At the Branson International Rally we had the opportunity to attend several shows and, without exception, each recognized our Veterans. I was amazed at the number of Veterans we have in our Beaver Ambassador Club who stood and were recognized. Let me add our thanks for your service. As Donna and I are Air Force Retirees, we appreciate your sacrifices.
We have come across a Web Site dedicated to helping Veterans find other service members known or stationed with and wanted to share it with you. We have used it for two years without any downside, no SPAM or unwanted emails, etc.
It has a very powerful search engine where you can find members by name, rank, skill, location, etc. A special feature allows one to list assignments, units, duty locations and it searches through the hundreds of thousands members, and when there are others that were there, it lists those members for your option to make contact. You are also allowed to identify your service accomplishments, schools, awards and decorations, photographs, and/or associated professional organizations.
The Web Site is divided into each Branch of Service and spans all wars. Donna and I have found fellow service members we were stations with in 1975 at an Air Force Station in Taiwan. As I said, very powerful and while we don't have a dog in this hunt, we enjoy sharing it with other Veterans and hope you might be able to find an old buddy to share memories.
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Hello Chuck and Donna, My old submarine friends would chuckle at your "Happy Hunting" .I served in the Royal Navy Submarine Service from 1964 to 1976 ,right through the Cold War,in diesel boats .Operating in the North Atlantic,The Eastern Mediterranean,Black Sea, and the Pacific as a PO UCI my speciality was sonar. My wife Jane is a retired LTC US Army Med.Corps. We are both very proud to have had the oportunity to serve our countries. Jeremy and Jane Parrett
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Hello Chuck and Donna, My old submarine friends would chuckle at your "Happy Hunting" .I served in the Royal Navy Submarine Service from 1964 to 1976 ,right through the Cold War,in diesel boats .Operating in the North Atlantic,The Eastern Mediterranean,Black Sea, and the Pacific as a PO UCI my speciality was sonar. My wife Jane is a retired LTC US Army Med.Corps. We are both very proud to have had the oportunity to serve our countries. Jeremy and Jane Parrett
Ahhhh, Diesel Boats forever!!!! Did you ever see any Grayback class Regulus missile boats while you were floating around in the Pacific??? Hell of an experience....90 days submerged on a diesel was......interesting.
Hello Chuck and Donna, My old submarine friends would chuckle at your "Happy Hunting" .I served in the Royal Navy Submarine Service from 1964 to 1976 ,right through the Cold War,in diesel boats .Operating in the North Atlantic,The Eastern Mediterranean,Black Sea, and the Pacific as a PO UCI my speciality was sonar. My wife Jane is a retired LTC US Army Med.Corps. We are both very proud to have had the oportunity to serve our countries. Jeremy and Jane Parrett
You have the backgrounds that really makes this Web service interesting. Albeit, we're Air Force and have our own facinating history - yours is from what books are made, and honestly, there are others who would love to meet with you and compare notes over careers. That is the beauty of "Together We Served." So, for those reasons - I'd recommend you check it out (I don't know if they have a spot for Foreign services. By the way, I love subs and their history.
I never spent time on or in the water, I liked the feel of air under my wings 8 years VR-51 and 4000 hours in the C-118 a great bird. I agree that it was a great time to serve my country USNR 65-73 GO NAVY!
I had fun pretending to catch diesel submarines from the air in a P-3. Another of our members that posts here did that too, but is now actively involved in creating the replacement, called the P-8. It is basically a 737 re-configured to do both surveillance and attack. If he tells us much about it, they have to shoot him.
I had fun pretending to catch diesel submarines from the air in a P-3. Another of our members that posts here did that too, but is now actively involved in creating the replacement, called the P-8. It is basically a 737 re-configured to do both surveillance and attack. If he tells us much about it, they have to shoot him.
