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03-25-22, 12:11 AM | #1 |
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How many of you were sailors?
Seems we have a lot of people on here that know intimate things about subs. Thank you for your service. My dad was a sailor in the Coast Guard on a couple icebreakers in the early 60's one was the Spencer, I have a picture of his ship in the arctic packed in the ice while they went "ashore". He was a fire controlman on the 5". One nephew was on a modern missile destroyer about 10 years ago working in the CIC.
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03-25-22, 09:47 AM | #2 | |
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03-25-22, 11:33 AM | #3 |
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Awesome! Thank you for your service! Which patrols was your dad on? I took a look on wiki, they took a bunch of depth charge damage on the third one, was he on there during that time? What ships and/or subs were you on?
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04-26-22, 10:34 AM | #4 |
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I was in 1980-89. I was surface Navy on the USS Midway.
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04-26-22, 11:26 AM | #5 |
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Awesome! Thank you for the 2? Tours. What color were you?
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04-26-22, 11:42 AM | #6 |
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this is eric von beversdorf . i was on a sub tender , 1300 sailors, chiefs, officers .we fixed parts ,supplyed subs out to sea, we also hads 2 5 inch guns ,1 forward and 1 aft. my general quarters station was a fuse setter in the forward mount. hotter than blazes when air was shut down. caned rations fromww2 were nasty . 8 hgour drills by cuba in summer .
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04-26-22, 01:15 PM | #7 |
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welcome aboard!
eric von beversdorf! Age 72!! Welcome to the Septuagenarian club! by a fellow seventies-sumpthin'
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04-26-22, 06:25 PM | #8 |
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To all, who have served... no matter what branch... Thanks... from a Reg. Army grunt.
M. M.
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04-26-22, 06:50 PM | #9 |
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U.S. Navy 1971-1981
Rate was Electrician's Mate U.S.S. Lawrence DDG-4 for 4 years U.S.S. Hunley AS-31 (sub-tender) for 1 year Shore Duty and training intermixed between and after sea duty assignments
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04-27-22, 01:47 AM | #10 |
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My time is in my sig.
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04-29-22, 10:15 AM | #14 |
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I was a Ground Pounder with the 82nd AirBorne.
Once kicked out of a perfectly good aircraft? We were transported by LPC's to our assigned AO's. Crazy that I enjoy messing with Silent Hunter versions don't ya think? LPC = Leather Personnel Carriers AKA BOOTS!
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