My husband was on the uss Talbot County on LST 1153. He was also involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. He would like to get together with like members.

WOW! I've been out of the Navy for almost 35yrs, and looking at most of these dates, it makes me feel like I just left?! :) '82-'86. An old tin can out of Mayport(Jax), which they're trying to make a museum, and put in St John's river.

Was on the Aircraft Carrier USS Hancock CVA 19 from 1972-1975 (W Division). Made two Westpac cruises during the Vietnam war. Worked on nuclear weapons. To all that have thanked me for my service, you are very welcome! Glad to help everyone in the USA be free.

US Navy
 

1968 - 1972, two west pak tours as an aviation fire control technician on the USS Ranger and the USS Enterprise. Home base was NAS Whidbey Island, Washington State.

USN 1967 thru1972
USS Annapolis AGMR-1 : Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Mauritius, Angola, Senegal, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece
US ComSta Argentia, Newfoundland.
USS Tringa ASR-16 :Key West, Portugal, Spain, Majorca, France, Monaco, Italy, Greece, Crete, Sardinia, Madera.

Thanks, NAVY, for allowing me to experience so much of the world, it's scenery and it's cultures. "Thanks for my service"? Believe me, it was my pleasure and my honor!

WestPac
 

I sense “Visions of Olongapo” circulating in many of your brains.:icon_wink:

COMDESDIV32, Yokosuka, Japan, Oct 68-Jul 69, but rode many different types of ships, USS New Jersey to destroyer escorts. Base ship was USS Waddell, DDG-24

Navy Vets
 

Hubby was on the USS Hornet in 68/69 in Vietnam.

Haven't seen any Seabees yet.
USNMCB 74....79-81 active, Gulfport-Atsugi / Misawa Japan...Rota Spain...81-83 reserves
Best time of my life and would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
I thank everyone that served, and all who still are.
Steve

US Navy - 1968-1972 - Fire Control Technician
USS Wasp (CVS-18) Aircraft Carrier out of Quonset Point, Rhode Island
3 North Atlantic / European and 2 Mediterranean cruises.
- "Blue Nose" from chasing Russian Subs into the Arctic -
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..... Pictured below back in 1970 - 50 Years ago!
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OLONGAPO !!!!!
Oh, yeah...….Jeepneys, monkeymeat on a stick, kids diving for quarters in that thing they called a river......pickpockets, and other great things.

Oh, and the 5 cent slot machines on Grande Island.

Olongapo!
 

Green San Miguel! Food off the ... wagons. And, ah, oh, lot of other stuff also. I think you know.

Navy vet's living in the Villages
 

I was in 66/70. After radiomen school and electronics school I boarded the USS Fiske DD-842. Spent the rest of my hitch touring the world. Ended up in Nam bring the USS Forestal back home from her big fire.

I was 19 years old and stationed at Cubi Point. It was like being a kid in a candy store.. lol

USS Coral Sea 1973-1977 MM2 , 2 westpac's, Worked in engine room #1 on first tour, 1 year in Long Beach dry dock, worked in AC&R division on second tour, Discharged out of Yokosuka Japan Sept. 1977, credit my whole career with what I learned in those 4 years and the GI Bill for college. GO NAVY!!!

Home of the Free because of the brave. Thank you all for your service. You are what makes me proud to be American, not this crap that is going on today!!

USN 1968-1972. Served at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington, then on board the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) on a Wespac Cruise, and finished up at Naval Station Newport, RI on the staff at the Naval Destroyer School. My very first liberty port outside the USA on the Westpac cruise was Subic Bay/Olongapo City, Luzon of the Philippines. To this 19 year old sailor, it was way better than Disneyland. I loved my service in the Navy, and to this day it was the best experience of my life.

I did TAD on the Saratoga and the FDR back in 71. Also served on the Independence, Forrestal, Seattle, and two years in Rota Spain as a Communications Tech. Longest tour on a ship was the Kitty Hawk at the end of the Viet Nam war. Was onboard too when they had the famous race riot in October 1972.

Race riot at sea — 1972 Kitty Hawk incident fueled fleet-wide unrest

Ohhh yeah, I remember it very well. That river you had to cross to get into town was crazy!

USN 1965-69 USS Greenwich Bay, Middle East cruise; radarman Class A school 1966; 1967-July 1969 Swift Boats Vietnam, Qui Nhon & Cat Lo . Brown Water River Rat

Spent 6 years in. Navy Nuke ELT 1980-1986. Initial manning on USS Henry M. Jackson SSBN 730 (Plankowner), last 18 months on the USS Georgia SSBN 729.

USNR 62-66, Naval Station Philadelphia , NAVCOMSTA San Juan, YN2

Thank you for your support of our Arm Forces.

Hello Fellow Shipmates, :bigbow:
USS America CVA-66, 1980 - 1983. Norfolk, VA. Mess Management (Cook).
I just wanted to let all my fellow shipmates know about an organization called Honor Flight. Villages Honor Flight Main Page It is a great organization that sends veterans to Washington D.C. to see all the military memorials at no cost to you. You can go to the website that I posted and fill out an application or call about it.

I know what you mean, I too was E-4 BM 4 years 1 month.:ho:

Sorry to hear that, being part of a crew aboard a ship is one of the greatest moments being in the navy.

