Genealogical Research. Presently creating and editting books of various family lines.
Other Comments:
After Retirement from the Navy in 1971, moved with family to Eagle River, Alaska. In 1972 began attending college in Anchorage, Alaska studying Surveying Technology. Earned an AAS Degree in 1974. Workded part time during this period as an Instrument Man for a private survey firm in Anchorage, Alaska.
1974 Moved to Chiloquin, Oregon, began attending the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) at Klamath Falls, Ore., studying Civil Engineering.
Summer 1975 returned to Alaska as a Coop Student Survey Technician for the office of the Alaska Bureau of Land Management. Surveyed the Alaska Native Villiage Townsite of Holy Cross, on the Yukon River, - employing Airborne Control Survey techniques, which used Helicopters to drop survey monuments at the intersection of predetermined angles and distances from set control positions on the ground. Once a week, went to the position of the survey monuments that had been dropped and moved and set them at the proper point for the corner of the section(s).
Returned to Oregon and OIT, attended classes for one semester and dropped out of College.
Worked for a while as a survey technician for an Engineering Firm in Klamath Falls.
1976-1977 Built our home on the Agency Lake, near Chiloquin, Ore.
1977 returned to OIT, continued studies full time, carrying from 12-21 Credits per term - 1979 Graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering.
Took a Job with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Santa Fe, NMex. as a Professional Surveyor. Went from Santa Fe to Denver, Colorado, to Grand Junction Colorado where I was in charge of a survey project office, to Denver, Colorado where I was a Survey Reviewer, to Gallup, NMex. where I was Project Manager of the Navajo Indian Reservation Surveys, to Phoenix, Az. where I was the GCDB Section Chief.
I retired at the BLM State Office in Phoenix, Az. in 1993. During my career as a Professional Surveyor for the U.S. Governement, I progressed up the ladder from GS-7 to GM-13.
I eventually moved back to the state of my birth, where my wife and I now live in retirement.
Remembrance Profiles -
1 Sailor Remembered
Philips, Phil, CPO
1971-1971, RM-9502, Naval Station (NAVSTA) San Diego
On 15 September 1946, the Secretary of the Navy re-designated the repair base Naval Station, San Diego. By the end of 1946, the base had grown to 294 buildings[4] with floor space square footage of more than 6,900,000 square feet (640,000 m2), berthing facilities included five piers of more than 18,000 feet (5,500 m) of berthing space. Land then totaled more than 921 acres (373 ha) and 16 miles (26 km) of roads. Barracks could accommodate 380 officers and 18,000 enlisted men. More than 3,500 sailors could be fed in the galley at a single sitting on the base.
Later, in the 1990s, the Naval Station became the principal homeport of the then U.S. Pacific Fleet, when the Long Beach Naval Shipyard was closed for the final time on 30 September 1994. Naval Station San Diego was realigned under Commander, Navy Region Southwest and became one in a triad of metropolitan Navy bases that now make up the bulk of the metro area Navy's presence. With that change, the base became the hub of all Navy port operations for the Region, assumed logistical responsibility for both Naval Medical Center San Diego and the Region headquarters and was re-designated Naval Base San Diego.
