Entered service in Dec 1977 boot camp in Orlando,FL. unit
068. First duty station, Corry Station Pensacola FL.
First
ship USS Caloosahatchee AO 98. Struck for Postal Clerk
and
received A school at Fort Ben Harrison In. Reported back
aboard AO 98 and was transferred to USS Conyngham DDG
17
while the ship was berthed in Bath Maine. EAOS in Dec
1981
and joined the Naval Reserve in 1983. Spent 13 years
with
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 20 and crossed over
to
EO retired from the IRR in 2003. Above the Artic and
below
the equator. Countless Med, North Atlantic, Caribbean,
GITMO, Haitian, West Africa and a Persian Gulf tours.
None
the worst for the wear.
