Found some old pics a buddy sent me (1976)......
Shellback initiation......
Float testing A**** following liberty in Mazatlan......
Rescue at sea off Yokohama......
Diesel Boats Forever......
Harry
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Cool pics. The bearded guy is a dead ringer for a guy I went to school with.
Edit: I had to look it up because the year was a bit off. My friend Dennis was a grunt in Nam. Died in 2010,
God Speed Dennis and thank you.
Edit: I had to look it up because the year was a bit off. My friend Dennis was a grunt in Nam. Died in 2010,
God Speed Dennis and thank you.
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Very sad to learn of your friend's passing, Dave. Did he serve in the Army or the Marine Corps? I was a grunt as well (1st tour of duty)......
Were we ever really this young? 19 yrs. old. Just made L/Cpl. 4th from right, standing with AK.
They wouldn't let us keep 'em as souvenirs, though. My buddy Robert at far right with M14.
Captured NVA flag. Yes,they are holding it upside down for a reason. My buddy Robert on the right.
A smile and a joke for every occasion. KIA Con Thien. Think of him every day.
11 years later, towards end of 2nd hitch...... Didn't fit into civilian life very well, so went back in the service (Navy that time).
Built this car at the auto hobby shop on base when we were in port. Yes, I'm still wearing jungle boots. Kinda got used to 'em.
Except for turning and burning long hours keeping the subs patched up and on station, it was pretty laid back at the sub pier.
Was sent over to 32nd St. Naval Station on TAD orders to work on a pressure vessel in the reactor compartment of a skimmer once
and the OOD wanted to put me on report for being out of uniform. Had a long beard at the time and was wearing green coveralls and
jungle boots and a USS Dixon ball cap with my rank insignia on it. Surface fleet was sorta uptight about stuff like that.
OOD apparently wanted me to report in dress whites with haircut and shave and shoes shined and then change after I reported aboard.
We didn't have a Navy pickup handy, so I drove the Chevy and parked it on the pier near the brow. He wasn't very happy that, either.
When my '65 GTO ragtop was totaled, I built up the engine and swapped it into a '56 Chevy along with the Muncie 4-speed and a '69 Camaro SS396 12-bolt rearend.
'74 400 Pontiac short block, '68 428 cop car heads, Sig Erson cam, '66 Pontiac iron tri-power intake.
Note dealer only MOPAR 6-Pak carbs (factory high perf replacements for the production 440 6-Pak carbs) adapted to Pontiac intake.
Also ran 2-1/2" dual exhaust with MOPAR hemi mufflers and a '76 Cordoba rear sway bar on that car.
Front sway bar was from a new TransAm Firebird. G-60 15 radials put over 8" of tread on the road at all 4 corners. Handled really well.
Happy Motoring,
Harry
Were we ever really this young? 19 yrs. old. Just made L/Cpl. 4th from right, standing with AK.
They wouldn't let us keep 'em as souvenirs, though. My buddy Robert at far right with M14.
Captured NVA flag. Yes,they are holding it upside down for a reason. My buddy Robert on the right.
A smile and a joke for every occasion. KIA Con Thien. Think of him every day.
11 years later, towards end of 2nd hitch...... Didn't fit into civilian life very well, so went back in the service (Navy that time).
Built this car at the auto hobby shop on base when we were in port. Yes, I'm still wearing jungle boots. Kinda got used to 'em.
Except for turning and burning long hours keeping the subs patched up and on station, it was pretty laid back at the sub pier.
Was sent over to 32nd St. Naval Station on TAD orders to work on a pressure vessel in the reactor compartment of a skimmer once
and the OOD wanted to put me on report for being out of uniform. Had a long beard at the time and was wearing green coveralls and
jungle boots and a USS Dixon ball cap with my rank insignia on it. Surface fleet was sorta uptight about stuff like that.
OOD apparently wanted me to report in dress whites with haircut and shave and shoes shined and then change after I reported aboard.
We didn't have a Navy pickup handy, so I drove the Chevy and parked it on the pier near the brow. He wasn't very happy that, either.
When my '65 GTO ragtop was totaled, I built up the engine and swapped it into a '56 Chevy along with the Muncie 4-speed and a '69 Camaro SS396 12-bolt rearend.
