Thursday, June 19, 2025

40 years ago today, I would do it all over again in a heart beat...










 

17 comments:

  1. 32 years ago for me, but I was on a boat, nuke EM

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    1. I went to school in New London for over a month, it just wasn't what I wanted. In my opinion you bubble heads had giant brass balls...

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  2. Yeah, there's nothing like slipping beneath the waves hearing the hull creak as it's being squeezed like a beer can, knowing it was welded together by some pot smoking Mook in the shipyard.
    Good times...

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  3. 35 years for me. Nuke ET on fast attack.
    The further away from EAOS, the better it was.

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  4. 50 years ago, DDG, GMM.

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  5. 40 years ago. MarDet USS America.

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  6. 49 for me. EM on LSD34... it isn't it, but looks A LOT like that ship depicted in #2.

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    1. ... or I should say, looked. lol

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    2. Mine was an LPD converted to a command ship AGF.

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    3. I saw your class in Little Creek before they sent me over to Italy, big mothers...

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    4. 1980 to 2001 on submarines. Retired and went to work at PHNSY fixing those fucking things

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  7. Never stationed on a ship as ships company being EOD however, deployed mostly on gator freighters, LHA-5 Gulf 1, LPDs-7,9, &10. The Juneau was the most enormous pile of shit in the fleet.

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  8. I got out 34 years ago next march. AX, ship's company on CV 67, airwing on CV 59.
    --Tennessee Budd

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  9. 43 Years ago, MM1 3MMR Big John, CV-67.

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  10. Got out 35 years ago. 83-90 HSL-37 Frigates & Destroyers. Fun little flying rock the SH2F Seasprite. Great times west pack 85-86

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  11. I started out in 1986 on LSD-38 the Pensacola, SBU-20 then into Coastal warfare. BMCS Jeff C in NC

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  12. Didn't realize so many of my brother squids stopped by...

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