Yeh, we were on the other end of the stick so to speak. On the return leg from Adak to Hawaii, we would also get caught up in P-3 training excersizes for the duration of the trip. Of course the P-3 had an advantage as they know our course, speed, departure time, an etc. Plus, after a 3-4 month patrol we were always in a hurry to get home. 50/50 if we got caught or not.....still, it added some spice to the trip. Wow, sure brings back memories.
Yeh, we were on the other end of the stick so to speak. On the return leg from Adak to Hawaii, we would also get caught up in P-3 training excersizes for the duration of the trip. Of course the P-3 had an advantage as they know our course, speed, departure time, an etc. Plus, after a 3-4 month patrol we were always in a hurry to get home. 50/50 if we got caught or not.....still, it added some spice to the trip. Wow, sure brings back memories.
We used to fly from our base in Hawaii to Adak once a year for "training". We always stopped somewhere to fill the empty torpedo bay with enough frozen crab for the annual feasts. The torpedo bay was outside the cabin environment so it stayed cold at altitude for the trip home. We could not descend to chase subs on the trip home because even the Admirals crab would thaw.
They never told us your course and speed. We had to drop buoys and figure it out after we were given a general area. The buoys cost between a few and several thousand dollars each and were not recoverable.
I had fun pretending to catch diesel submarines from the air in a P-3. Another of our members that posts here did that too, but is now actively involved in creating the replacement, called the P-8. It is basically a 737 re-configured to do both surveillance and attack. If he tells us much about it, they have to shoot him.
So I'm being conspicuously silent and not telling you about it. Ah to be back in the days of 14 hour missions ...
The deal was that we were never issued torpedoes for our torpedo bay. It could hold four big nuclear ones. Since it was always empty, somebody in the squadron welded up steel racks with plywood floors that fit the clips intended to hold the torpedoes. I don't recall anyone like the FAA or Naval egineering approving the design. I don't know the background, but the preference in Hawaii was for King and Snow crab that you could buy frozen in 40 or 50 pound boxes. Maybe it was that they fit the "luggage" rack well. Don't know why we didn't try for salmon. Maybe someone else got to go during Copper River season.
Then there was the time we found a junior navigator that needed a long cross country training flight. We took a P-3 to an AFB near a Colorado ski resort for the weekend.
Do you remember when the McChord reserve crew got busted in the press for having their training schedule dove tale with Sonics games? They even hauled an AF van in the C-141 for ground transportation.
And then there was the Florida A-4 squadron with custom stainless drop tanks to import bulk Rum from Puerto Rico.
I almost forgot the Piano. If you were deployed for 6 months and a day you got a 1,000 pound air freight baggage allowance provided by the Air Force. I kept my gear in a couple parachute bags and hauled them in the P-3 so I didn't have much to give them. One day I saw a 700 pound Yamaha piano at the Navy Exchange. It was crated and flown from Okinawa to Hawaii for me as personal baggage. My granddaughters have it now.
I remember the A4 jocks and the rum as they flew out of NAS Whidbey, I was also part of that group but we used radio cans with seals, I actually made a little cash hauling wine from the Azores, we would clear at Loring AFB and never had a problem(they did look for drugs)
I never spent time on or in the water, I liked the feel of air under my wings 8 years VR-51 and 4000 hours in the C-118 a great bird. I agree that it was a great time to serve my country USNR 65-73 GO NAVY!
i was vr21 62 and 63 logged 1175 hrs they were good times dave blystone patriot 33 2001
In the 80's we were tdy to Turkey alot. I buddied up with a supply guy and we commandeered the empty spaces in the mobility bins on the return trip for carpets and pistachio nuts. When we went to the first Gulf, we packed the spare space with things to make life a little more comfortable or to make things that would. VCRs, games, nails, screws, brackets and such came in real handy. As did the ability to hotwire backhoes to dig shelters... Our commander found out and promised to cover for us if we built him a specialized bunker... He was the last of the great CCs.
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. By the way, I love subs and their history.
