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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Veteran
Current/Last Rank
Petty Officer Second Class
Current/Last Primary NEC
SM-0000-Signalman
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Signalman
Primary Unit
1968-1970, SM-0000, USS Hollister (DD-788)
Service Years
1967 - 1971
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club
Order of the Shellback
Order of the Golden Dragon
What are you doing now:
Retired from the construction industry after almost 46 years. (1971-2017)
Other Comments:
VISIT MY BROTHER VIET NAM WAR VETS:
USS DEHAVEN DD727- PIC&CREWS (1968)
http://ussdehaven.org/
USS HOLLISTER DD788-PIC&CREWS (1969-1970)
http://www.destroyersonline.com/usndd/dd788/
http://www.usshollister.org/
http://www.hullnumber.com/DD-788
https://www.navysite.de/crewlist/commandlist.php?commandid=1122
USS HENRY W TUCKER DD875-PICS & CREWS (1971)
http://www.hwtucker2000.com/
From Month/Year December / 1967
To Month/Year February / 1968
Unit Naval Station (NAVSTA) Pearl Harbor, HI Unit Page
Rank Seaman Apprentice
NEC SM-0000-Signalman
Base, Station or City Ford Island, Pearl HarborState/Country Hawaii
Patch
Type
Communications
Parent Unit
Naval Stations
Strength
Installation
Created/Owned By
Not Specified
Last Updated: Sep 7, 2014
Other Memories Held duty on the station, bunked in the old WWII barracks while going to signalman school in 1967. Went to movies in the old Quonset Huts on the Island. Went back in 2013 and nothing was the same. A few museums buildings remained.