Thanks for your service.
Ex Navy Cryptologist. Was aboard the USS Midway CV-41 and USS Leftwich DDG-984.
Fun times.

• 5 years ago

Thanks for your service.
Ex Navy Cryptologist. Was aboard the USS Midway CV-41 and USS Leftwich DDG-984.
Fun times.

• 5 years ago

SENT YOU MESSAGE.. Navy Aerographer 1973-1979..FWC Guam and FNWC plankowner, Monterrey. 221/2 years, retired as LCDR, AMDO (Aviation Maintenance Officer)

• 5 years ago

NAVY Veteran - 1967-1971. USS Kitty Hawk CVA-63, Navy Class 'A' School Aerographers Mate, Lakehurst NJ, FNWC, Monterey CA.

I'm a Navy Veteran as well, QM1(SW) retired! Served onboard USS Tarawa (LHA-1) 1980 -1981, VP-56 1981-1982, USS Guitarro (SSN-665), USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51) 1990 - 1995, USS Mahan (DDG-72) 1998 - 2003. Shore Duty commands at Pentagon Navy Command Center - 1995- 1998, and USNA Annapolis - 2003-2006.

• 4 years ago

HI...our years match...was Great Lakes for Boot Camp, then Newport for QM 'A' School. 13 months in Adak, Alaska working in SAR Ops with Ads, then the remainder of my enlistment aboard USS Hancock (CVA 19) for two WestPacs/Yankee Station. Used to sunbathe on a former gun deck on the 010 level but never naked there. That didn't happen until my first year after discharge, when my ex and I visited our first nudist camp with friends. From the moment I felt the breeze all over my naked body, I was sold, and have enjoyed being a nudist ever since.

• 4 years ago

AOAN 95-98 USS John F Kennedy

• 4 years ago

When I was at FNWC, started training on the Control Data computers, running programs for Climatology and others. at the end of my time there, I was working nights running programs for Oceanography. Fond memories of my time there. : )

• 4 years ago

I only spent 9 months on the USS Kitty Hawk, in 1968, after Boot training at Great Lakes. I applied for Weather school in Lakehurst NY and was accepted. From there I was sent to Fleet Numerical Weather Center in Monterey California.

• 4 years ago

I was in the Navy as well. 1970-1975 aboard the USS Long Beach. Nuclear power electrical operator and interior communications electrician.

• 4 years ago

I just became a shellback less than 2 years ago. I was in 7th Fleet AOR. We did it twice while I was out there. It is definitely not the same from the stories I heard from older Sailors. We keep the camaraderie alive, but everything has been watered down. 80 percent of the things they did in the old Navy would be consider hazing now-a-days. One older Sailor told me the story of how they all just got naked afterwards and threw their clothes overboard and washed off all of the grime on the flight deck instead of going to their berthing. That could never happen in today's Navy. We can't even walk around naked in our berthing now. hahaha The guy telling the story was also on an all-male ship too.

• 4 years ago