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"I did my last tour in the Navy at RTC. Got there in 1972 and retired in 1975. I thought it was pretty good duty. Between companies my hold job was testing."
"While I was at T.I. teaching ET-A school in the late 60's I also worked part time at the auto hobby shop in the evening. Everybody knew me as " Mac" . I drove an orange 57 Chevy hardtop. The shop manager was a retired MMC, and I don't remember his…"
"I put the Ranger in commission and got off in Jan. 59. I took a discharge to get off the ship. The Cap't was an aristocratic type of guy and let the XO run the ship He would promise us early liberty every friday if the zone insp. was ok. Needless to…"
"Was on the Tico from 55 to 56. I left just after we went into the yard for angle deck conversion. My first ship and first cruise. (9 mo. to the Med.) Left for pre-com to the Uss Ranger CVA-61 in 56. On that first cruise a Banshee missed all 12…"
"I transferred from the USS Yorktown, CVS-10 in 64 as an ABE2 to convert to electronics tech. After one year in ET A school I came out as an ET-2. I went to the USS Zelima AF-49 for one year. Making ET-1 cut that tour short so I came back to Treasure…"
"I was on the Mighty O one year from 59 to 60, just after it came back into commission. Everything was just like new. I enjoyed that year because I worked for great people. We worked our buns off but never seemed to mind it. We would go to sea on…"
"Was stationed at Lakehurst when the test facility was called NATF, (Naval Air Test Facility) I was an ABE2 working on the C-13 and C-14 catapults. My tour was from 1960 to 1962. Pax River was down for runway work so we carried the whole load and…"
