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"Prop wash? on a DE? You got me on that one!"
"They DO look THREATENING!"
"The only knots I knew were suture knots. But I also remember this Knotts.
Gosh."
Gosh."
"Hmm,you know...I think this IS the SAME ONE!"
"with maybe a dozen double over-and-under SQUARE KNOTS tied to the 50' of chow line,and probably ought to consider either a LEFT-HANDED or RIGHT-HANDED freshly painted HAZE GREY SEA MONKEY WRENCH,just for good measure....Always good to do it right…"
"Sea Monkeys frighten me. And I heard that whales are afraid of them too.
Golly!"
Golly!"
"I think I recall seeing one at some nightclub back then, after quite a few rum drinks. Say wait a minute.
Was it this one?
photo by evan russel"
Was it this one?
photo by evan russel"
"OK, so it is only so so! I will only use it to replicate the authentic documents that were aboard! But.....
now that I missed Ship's Movement again and I am UA, the typewriter and my ship are about a hundred miles down the Hudson now! I just hope…"
now that I missed Ship's Movement again and I am UA, the typewriter and my ship are about a hundred miles down the Hudson now! I just hope…"
"Was it absorbed Leonard? Was it really?
Here's proof it wasn't."
Here's proof it wasn't."
"YES!!! I had to stay in Sandego and get a whole new med record including shots before I could entertain my adventure to get to my ship in WESPAC only to find my ORIGINAL med record was ALREADY THERE!!! Don't try and feed us crap about you…"
"Adrian,
It was really the A3s (The Whale) and E2s (Eye in the Sky) that were too big, but the "Bell of the Ball" (the A5 vigilante) left the deck at 65,000 lbs. We had a lot of reconnaissance equipment. We could tell if the targets were hit,…"
It was really the A3s (The Whale) and E2s (Eye in the Sky) that were too big, but the "Bell of the Ball" (the A5 vigilante) left the deck at 65,000 lbs. We had a lot of reconnaissance equipment. We could tell if the targets were hit,…"
"You know,Adrian,it IS kinda funny how those unexplained things happen to sailors once in a while....I haven't ever mentioned this before,but I once was in beautiful downtown Subic Bay,you know,where all the friendly ladies in the WELCOMING…"
"Didn't you ever see a Corspman type? Injections, yes, catheters, yes sutures, mabye! But, typing? No way!
Where were most of the erors and problems in your service record? Why the Medical Records, of course!"
Where were most of the erors and problems in your service record? Why the Medical Records, of course!"
"I'll probably need a least 50' of chow line for that."
"It must have been very hard to land a big aircraft like that. Even on the Big E's large flight deck. I seem to remember a time when that huge catch net was set up. What happened there?
Remember this? I'm attaching an incredibly old decrepit…"
Remember this? I'm attaching an incredibly old decrepit…"
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Hello. That photo you shot and posted, it looks like the mail shed that we used to store mail in. We had Conex Boxes lined up inside to store mail to keep it try during rain storms. Was that shed closed to the Ramp and Texie way? Thanks We started to use that shed 1966 I left July 1968. Thanks
Adrian, Semper Fi! Was reading a few notes on the Corps School page and noted that you graduated in Apr 1968. Our Company graduated 15APR68. Company 27-68. I have been able to contact about 44-46 of our group of 62 graduates. Some I missed by 2 weeks or 2 months. About 6 have died but none was killed in Viet Nam. I am guessing about 25 of us went to Viet Nam. I live in the same town (Fullerton) as another classmate that I went to school with. Met each other in a grocery store one afternoon. He had been with the 1st MARDiv and I with the 3rd. Will post another comment on the Corps Page....Terry
Former HM2, O.R.Tech at U S Naval Hospital, Subic, Bay, R.P. and have many good memories, I lived off base later in my tour. Anthony "Tony" Martinez. Drop a line sometime.
adian you were talking about the baracks ship in subic tha t might have been the apl 30 that i stayed on in da nang they pobley tow it to subic
Adrian. update on the mudslide.. It happened on a Tuesday Sept 4, 1970.. Hope to have more later.
Yep, that was the one, and for this country boy it was a culture shock when we landed in Clark then rode the bus to Subic.
We may have been on the same flight in 69'. Sounded exactly like what I felt that same year.
Hi Adrian,
I agree those were the days, one question for you in your days at Cubic Bay naval hospital can you confirm for me that there were indeed some wounded vietnamese children at the Hospital in 1969 I believe they may have been brought there by one of the Hospital ships.
Old shipmate,
Peter
Joshua Alexander