This was during a westpac trip either in '67 or '69. Somewhere between Pearl Harbor and Yokosuka Japan. USS Cusk SS 348



I had 16 years of sea duty and 5 ashore. We often had some of your communications people along for the ride doing "research".

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Howdy, Shipmate!

22 years active duty, 12 days at sea...

At one point in the early 70's as 'Nam was winding down, there was a big move to convert some of us CT's to OS. Some got converted involuntarily. I declined the opportunity...

I had breakfast today with a master chief, communications was his deal. Stationed in Maine. Never stepped on a boat his whole stint. He said they closed his station down when satellites were able to do what they were doing.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
How can an 18 year old have more fun than that?

Spend Christmas at Great Mistakes? I did mine 39 years ago.

TAD- Traveling Around Drunk.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Howdy, Shipmate!

22 years active duty, 12 days at sea...

At one point in the early 70's as 'Nam was winding down, there was a big move to convert some of us CT's to OS. Some got converted involuntarily. I declined the opportunity...

I had breakfast today with a master chief, communications was his deal. Stationed in Maine. Never stepped on a boat his whole stint. He said they closed his station down when satellites were able to do what they were doing.

Was he at Cutler or Winter Harbor? If Winter Harbor, chances are I know him.

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
This was during a westpac trip either in '67 or '69. Somewhere between Pearl Harbor and Yokosuka Japan. USS Cusk SS 348



I had 16 years of sea duty and 5 ashore. We often had some of your communications people along for the ride doing "research".

Good friend of mine, Tommy Ippolito, rode the boats for most of his career.

i was 4yrs old you old farts lol

if you don't mind another significant '50 years ago this month'....my #1 son was born!!!!

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if you don't mind another significant '50 years ago this month'....my #1 son was born!!!!

Yup, that'll do it too!

50 years ago I was an E6 electronics tech maintaining the TACAN at Naval Air Station Cubi Point in the Philippines. My younger brother was an E3 hospital corpsman a couple miles away at the Subic naval station dispensary. IIRC it was warm. I retired as a Lieutenant in 1986.

30 years for me. First week of Jan in '89 I reported to Great Lakes.
I just missed forming up a company (and uniform issue) and had to wear my civilian clothes for 4 or 5 days. I was from FL so my "warm clothes" (jeans, t-shirt and a windbreaker, with a pair of dock siders-no socks). didn't quite cut it shoveling sidewalks all damn day waiting for enough fellow future squids to form up a recruit company.

After 4 years of sea duty I decided I liked driving ships more than doing paperwork so I went to the dark side as a civilian mariner in the USMM. Now I'm back running my very own haze gray non-combatant, doing crap-tons of paperwork, and trying to train SWO's how to chew gum and walk at the same time.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

I had breakfast today with a master chief, communications was his deal. Stationed in Maine. Never stepped on a boat his whole stint. He said they closed his station down when satellites were able to do what they were doing.

Was he at Cutler or Winter Harbor? If Winter Harbor, chances are I know him.

I believe Winter Harbor (name had harbor in it). He rides one of them power wheelchairs now. I don't know why he rides it. I don't ask. Bob Stanley is his name. He was Air Force for one stint before becoming Navy.

Did Great Lakes in Sept 1968.
Was the last Company(527) to utilize the wooden barracks. It was cold in there.
Cut orders to Sub Tenders.
Once had a boomer tied to us. Impressive.

Forty three years ago...got there in January. I remember one time my cover blowing off, it rolled and skipped halfway down the street! Oh yeah, I found every patch of slick ice. Seeing my feet even with the horizon as I fell. Never got the hang of walking on ice!

Went to "C" school there as a 19 year old 3rd class. Eighteen weeks of CCTV school. More like eighteen weeks of transistor theory.
Back to Great Lakes 3 years later for 9 weeks of gyrocompass school.
After six years of being in I got out as a 1st class ICman. Why did I get out? I was in a sea-going rate and had a family.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

I believe Winter Harbor (name had harbor in it). He rides one of them power wheelchairs now. I don't know why he rides it. I don't ask. Bob Stanley is his name. He was Air Force for one stint before becoming Navy.

Nope, not a name that rings a bell. If you get a chance (and care...) ask him if it was Winter Harbor, and if so, when.

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Originally posted by C L Wilkins:
After six years of being in I got out as a 1st class ICman. Why did I get out? I was in a sea-going rate and had a family.

E-6 in six...you had all yer shit in one sock, shipmate!

I hear ya about sea duty and family. If my initial enlistment had been at sea, I doubt I would have stayed.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
...Standing in the chow line at oh-dark-thirty on the shores of Lake Michigan in February. How can an 18 year old have more fun than that?

Well, just six months before that date I was celebrating my first KP duty at Fort Dix by peeling and dicing 160 lbs. of onions for the breakfast crowd.
“Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end....”

50 years ago this month I was assigned to the 49th. FIS in Griffiss AFB in Rome, NY working on F-106s.

9 months later, I shipped out to Vietnam. At least it was warmer there!

I'm 10 behind you. I arrived in RTC San Diego in September 79. I was in Kakis at the same time as you. I made chief in 89 while instructing at Great Lakes. I got stuck there 3 times and still did 4 ships. Thank you for your service!

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Originally posted by Tommydogg:
I'm 10 behind you. I arrived in RTC San Diego in September 79. I was in Kakis at the same time as you. I made chief in 89 while instructing at Great Lakes. I got stuck there 3 times and still did 4 ships. Thank you for your service!

I put on the hat while instructing at NTTC Pensacola. One of the major tickets to get punched for Chief.

I made 3rd class in "A" school (IPO - Instant Petty Officer) and stayed that way for 6 years. Single, plenty of money for beer and cigarettes, having a ball, no particular motivation to move up.

Got married in 1974, inherited a wife, 3 kids, a car payment and a house payment, but I planned to get out so STILL not especially motivated.

Then I looked at job opportunities in the area on the "outside". Hmmmmmmm.

Reenlisted for orders back to Japan, took the test before I left Maine. Sewed on 2nd Class right after I arrived in Misawa in February 1976, sewed on 1st just before I left in November 1978, got selected for Chief off the first test in 1981.

Thanks for your service. In August 1968 I arrived at Fort Bliss Texas for basic training. Can't believe its been that long.