'74 400 Pontiac short block, '68 428 cop car heads, Sig Erson cam, '66 Pontiac iron tri-power intake.
Note dealer only MOPAR 6-Pak carbs (factory high perf replacements for the production 440 6-Pak carbs) adapted to Pontiac intake.
Also ran 2-1/2" dual exhaust with MOPAR hemi mufflers and a '76 Cordoba rear sway bar on that car.
Front sway bar was from a new TransAm Firebird. G-60 15 radials put over 8" of tread on the road at all 4 corners. Handled really well.
Happy Motoring,
Harry
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Memorial Day, 2015
In remembrance of those who paid the ultimate price that others might live......
Semper Fi, Bros. See ya on the other side......
Harry
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In remembrance of those who paid the ultimate price that others might live......
Semper Fi, Bros. See ya on the other side......
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enigma57 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:56 pm Boot, my Dad served with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion (USMC) in the Great War (later called WWI). He was badly wounded in the battle for the Belleau Wood in June of 1918. Had a steel plate in his head, one knee held together with a metal pin and was gassed (mustard gas). He was in a field hospital near the battleground.
Told my Mom more people were dying in that hospital from the Spanish flu than from their wounds. He knew that he had to get out of there if he was going to live. He couldn't walk, so he pulled himself off his bed and out a window. Fell about 6 ft. to the ground and began pulling himself across the ground using his arms. Made it to the other side of the road, lost consciousness and lay face down in a bar ditch.
A lorry came along and the men manning it loaded it high with bodies of those who had passed. Stacked bodies on the lorry like cord wood. Saw my Dad, thought he was dead and tossed him on with the others. When they arrived where the graves were being dug, someone realized Dad was still alive and he was taken to a hotel that had been converted to a hospital and nursed back to health. He returned to his unit and fought in the battle of St. Etienne that October, a month priour to the signing of the Armistice.
Best regards,
Harry
enigma57 wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2015 1:02 am Very sad to learn of your friend's passing, Dave. Did he serve in the Army or the Marine Corps? I was a grunt as well (1st tour of duty)......
Were we ever really this young? 19 yrs. old. Just made L/Cpl. 4th from right, standing with AK.
They wouldn't let us keep 'em as souvenirs, though. My buddy Robert at far right with M14.
Captured NVA flag. Yes,they are holding it upside down for a reason. My buddy Robert on the right.
A smile and a joke for every occasion. KIA Con Thien. Think of him every day.
11 years later, towards end of 2nd hitch...... Didn't fit into civilian life very well, so went back in the service (Navy that time).
Built this car at the auto hobby shop on base when we were in port. Yes, I'm still wearing jungle boots. Kinda got used to 'em.
Except for turning and burning long hours keeping the subs patched up and on station, it was pretty laid back at the sub pier.
Was sent over to 32nd St. Naval Station on TAD orders to work on a pressure vessel in the reactor compartment of a skimmer once
and the OOD wanted to put me on report for being out of uniform. Had a long beard at the time and was wearing green coveralls and
jungle boots and a USS Dixon ball cap with my rank insignia on it. Surface fleet was sorta uptight about stuff like that.
OOD apparently wanted me to report in dress whites with haircut and shave and shoes shined and then change after I reported aboard.
We didn't have a Navy pickup handy, so I drove the Chevy and parked it on the pier near the brow. He wasn't very happy that, either.
When my '65 GTO ragtop was totaled, I built up the engine and swapped it into a '56 Chevy along with the Muncie 4-speed and a '69 Camaro SS396 12-bolt rearend.
'74 400 Pontiac short block, '68 428 cop car heads, Sig Erson cam, '66 Pontiac iron tri-power intake.
Note dealer only MOPAR 6-Pak carbs (factory high perf replacements for the production 440 6-Pak carbs) adapted to Pontiac intake.
Also ran 2-1/2" dual exhaust with MOPAR hemi mufflers and a '76 Cordoba rear sway bar on that car.
Front sway bar was from a new TransAm Firebird. G-60 15 radials put over 8" of tread on the road at all 4 corners. Handled really well.
Happy Motoring,
Harry
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