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"WELCOME ABOARD SHIPMATE......LONG TIME NO SEE.....HOW ARE YOU.....STILL IN SAN DIEGO?"
"TERRY,
MY E-MAIL IS: JIMSCHAFF@BRESNAN.NET.
DROP ME A LINE THERE. HAVE YOU EVER COME ACROSS MIKE SUMMY?"
MY E-MAIL IS: JIMSCHAFF@BRESNAN.NET.
DROP ME A LINE THERE. HAVE YOU EVER COME ACROSS MIKE SUMMY?"
"WELCOME ABOARD, I WAS ON THE ORION , REPORTED AUG 74. DONNIE TIBBS, GREG BROUSARD, BUTCH BEAREGARD(SP), WES CORLEY, CHIEF SAYMKEN. NOT SURE WHO ELSE WAS THERE, BOB TAYLER, POP HOLLAND AND JOE SHRODER. MADE ML2 WHILE ON BOARD, WORKED FOR ML1…"
"WELCOME ABOARD,
I ALSO SERVED ABOARD THE ORION, I BIT LATER THAN YOU DID. I WAS ABOARD FROM 74 TO 78 IN CHARLESTON, GREAT SHIP.....CATCH YA LATER. JIM COWAN MLC USN RETIRED"
I ALSO SERVED ABOARD THE ORION, I BIT LATER THAN YOU DID. I WAS ABOARD FROM 74 TO 78 IN CHARLESTON, GREAT SHIP.....CATCH YA LATER. JIM COWAN MLC USN RETIRED"
"WELCOME ABOARD SHIPMATE........YOU NEED TO SIGN UP ON US NAVY MOLDERS AND US NAVY PATTERNMAKERS. WHAT WAS THE FEMALE PM2 THAT WAS IN THE SHOP WHEN YO WERE? JIM"
"HET...WHAT'S THAT MR DOING IN THE FOUNDRY??? MRFN DUBECK"
"I MET UP WITH CAPT. WEEKS WHEN I WAS IN THE GULF, ABOARD THE DIXON. HE WAS C.O. OF THE JOUETTE. THEY NEEDED SOME BEARINGS POURED....OUR REPAIR BOSS SAID WE WERE A SUB TENDER AND DIDN'T DO BEARINGS.....CAPT. WEEKS CALLED B.S., HE SAID MLC COWAN AND…"
"WELCOME ABOARD MIKE, I WAS STATIONED ABOARD THE ORION AS-18 74 TO 78, WAS STATIONED WITH TOM KITCHEN ABOARD THE YOSEMITE AD-19 IN MAYPORT LATE 80'S, WENT TO "A" SCHOOL WITH KEITH PARIDISE. TAKE CARE..............JIM COWAN MLC USN RET"
"HEY DOUG, LONG TIME SINCE THE DIXON.............HOW HAVE YOU BEEN? DO YOU KNOW WHERE TERRY MILEY ENDED UP? I HAVE HEARD BITS AND PIECES, BUT CAN'T TRACK HER DOWN..........WELCOME ABOARD SHIPMATE.................JIM"
"WELCOME ABOARD BOB.....LONG TIME NO SEE.....I BELIEVE IT WAS IN '92 WHEN WE RELIEVED YOU ALL IN U.A.E.....JIM"
"DID THE DITCH 83-84, 86 AND 88 ABOARD THE USS YOSEMITE AD-19."
"HEY ALDO.....THE LAST I HEARD OF JERRY MALONE.....HE WAS, I BELIEVE IN NORFOLK.....HE WAS MLC AT THE TIME.....HE WAS QUITE A GUY.......HAD SOME GOOD TIMES IN "A" SCHOOL WITH HIM, HIATT, HERNANDEZ AND LOPEZ AT JERRY'S TRAILOR DOWN ON THE US - MEX…"
"TWO MORE MOLDERS I SERVED WITH AT PM/ML SCHOOL THAT I DIDN'T INCLUDE IN MY PREVIOUS LIST, MLCS KEN ALLEN AND MLC FAVOR. KEN ALLEN HAD 40 PLUS YEARS ACTIVE AND RESERVE WHEN HE RETIRED IN 92. HE HAD MORE TIME AS A ML1 THE I HAD IN THE NAVY AT THE TIME…"
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Nice pics. Did not see any of me this is ray I was on the Gompers from 77 to 80 with you Ski and applegate and I do believe Chief Callahan/.
Do you remember that Cathy and I remade the yoyo emblem? Also our pattern shop along with you molders remade the US navy plaque to look more 3D. Recieved a navy comendation for it. I have all the cruise books from that time also.
Wow, what a small world. One of the best friends I have in life is my buddy Keith Paradise, who incidently settled after his USN tours in Summerville, SC. Great guy, and between him and another molder ("TINY" ML3 Gary Deutsch from Odessa, TX) they were a "god-send" in helping me adjust to navy life when I reported on-baord the USS Sierra in '75. We had a ton of fun, poured a lot of various ferrous and non-ferrous alloys in sometimes very unconventional ways, and between the time in the USN and all the years since, have maintained pretty close friendships as friends both as individauls but also as couples, for we are all still married to the same ladies as when we served together. We still really enjoy ourselves whenever we get the chance to cross "paths".
When I was in the shop on the Gompers, we also had MLFN Ken Dilli, MLFN Art Cabrerra, ML1 Anderson, and another guy named Mike (can't remember his last name) and ML1 Juan Aguillon. I think there were 14 of us all counted.