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Not a whole lot. When I retired from the Navy in 75, went to San Diego City College for appliance repair. Got a job with then Montgomery Ward repairing all major appliances.Stayed with them for about 17 yrs.
Opportunity came along in 93 to go back to teaching at weld school Naval Station San Diego. They now had civilian instructors.
The school moved to the Great Lakes in 95. Around six of us instructors went with the school, then put it in commission the first part of 96.
My last class with the school was Oct.99.
Now fully retired in San Diego.
Other Memories Never forget we were off the coast of Vietnam,the captain took the ship real close to the shore,we needed to get fire inland as far as we could get, thought we might run aground,bow faceing the shore. We fired our 5 inchers for many hours until you could see the paint on the gun barrels smoking. On one mount on the O1 level believe it was mt.52 we had a hang fire in one of the barrels.Chief gunner wanted to put a short charge in it to clear it.They thought of many ways to do it, but it ended up the way the Chief suggested in the first place. So that's what he done,put a short charge in and blew it over the side.We had visions of that gun mount blowing up.But everything worked.
