Previously Held NEC SR-0000-Seaman Recruit
SN-0000-Seaman
Service Years
1965 - 1970
Other Languages
Spanish
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club
Order of the Golden Dragon
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Additional Information
What are you doing now:
I taught Aikido at the University of Arizona, Department of Campus Recreation. I taught a Basic Level class and an Int/Adv Level. In January of 2017, stepped down from being the Chief Instructor and turned the class over to my Former student, Michael Pajor, Shodan. I am still involved but I am now the Senior Instructor Emritus.
Due to the sudden death of Michael A. Pajor, Shodan at the beginning of January, 2019, I have had to resume my position as Chief Instructor of the Aikido classes at the Unniversity of Arizona.
Our classes have been halted because of the COVID-19 virus. Not sure of when they will resume again.
Following his successful command of the Card, Captain Isbell was on duty with the Tenth Fleet, Anti-submarine Warfare, Navy Department, Washington, D.C., for a year. He then reported to the Pacific Fleet for assignment as Commanding Officer of USS Yorktown. It was while taking passage on USS Franklin prior to assuming command that Captain Isbell lost his life when the carrier was hit by bombs from a Japanese plane off Okinawa on March 19, 1945.
Her keel was laid down on 14 March 1945 at Staten Island, New York, by the Bethlehem Steel Company. She was launched on 6 August 1945 sponsored by Mrs. Arnold J. Isbell, the widow of Captain Isbell; and commissioned on 5 January 1946 with Commander Carlton B. Jones in command. She joined the Atlantic Fleet and operated off the east coast. In January 1947, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and homeported at San Diego. She spent the remainder of her US Navy days homeported on the West coast.
