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Thread: Photos from my enlistment on Independence Day forty years ago. July 4, 1974

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    thank you all that have served and are currently serving.

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    and to those before us, Fair winds and following seas

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    Thanks for sharing some of your history.
    and Thank you for your service.
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    I was out of the Navy when you enlisted. The memories are lifelong, aren't they....
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    With all of the OLD salts here we could start a page of "SEA STORIES" and share silly memories.

    Well at least silly to us NOW.
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    Joined April 1 96 and reported to "Great Mistakes" Illinois. Honorably discharged April 1 01. Thank you for your service.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bad Water Bill View Post
    With all of the OLD salts here we could start a page of "SEA STORIES" and share silly memories.

    Well at least silly to us NOW.
    hehe I can think of a few ..

    Boogie Street in Singapore

    Humpty Dumpty in Naples
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    Quote Originally Posted by HollandNut View Post
    hehe I can think of a few ..

    Boogie Street in Singapore
    Boogie Street was no more in 1992. The intersection was there, but no party!

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    I was a Nuclear MM on the California, CGN-36, from Jan 78 to Jun 80 and I am quite familiar with the profile of the Nimitz. We followed it around for two Med Cruises and one trip to the Persian Gulf after the Iranians decided to "borrow" our embassy and personnel. I loved going up on the signal bridge, without invite of course, to watch night time flight operations on the big "bird farm". The pilots who land on a carrier at night are either the bravest folks in the world or the dumbest.

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    Good story BrassMagnet! I enlisted five years earlier and served just three years. Looks like the Navy done you good.
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    THANKS for your service and you are right, AMERICA is a good movie!!
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    It was fun to look at the pictures. Thank you for your service!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrassMagnet View Post
    I had to go out and watch Dinesh D'Souza's America today. After working all night Wednesday, I was too tired to go on Thursday.

    I took the opportunity to indoctrinate one of our younger members. I took Cag40Navy to the movie. America is a great movie. Do take your family.
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    "America is a great movie. Do take your family.

    It is my intention to take the family. Liberals/socialists just hate him and his movies. The truth hurts.
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    THANKS for your service and you are right, AMERICA is a good movie!!
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    I rented and watched "America" tonight. Excellent movie. If you haven't seen it, look for it. It'll give your optimism in America a boost.
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    Ron,
    Should have guessed you were a fellow sailor. ATR2 1966-1971. VW-1 and VAQ-132(aboard CVA-66 USS America).
    Fair winds and following seas brother.

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    Quote Originally Posted by retread View Post
    Ron,
    Should have guessed you were a fellow sailor. ATR2 1966-1971. VW-1 and VAQ-132(aboard CVA-66 USS America).
    Fair winds and following seas brother.

    Jay
    Was this one of the clues:

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    Congrats on your service. I enlisted in the AF five days after you enlisted in the Navy. I also "retired" in 96, but took a job as a defense contractor, so I haven't stopped "serving" yet.

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    Thank You for your service.

    Just another OLD sailor and AE2.

    1956-1959 VA 86 aboard the Randu Can Du for her last cruise as a CVA then onto the Independence for her first trip to Gitmo.

    Repaired most everything from the Gutless Cutlass (F7U-3M) till they gave us the A4D-2 to take to the Med and see if they were worthy of carrying the wording NAVY on her side.

    She did indeed deserve that honor for more than 20 years.

    Glad to see you never got caught at anything.

    Those GOLD stripes sure look good on you.
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    Thank you for your sacrifice and service.
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    Hear--Hear--
    Thank you Sir,

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    It would be easy to call you a 'Jeep', since I RETIRED from the USAF in '74 after 20 years, plus another 6 mos in Texas ANG before.
    But I won't - thank you for your service, glad you never got caught - me too (GCM w/2 knots, for enlisted time - after commissioning, Officers are SUPPOSED to be Good, so no GCM for them).
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    Quote Originally Posted by BrassMagnet View Post
    These photos are from my enlistment on July 4, 1974, Independence Day
    Quote Originally Posted by shooterbob View Post
    My older brother also enlisted in the same year
    Quote Originally Posted by HollandNut View Post
    enlisted a few months after you and retired in 94 as well
    Quote Originally Posted by scarry scarney View Post
    Congrats on your service. I enlisted in the AF five days after you enlisted in the Navy. I also "retired" in 96,
    Looks like 74 was a good year. I went in the Army in June 74 and retired in 94. Sometimes I miss those days, but most of the time I am glad to have left things in the capable hands of those who followed. To those who served I salute you.

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