Hi! Not a Navy guy but a Navy Nurse 1961-1965. Naval Officers Indoctrination Newport R.I. 1961. St Albans Naval Hospital, Long Island NY 1961-1963. US Naval Hospital, Quantico, Va. 1963-1965
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Howdy Sailor.
 

You don't have to be a "guy" (gender specific) to be "one of the guys" (gender neutral/generic).
Welcome aboard, sailor. Thanks for your service.

Glad you made it back.
 

Have a friend who was in the Brown Water NAVY. When we would get together to swap stories, mine were mostly fun little tales, while his were real horror stories. Glad you made it home.

Radioman....1957 - 1963

OPNAV Communications (Pentagon)

Navcomsta Adak Alaska

Thank you for your service. The link you posted was very interesting, Lottoguy. Detailed reports provide a glimpse into the events as they unfolded & make it a lot more relevant to those of us who weren’t there. It’s so important for us to learn more about our history. Living in such a confined space sounds very challenging in and of itself but having to live trapped with the brutal unrest of mob rioters must have been truly terrifying. I never would have known. Thank you.

Thank you all for serving our country. You make me feel proud and lucky to be an American. All of you who are veterans (along with our active duty armed service members) are our shining stars.

My family has had many service members and two who didn’t return home alive. One of my uncles was serving as a Navy airplane metal smith in the Aleutian Islands (off of Alaska) when he was killed by the Japanese. Another uncle was killed while serving in the army in North Korea. They died far too young. I feel especially proud of them every Veterans Day, Memorial Day & of course on the 4th. I never forget to do something in honor of them each holiday because they sacrificed everything for me/us.

Because you also sacrificed and risked everything to protect America, I am humbled & grateful to you. Thank you.

Not a guy either, but I served from 1981 to 1993: Recruit Training Command, Orlando (1981); NAS Meridian, MS (1981); Naval Justice School (1982); Naval Legal Service Office, San Diego, CA - 32nd St and Coronado Island (1982 - 1985); Naval Legal Service Office, Yokosuka, Japan (1985-1988); Staff JA Office, CNTECHTRA, NAS Millington, TN (1988-1992); USNR duty in Millington (1992-1993). The best times of my life.

I never served but have had the high honor of serving those who have served spending the last 20 of my now 42 year nursing career working for the VA as a Primary Care R.N. Case Manager.

My dear late father was career Navy and served from 1940-65 and retired with the rank of BMC. His last duty was that of skipper of the Admiral's barge at the Newport, R.I. Naval Base where I was born in the hospital on that base. During that duty my also now late mother was quite ill and hospitalized frequently resulting often in no babysitter for me as I was not in school yet. The very kind Admiral who very much liked my father allowed him to bring me to work with him on the barge in these emergency situations. When I had to go to work with Daddy I had a special little sailor dress and matching hat to wear. With that dress along with my curly mop of hair I looked very much like Shirley Temple which the Admiral I was told got a real kick out of having me onboard his barge.

My late father so loved the Navy, and he said many times throughout his adult life he was not sure what would have happened to him as a poor farm kid during the Great Depression had he not joined the Navy. In addition to the Navy providing my father a meaningful career, it allowed him to escape the poverty of his childhood and provide his own family a much better life than his parents were able to provide their family.

Anyway, hubby who is a disabled Army Vet and me still working are still unsure if we will relocate when I retire. We have a TV lifestyle visit booked for August to check out this community as a retirement location option and we will see what happens.

Great place for a couple like you
 

Make sure you tour the Eisenhower rec center. My military academy graduation chair will go there if my kids don't want it. Non military, merchant mariner

sportsguy

Rm2
 

US NTC/Radioman "A" School 1969-1970
Navcomsta Norfolk (Receiver site Northwest) 1970-71
Navcomsta Morocco 1971-72
USS Luiseno ATF 156 1972-73
US Navy Recruiting Command, Recruiting Station Holyoke MA 1973-1977

I’m not a guy I’m a girl. Went to bootcamp in Orlando Jan/81. Went to storekeeper school in meridian Mississippi. Stationed a long time in Europe. Best time of my life. I love my country. Thank you, Natalie DeStefano

USS Dyess, DD 880, Brooklyn NY 1975-1979, FTG2

USS Kitty Hawk, CV 63

USS Shreveport - LPD-12 in the 70's. Radioman 2nd Class when I got out. Good to see quite a few others of the Radioman rating here!

An LPD-class ship was (and is) an "amphibious transport dock". Our primary mission was to carry Marines to a battlefield area, as well as the landing craft needed. I was stationed out of Norfolk, VA, and did a 6-month "Med" (Mediterranean) cruise, as well as several cruises to the Caribbean and North Atlantic. There is an island off of Puerto Rico known as Vieques that was used at the time for battle exercises, so we made a few trips there. My ship was a task group flagship. It had an additional bridge for the flag officer.

My ship has been decommissioned, and is sitting in a shipyard in Philadelphia waiting to be scrapped. But there is a newer class of LPD handling missions like mine did. The USS New York (LPD-21) is one.

One of the things I'm grateful for is that military service necessarily brought one into direct contact with people from all over the country. All races, all religions, etc.