Forty years ago today

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ne1410s · #1 Post by **ne1410s** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:50 pm

I reported to my duty assignment on board the fleet oiler USS Chemung (A0-30). It was docked at Subic Bay, P.I. I've had better Christmases. However, I WAS aboard a US Navy vessel and NOT in a foxhole somewhere "in country." I joined the Navy to see the world (and avoid the infantry) and damned if I didn't: Japan twice, Hong Kong twice, Taiwan twice, Subic Bay was our home port overseas--Long Beach was our "real" home port. I boarded the ship a Radioman striker (E-3) and left 19 months later as Radioman 2nd Class (E-5). My service allowed me to return to college on the GI Bill and to be the first in my family, from time immemorial, to graduate from college. I retired from teaching after 31 years of junior high social studies. The End.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #2 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:55 pm

My uncle was a Radioman around the same time, also based in Long Beach.

Would you happen to know anyone named John Lewin?

VAdame · #3 Post by **VAdame** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:12 pm

Ah, lotsa radiomen in our family trees

That was my Dad's job in the Army Air Corps -- WWII.

ne1410s · #4 Post by **ne1410s** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:09 pm

Would you happen to know anyone named John Lewin?

Sorry, no.

Wedemeyer, Hagan, Short, House, Shugrew, Godines, Stethem? Yes.

Bob Juch · #5 Post by **Bob Juch** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:07 pm

60 years ago today my father was aboard his ship, the USS Sierra, a destroyer tender, in Tsingtao, China.