181 - December 8, 2006 6:11 am

Name:

Bill (Th' Sev) Severing

Tender:

USS Proteus (AS-19)

Comments:

Only naval ship I ever served on (1977-1980).
S-7 DIV, also ran the ship's entertainment system, which consisted of operating a reel-to-reel tape unit with AFRTS programming tapes.
Rode The Pro back to Long Beach in '78 for the overhaul period and transferred (I say kicked off) just before she was to go back to Guam. Did a late night DJ gig on "Old Pro Radio" on the way back to the states.

I've never forgotten her, and never will.

182 - December 5, 2006 9:18 pm

Name:

Curt Simmons

Tender:

USS Fulton (AS-11)

Comments:

Served on USS Fulton (77-80 and 86-89), USS Frank Cable (AS-40) from (81-83) and the USS Simon Lake (AS-33). I served in the Special Weapons Division on Fulton and Cable and was the Crane Officer on Simon Lake. Tenders were, and are, the true unsung heroes of the fleet. I had the best years of my naval career on the above ships. To all tender sailors, Well Done!!

183 - December 4, 2006 4:13 pm

Name:

Jim Bampfield

Tender:

USS Proteus (AS-19)

Comments:

Aboard the "Pro" 60 - 62
Also on the Bushnell (AS-15) 62-64

184 - December 1, 2006 5:00 pm

Name:

Terry P. Abts

Tender:

Emory Land

Comments:

A good friend of mine, Chris Miller, is currently serving on "39". His father sent me the link and it is great!. Being an old navy man, I have enjoyed touring this site. To all those who serve on our Navy's tenders "God speed".

185 - November 28, 2006 3:49 pm

Name:

Melissa Vaughn

Tender:

Proteus

Comments:

My father, William "Bill" Kolb, served on the USS Proteus in the early 1960's and the Bainbridge as a missile officer. I am looking for anyone that knew him. Any replies would be appreciated. Thanks

186 - November 24, 2006 12:51 am

Name:

Costello Charles EM3

Tender:

Bushnell AS-15

Comments:

Aboard Nov.55 TO June59 Worked in outside repair shop

187 - November 21, 2006 12:29 am

Name:

Jon

Tender:

AS-19

Comments:

I served on the pig (proteus in guam)from 77to78 ,I managed to survive with my sanity working in the optical shop and later shop 38a .I remember the guys throwing wrenches at the marines on drills in their shorts and m16s and them not missing a stop. I also remember the missle hatches opening up for inspections (
kind of hard to miss)and later realizing what it was all about . Looking to hear whats happening Leroy,Ed and the rest

188 - November 19, 2006 9:56 am

Name:

Dick Moe

Tender:

USS Proteus AS-19

Comments:

I was on the Proteus early 70 - late 73 while in Guam. I worked in the Optical shop with Chief Murray and crew. One higlight was when the Cheif brought Tex Ritter through the shop. What a day that was. I had a lot of good times while on board. I remember my first ride in a typhoon, never thought a ship that big would bounce that much! The yard period in California, the shake down cruise back to Gaum, going through the Golden Shell Back intiation was a memory I'll never forget. Sydney's Kings Cross was interesting, as were the articles in the paper about the noisy gray US ship parked below the goveners house. I'm glad to see the Proteus survived into the 90's.

189 - November 13, 2006 8:19 am

Name:

Reid Welch

Tender:

Orion AS 18

Comments:

Onboard 2/73-1/74,
mostly Radcon Division, but started in the carpentry shop. Dave Herring. Walter Crowe. Tex--are you ticking still? Ben Gex, Walter Hinkley, David Schermer, and so many other good guys. Ben Gex, N'awleans deviler.
Drop me a note. Remember Rickover's visit? Remember the time I set off sirens and bells over the ship--the Air Particulate Detector Alarm! And all I'd done was open the crystal face of a radium dial wall clock of 1943, down in the decon room. That's some sensitive detector! Greg Hartsock. Glenn Detro. Danny Shellenberger. Frank Prochaska.
Hey, Frank--I just made you into a poem about that damned Poinciana tree you Orioned back from Ft. Lauderdale, and -thought- you could plant successfully in your Charleston back yard. I still laugh. We all had a good time, at times. It was a growing time for young men. We saw the last of the old diesel boats shuffle off to Iran. In the Orion's library I found one night a science fiction book, "The Nightmare Reader". The card jacket in the back of the book was rubber stamped
USS SCORPION.

Weep for the dead.

190 - November 10, 2006 9:49 pm

Name:

Michael Bankson

Tender:

USS H.W. Gilmore (AS-16)

Comments:

I was on the Gilmore from May '79 until decom. I worked in the tech library and then in R-3, 51-B