudden, I got orders to check out, and report to VA-75! I…"
"Attended the AN/AAM-60 EOSTS Intermediate bench maintenance school, 10 weeks, 1983, I believe. Or was it '84.... man, I don't remember, lotta years gone by, lotta brain cells gone!"
"Thanks for the welcome, Douglas, glad to be here! I wasn't actually in Lebanon, just part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force over there when my squadron deployed on USS Forrestal in '82 and then with USS John F. Kennedy in '83-84. But there…"
"I made the pre-deployment work-ups on Sara in '85, when the Airwing moved over from USS John F. Kennedy. I was with VA-85 then. Unfortunately, I transfered to NAS Oceana AIMD for shore duty, before the cruise, but I had some good times while on the…"
"Company 165, July - Sept 1980. Company Commander BMC Warner."
"I joined the Black Falcons mid 1982, after completing the A6-E FLIR systems school. The squadron was out on work-ups on the FID at the time. I made the '82 cruise on FID, and pre-deployment and cruise on JFK in '83-84. Made the work-ups on the Sara…"
"I first came to Oceana, 1 Jan 1982 after completing Avionics "A" school and AFTA at NATTC Millington, TN. I then spent a number of months in school learning the A-6E FLIR system before being assigned to VA-85. When I wasn't deployed at sea with the…"
"I was lucky to get assigned to VA-85 in time to make the '82 Med/IO cruise. Man, Benidorm, Spain was great! And getting to see Rome, Pompeii, the Pyramids, and going through the "ditch" were experiences I wouldn't trade for anything! I'm glad the…"
"Hiya Al! Thanks! You got some great pics yourself. I'm going to add some more today, soon as I get 'em scanned to my PC! Man, we sure look young in our pics, huh! We were all young, and experiencing a great adventure, yeah, there was work to do, and…"
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Dang! There's a few pictures and folks that I had forgotten! Hope you've been well.
And I was the rebellious one ???????????
Glad to see you here. Great pics! Thanks for reuniting with VA-85.
-Al