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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 378 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 378 | Hello to all the Vets. I served from 1969 to 1971 and was on the USS Bausell, DD-845. Did a tour in Viet-Nam as gunfire support and following the aircraft carriers around. I did see a lot of the world though. Would not trade the experience for nothin'. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 247 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 247 | Hi
I served on the USS Montrose APA 212 from 65 to 68. Made 1&1/2 tours to westpac. Mostly taking Marines from Okinawa,doing amphibious landings and being the mother ship for some of the Riveron patrol boats in Viet-Nam. I got to see lots of the world that I would not have seen otherwise. It was one of the better things that has happened to me.
Jim | | | | | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 2,074 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 2,074 | Hi, 65-69 Ping jockey/Bubblehead, loved San Diego so much they sent me East, after Sub School assigned USS Abe Lincoln SSBN 602 in Electric Boat for overhaul. Made a fabulous shake down cruise down the East coast, tested the Polaris missle then it was patrols North of Arctic Circle. Lost some friends on Scorpion in '68. Member USSVI and VFW.
Cheers
Jim | | | | | Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 378 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 378 | Thank you "Stovebolt" for remembering our Vets. Steven Carlisle USN Viet-Nam Veteran. Another reason that "Stovebolt" is the best. | | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 5,470 Bond Villain | | Bond Villain Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 5,470 | U.S. Naval Academy, Class of '87 (14th Co.)
Blue water time:
USS Nassau (LHA-4) Med Cruise, 1984
USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635), 1985
USS Wabash (AOR-5), 1986
USS New Jersey (BB-62), WestPac 1986
Deployed underway, but as USMC:
USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), Exercise Team Spirit '90
USS St. Louis (LKA-116), Exercise Valiant Blitz '91
USS Frederick (LST-1184), Various while stationed in Hawaii '95-'98
Beat Army!
John | | | | | Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 336 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 336 | Retired Navy......71 - 93
VF 101 Det Key West..72 - 75 F-4 Phantom engine mechanic
VXE 6 Point Mugu CA..75 - 79 UH-1N Helicopter mechanic/aircrew
HC 16.. 79 - 82 UH-1N Power Plant and Rotor Instructor
USS Saipan LHA2 Norfolk VA..82 - 85 Med Cruise/several short cruises
HSL 30 NAS Norfolk VA..85 - 89 Maintenance CPO
VXE 6 Point Mugu CA..89- 91 Helo Division SCPO
HSL 51 Atsugi Japan..91-93...Maintenance Control/Det SCPO
I would have stayed at least for 28 years, but Clinton and a terrible CO in HSL 51 changed my mind.
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1959 3100 Apache Fleetside
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 331 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 331 | 9 year Navy vet here - AMS1 (AW) H3's, H60's and H46's. '93-'02.
RTC Orlando
NATTC Milington
PMRF Barking Sands
HSL49 NAS North Island
NAS Pensacola (air crew school)
Corey Station (Instructor school)
HC8 NAS Norfolk
1950 4100 - unrestored and driven weekly for almost no reason at all.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 578 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 578 | USNAVSECGRU. 1966 1970.
USNA Postgrad School staff
DLIWC Presidio of Monterey
Security School Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo
NAVCOMSTA Adak AK
NSGADET Kami Seya Japan
NSAGDET Wakkanai AFB, Hokkaido JN
"Happiness equals reality minus expectations" - Tom Magliozzi
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 41 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 41 | RTC Great Lakes 1963 Co. 262
NATTC Milington 1963-1964 Airframe School AMH
RVAH-3 RA5C Vigilante Training Squadron, Sanford, FL
RVAH-13 Sea Going Squadron; USS KITTY HAWK 1965-1966, 1966-1967 Tonkin Gulf
Discharged 7/67
1959 Chevy Apache Stepside Truck
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 3 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 3 | Master Chief, US Navy, Retired (ABCM - AW/SW)
Served at:
USS Midway CV-41 1975-77
USS Constellation CV-64 1977-79
US Navy Recruiter Las Vegas, NV 1979-1983
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 1983-87
NATTC Instructor ALRE 1987-1991
Senior Enlisted Academy Newport RI 1991
USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 1991-93
USS Essex LHD-2 1993-1995 (2nd CMC and Plank-owner)
Retired aboard FTG Pacific 1996 | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Thank You to everyone for posting up. Patriotism runs in our veins...........Always! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2018 Posts: 79 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2018 Posts: 79 | Navy vet
1978-1994
West coast after boot in San Diego
USS Anchorage
Sima San Diego
USS McKee nuke tender
USS Steadfast
USS Bellawood
USS Gridley Desert Shield/Storm Watched oil fields burn
GSE School Great mistakes
USS Samual Gompers
Naval hospital Oakland
Medical retirement
Saw mostly west Pac ports but loved every minute. 😃🎩
Tophat
1950 4400
1949 3100
1946 2 ton flatbed
1949 3800 panel (newest one)
Queen Creek AZ
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 30 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 30 | Hi thanks to all for you service.
Ic2(ss)
83-85 Ssbn728 USS Florida...did psa shakedown and first 4 stagetic patrols on blue crew just missing being a plank member..now it's an ssgn..Nuclear guided tomahawk with 154 of them vrs. 24 nuclear ballistic missile
s. They now have special forces with them ..
USS Georgia ...3 more strategic patrols..also converted to ssgn.
Best thing that ever happened was a judge telling an 18 yr old punk to join the military or I will see u again and you wont like it...i never needed up in court again! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 346 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 346 | RTC San Diego, Calif. '68
VT-24 NAS Chase Field. Beeville, Texas '69-'70
USS Hancock CVA-19 Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam '71
USS Hancock CVA-19 Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam'72
Shellback May 10, 1971
Discharged 12-8-'72 Petty Officer 2nd Class
Terry K.
1951 5 window 1/2 ton
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,229 Red dot, center of chest ... | | Red dot, center of chest ... Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,229 | OT-6, Cape Hatteras, NC and Argentia, Newfoundland, CA. '68-'74 Never set foot on a ship. All shore-based Top Secret Signals Intelligence. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jul 2017 Posts: 15 | Howdy All,
USS Knox: FF-1052 1981 - 1983
USS Truxton: CGN-35 1983 - 1985
Operations Specialist 2nd Class. At 6'4", 250 lbs.... Snipes feared me, now they would just laugh.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 473 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 473 | First and foremost Tophat...thank you for your service. My old man was a Navy man...Korea...an Aviation Electrician. I was hellbent on the Navy in 1973, but at the last minute opted to enlist in the U. S. Coast Guard and never looked back. 1973-1994. Retired.
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