Previously Held NEC SR-0000-Seaman Recruit
SN-0000-Seaman
SN-9740-Seaman - Other Technical and Allied Specialists
IC-0000-Interior Communications Electrician
I retired on the last day of June, 2011, the month I turned 61,
and took my Arizona State pension, then Social Security at 62.
I spent my post-navy life as a photographer and media manager.
The Navy gave me gypsy feet, and I've enjoyed them all my life.
As a result, traveling was not just a bucket list item for me.
With the way things have gone, it was a good investment.
I'm a direct descendant, tenth generation, of Joseph Loomis.
The Loomis Family arrived in the New World on 17 July, 1638.
We have defended America ever since.
Other Comments:
"Service included boots-on-the-ground in Viet-Nam"
[ One year, 365 days, 24/7 -- 7 June 1970 to 7 June 1971 ] U.S. Naval Advisory Group, Vietnamese Naval Shipyard, Saigon RVN.
I am also a Plank Owner and Shellback, USS Harlan County (LST-1196).
During my 4 years of active duty, 3 years were credited as foreign or sea service.
Technically, I was on Active Duty, USN, 3 years, 11 months and 16 days. However, I was in the Naval Reserve before that and after that, both Active Reserves and Inactive Reserves. So N/TWS has credited me from April 1969 through April 1983, 4 years active USN plus 4 years USNR and 6 years inactive Naval Reserves, and that is why my profile may occasionally show three hash marks. 1983 was my final Inactive Naval Reserve discharge date. Also, because I worked overseas, I never managed to take the 2nd Class Exam. So, actually I never wore more than one hash mark on my dress blues. And yes... there is a "V" on my Navy Achievement Medal even without having a Combat Action Ribbon because that's the way it was awarded. For more information click on the NAM w/V ribbon in my ribbon rack.
I am glad, proud, to have been born an American.
I voluntarily joined the armed forces, and for that
matter I volunteered for duty in Viet-Nam.
What I had hoped for was to not bring the violence,
the lack of value of a human life that I experienced
in Viet-Nam, back to America. It is that simple.
During my civilian career I spent over ten years as a hospital/medical photographer, two years in Saudi Arabia with Lockheed, and then two and a half decades as the media specialist and manager for a 9,000+ student public school district in Phoenix, Arizona. I feel fortunate to have retired without ever having a single unemployment or welfare check.
Years ago, I realized just how fragile our way of life is... and that it could be... "WAS".
Could the South Rise Again? Could California secede? Could we be conquered from within? Could foreign powers simply walk in with a deal that was too good to refuse? My answer was Yes.
The year, 2020. For the past ten years America has given up on any attempt to secure its border with either Mexico or Canada. Most of the South-West was resettled with people who wanted to reconnect with Old Mexico and from California to Texas secession from the old United States has taken place. A United States of Mexico now includes what was California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
It has been nearly a decade since the collapse of the dollar. China demanded payment in gold for trillions of dollars and used their international leverage to force sale of all federal lands in the North-West and Central States. A promise of jobs and renewed economic security lead more than twenty states to secede including the New Confederacy after allying itself with China in 2017. The Chinese Revolt in western Canada divided the country giving control to the Chinese Federation and French Rule was established in the New French Territories in eastern Canada.
Without a Navy to defend remote Alaska the Russians over took the territory and what was Northern Canada without any resistance. And after decades of increased Russian relationships, and the forced immigration, the United States of South America allied themselves with Russia as an ally protectorate.
In an attempt to keep the United States of America alive a dozen or more states formed an economic alliance with United Europe and exist under a limited trade partnership.
Attached Map Color-Key: Red/Russia. Purple/Chinese Federation of Canada and the New Confederacy. Blue/New France. Green/United Mexico. Gold/USA under the United European Alliance.
.png?ixlib=java-2.3.0&w=100&s=d40e366bb55af1e70293eedccb148713 "Brown Water Navy (Vietnam)")
.png?ixlib=java-2.3.0&w=100&s=0cb147133885c62667d8969c50b66659 "Order of the Ditch (Panama Canal)")
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