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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
We have defended America ever since.Â
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.
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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.Â
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.Â
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. Â It is that simple.
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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.Â
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Last Updated: Jul 29, 2022
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Member since birth: SONS OF THE REBELLION & REVOLUTION. I have a direct blood-line to the War of Independence (War of the Revolution) from both my father's (LOOMIS) side and my mother's side (REEN/TOTTEN).
On my father's side, LOOMIS: American Revolutionary War (War of Independence): My great-great-great-great grandfather "Jonathan Loomis" served for seven years with Captain Joel Stevens' Company, Colonel David Rossiter's Regiment of Massachusetts, and fought at the battle of Bunker Hill.
And on my mother's side: REEN/TOTTEN: Levi TOTTEN: Sergeant, 2nd Battalion Militia, American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783. That makes me a Son of the American Revolution.
My LOOMIS FAMILY TREE: Steven Dennis Loomis, myself: Viet-Nam Veteran, Saigon, 1970/1971 Dennis William Loomis, my father, (U.S. Army Infantry WWII), son of: Harry George Loomis, son of: Joel Woolsey Loomis, (Civil War, Michigan 11th Infantry, Co.B), son of: Woolsey Melancthon Loomis, son of: Eber Loomis, son of: Jonathan Loomis, (Revolutionary War, 7 years, Stevens' Co., Mass), son of: Nathaniel Loomis, son of: James Loomis, son of: Joseph Loomis II, first son of: Joseph (Lummys) Loomis, (ARRIVED IN BOSTON 1638) son of: John Lummys (Braintree Essex), son of: John Lummys, Jr. (died 1567, Thaxted Essex) son of: Thomas Lummyus (died 1551, Thaxted Essex) son of: Helias Lumhals, Jr., son of: Helias (Lumhals) Lomas.