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Douglas Siemonsma, LCDR
to remember
Brooks, Roger, PNCS USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Alliance
Last Address 117 S. Country Club Ave Brandon, SD 57005
Date of Passing Oct 07, 2023
Location of Interment Hills of Rest Memorial Park - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Best Moment During my assignment at MEPS Sioux Falls, I was selected for promotion to Senior Chief Petty Officer E-8 (PNCS).
In late 1982, it was time for me to consider my reassignment orders. I was inline for promotion to Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9) and along with that a set of orders to a brand new aircraft carrier. I would set up the Personnel Office and all that went along with it. The family had enough traveling, moving, packing and unpacking, so I decided that it was my turn to start over. They told me to go ahead and to come home on leave every once in a while. They were done; so after nearly twenty-two years, I chose to retire from the Navy. I retired from the Navy February 28, 1983.
Other Memories NAVAL RECRUITING COMMAND AREA FIVE OMAHA, NEBRASKA? January 1979 ? February 1983 (throw me in that brier patch). Having completed my tour on USS Wainwright, I ask to be assigned to recruiting duty in the Midwest so that we might get a little closer to mine and Mary?s home-part of the country. When my detailer offerred me the Omaha assignment, I called to find out where I might be assigned; I was told that Sioux Falls, South Dakota Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) was where I would work from. They also told me that the snow was currently four feet deep and piled even higher along the streets. I truly believe they were trying to discourage me from taking the assignment. Ha! Ha! Ha! throw me into that brier patch.
