While researching survivor benenfits for my Mother-in-Law, I found this link which I have found to be very accurate! A way to remember those that have gone...
Found this one at NAVSOURCE photo files. It says a date of "November 79". But that was late in the Med Cruise. Why would the decks be empty before a flyoff?...
Yes, Carl, It was the 2nd or 3rd week in december, I was home for Christmas. Tom P. ... From: Carl Mottern To: ussindependencecva62-1@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
I knew it was close Tom, as Ronnie and I made it home for Christmas as well. I graduated from VP-30 on I think that same day the birds got back to Jax. We...
Carl, It's me. Barry! I can remember coming back from my last Med cruise on the America. The CO wanted all the BIRDS to fly off at the same time. There was...
Looking in my 79 cruisebook made me think it's high time for a rebroadcast of my one and only poetic attempt since I was forced to do poetry in grade school....
I never heard that story Barry! Good job sticking to your ground. If you'd been aboard for that INDY cruise, you would have came back that night as well. You...
Those were the good old days. I sometimes wish that I could have stayed in HS-15. I spent the next 3 years in VT-26 in Beeville,Tx traning the next set of...
Barry, you're getting to me now Buddy! I remember dropping you off on that transiet line at Rosey Roads. We had to yell our goodbyes over the helo noise....
U-boats of 30th Flotilla scuttled off the coast of Turkey Sept 1944. U-19- Ordered 2 Feb 1935. Laid down 20 Jul 1935 Germaniawerft, Kiel. Launched 21 Dec 1935....
Navy Railgun Test Sets Record Virginian-Pilot | February 01, 2008 Science got one step closer to science fiction Thursday morning, when the Navy used an...
THE BEST COMEBACK LINE EVER! Marine Corps General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio the other day and you'll love his reply to the lady who interviewed him...
Yep, welcome all new members!! Yall jump right in and post!! Just stopped in to Dianna's office to pay some bills and read the posts. Yall keep up the good...
... Letter from one "Angry Woman" I don't know who wrote it they should have signed it. Some powerful words. This woman should run for president. !!!!!!!! ...
Hi folks, I just wanted to report on my experience of breaking the coffee, (Real coffee that is), habit. After about 12 or 13 heart attacks in the last 20...
Wow, good luck Sam. Is there something available (like the patch for smokers) that can wean you off of it? I never could take caffeine, my heart feels like it...
Well shipmate it is like this... Caffiene is the same as any other substance the body has become dependent on... It has to revert back to its "before life"....
And no we didnt have any "gals" on board when I was there.. If we did it would have made that 77 Med Cruise a whole lot more FUN!! ... From: samcroy...
Indeed the Navy runs on coffee and as such the big coffee urn in the 5th Division gun shop always had coffee at the ready. I had the last "dog" Battery...
man, I am so glad I never picked up any bad habits or the need for caffeine in the AM! My dad (even though I'm 46) STILL asks me all the time how I can...
... <ase2croy@...> wrote: Well, I can't imagine having to give up all those things, I'm only 66 and still do whatever I want. I still snow ski mostly cross...
I should have mentioned that I don't smoke anymore either, but enjoy three cups of high test coffee everymorning. I can't imagine getting going without that...
Thats quite a list of shit you've given up there Sam. Sorry to hear all that........I dont want to comment any further, and you'll never read when any of that...
