JupiterSunsation
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Sounds like Guam, my dad was stationed there in 1970, my mom did not want a baby born there so they put in for an east coast, USA transfer.....
They got Alabama.....Did she really do any better?
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Sounds like Guam, my dad was stationed there in 1970, my mom did not want a baby born there so they put in for an east coast, USA transfer.....
They got Alabama.....Did she really do any better?
cuda
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It is Guam. Trish went there a few months ago. Her daughter is supposed to be stationed in Nebraska next. She was going to go to Afganistan, needless to say Trish is relieved she's going to Nebraska. She plans on getting a medical degree when she gets out of the service. Military service runs in her family. Her dad was stationed at Pearl Harbor for years. I told her that nobody gets stationed in Hawaii that long. Turns out her dad was in military intelligence, and probably was at Pearl the same fime my dad was stationed there. He never told mom until he saw it on 60 Minutes that he was running a picket line around Antiwtok Atoll when Uncle Sam was testing the first H-bomb. Mom said all the wives knew it, but she never said anything to dad.
Her dad retired from the Navy E-9 Cheif Petty Officer, the same as my dad. My parents have been married 57 years, hers has been married 62 years. Her dad worked for the federal government at DC until he retired from there. My dad worked for the VA until he retired again.
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cuda
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Trish was born at the same hospital as my older sister. Trippler Army Hospital. Hawaii wasn't a state when Jeannie was born. She's in London today.
03darkshadow
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i like the water. sounds like you had fun
cuda
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phragle
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I lasted a little over a year in pearl harbor... actually..there may be a reason for short duty in pearl..for the young navy guy...after 2 months you have done and seen everything on the island twice, the reality that you live on a rock sets in and all there is to do is drink heavily and hang out on sh!t street...
03darkshadow
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Last time I was in Guam, my mom was holding me in her arms for my passport!
so you werent there for the picture taking. thats not something i knew, sorry.
either way, i really like the water. :biggrinjester:
pullmytrigger
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its at the beach!......it says so in the bottom left corner
MarylandMark
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cuda
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Lex is only 20. She joined when she was 17.
phragle
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it's just stunning now because we are old... when I was 18-19 and comming from so cal..the only thing that interested me was type A activities. we got so board and drunk we stole a case of liver, a meat hook chain and nuclear submarine sized dock line, went to the end of a pier with one end tied to a truck and went fishing for jaws... we also 'appropriated' a few laws rockets from west lock and had one hell of a camping trip... it;s a wonder the locals were not fond of navy guys....
fund razor
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My Dad was stationed at Trippler for a year after he was wounded in action towards the end of the Korean war, I want to say 1951. He volunteered for the draft so he could get it over with. He recovered from a sickle wound he got doing riot duty. He was well enough that he didn't get discharged but they sent him to Hawaii as a thank you Mr. Purple Heart. had a chest muscle wound. Rehab became training 1950s style. Then he became base boxing champ during the day and his duty was sleeping with dead dudes at the dispensary at night. I have some great pics of Dad that I should scan. He came home from the army with a habit of running for fitness. He called it "road work" and wore combat boots. This was waaayyy before Nike. Cops would occasionally stop him so he started jumping the fence and running on a high school track. He is 76 and in great shape today.
cuda
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Dad was in the Korean war on a sub chaser. I asked if they ever found any subs, and he said to the best of his knowledge, they cruised up and down the beach and fired indicrimately into Korea. The subchasers were converted WWII destroyer escorts.
fund razor
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Sleeping with dead dudes didn't sound right. I was very tired. I meant, he kept watch over the bodies of occasional folks who died.
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