Best Friends ET2 Earl Thomas Graham; YN3 Rafael Navarro DeJesus; SK2 Fabian Lickteig (I served overseas with his brother Jerry who was a Hospital Corpsman); CDR Karas, the Skipper, who tried to rescue me from bad life choices but I would not hear of it (Thanx for trying, Commander)
Best Moment THE BLUES BROTHERS was filmed in Chicago while I was stationed there; Pope John Paul came to visit in October 1979 when I was there as well.
Chain of Command CDR Robert Karas, U. S. Navy, Commanding Officer; HM1 Whitesell, Senior Corpsman
Other Memories Terrorist bomb set off at the Reserve Center one evening and blew one of the huge, heavy wooden doors off the building. No injuries, thank God; 1979. I still don't know what the Center had to do with Puerto Rican independence that made it a target...strange...