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Robert W. Gamble
Our very
own Punchy Gamble has take his last cat shot. He completed his
last tour on earth on 14 July, 2008 at the Arizona State Veteran's Home.
As a young Ensign, I was first introduced to Chief Gamble aboard the USS
Coral Sea in 1963. I will never ever forget this Chief of Chiefs.
I bet you he is keeping the ball
pumped up.
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of Bremerton, Wshington
June 17, 1920 to June 1, 2008
Veteran
Lois Kiely McGregor of Seabeck and Bremerton passed away at
Bremerton Naval Hospital on June 1st.
Lois was born on June 17, 1920, in Fayetteville, NY. She grew up
during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. She attended
Syracuse University and eventually joined the WAVES during WWII
where she was a supply officer. There she met her late husband, Mick
McGregor, a career Navy man from Topsfield, Mass.
After the war, she left the service, finished college, married Mick
and went on to have five daughters who survive her: Patricia
McGregor, Mary Snider and Margaret McGregor, all of Bremerton, Caryl
Coffey of Oaxaca, Mexico, and Jamie Whitney of Seaback.
As a Navy wife and homemaker, she enjoyed bridge, golf, living in
The P.I. and Okinawa, raising her five daughters and the military
life with Mick.
In Seabeck, she dedicated her time to PEO, hiking and gardening.
Later during her Bremerton years, she took pleasure in being around
her girls, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Tom Maroldy |
Robert Allard
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REUNION -
April
30 - May 2, 2010
(with final review of dates April 2009)
MONTEREY
CALIFORNIA
HOST AND HOSTESS
CAROL & ELEANOR STREY
FIFTH HEAVY ATTACK TWO
SQUADRON REUNION WAS A WONDERFUL SUCCESS.
(picture taken at the Sky Club in NAS North Island
O'Club)
Pictures and stories are
posted.
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FIFTH HEAVY ATTACK TWO
SQUADRON REUNION
       
USS Midway fantail
Navy Lodge
Island Club Skyroom Sea n
Air Club
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This is
what we were yesterday, are today and will be forever!
A little something
written
from a Navy guy:
We know, for example, that after a lifetime of camaraderie that
few experience, it will remain as a longing for those past
times. We know in the Military life there is a fellowship which
lasts long after the uniforms are hung up in the back of the
closet. We know even if he throws them away, they will be on him
with every step and breath that remains in his life. We also
know how the very bearing of the man speaks of what he was and
in his heart still is.
These are the burdens of the job. You will still look at people
suspiciously, still see what others do not see or choose to
ignore and always will look at the rest of the Military world
with a respect for what they do; only grown in a lifetime of
knowing.
Never think for one moment you are escaping from that life. You
are only escaping the "job" and merely being allowed to leave
"active" duty.
So what I wish for you is that whenever you ease into
retirement, in your heart you never forget for one moment that
"Blessed are the Peacemakers for they shall be called children
of God," and you are still a member of the greatest fraternity
the world has ever known.
Civilian Friends vs.. Veteran Friends
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you're too busy to talk to them
for a week. VETERAN FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years,
and will happily carry on the same conversation you were having
the last time you met.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry. VETERAN FRIENDS: Have
cried with you.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it
back. VETERAN FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's
yours.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you. VETERAN FRIENDS:
Could write a book with direct quotes from you.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd
is doing. VETERAN FRIENDS: Will kick the crowds' ass that left
you behind.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while. VETERAN FRIENDS: Are for
life.
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have shared a few experiences. .. VETERAN
FRIENDS: Have shared a lifetime of experiences no citizen could
ever dream of...
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think
you've had enough. VETERAN FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling
all over the place and say, "You better drink the rest of that
before you spill it!!" Then carry you home safely and put you to
bed...
CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will talk crap to the person who talks crap
about you. VETERAN FRIENDS: Will knock them the hell out OF
THEM..... for using your name in vain.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or
reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a
blank check made payable to "The United States of America," for
an amount of "up to and including my life."
From one Veteran to another, it's an honor to be in your
Company.
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BB Blum, XO of Cubi Point sends:
Cubi Special Cocktail
This is the recipe of the famous Cubi
Special Cocktail, served to generations of happy military visitors to Subic
Bay. By special permission of the Office of Naval Intelligence, it has been
declassified, but on the provision that no endorsement of its consumption is
to be construed thereby, and no expeditions into foreign lands be conducted
under it's power.
The "CUBI Special" Cocktail*:
Mix 96 ounces orange juice
84 ounces pineapple juice
6 ounces mango juice
6 ounces cranberry juice
2-4 ounces grenadine
Rum to taste. Lots of Rum.
Add a hand full of sliced local miniature limes, aka "calamonsines"
*'Tho a great drink at any time, it especially enhances the festive spirit
of the "Mongolian Barbecue": luscious viands of diverse meats, with exotic
veggies and sauces, grilled on flats of metal.., usually prepared by
Filipino cooks at the once great naval clubs around the world, waylaid by
Nuevo policies of the correct!
If mixing in trash cans or other bulk containers for landing parties of
varying size and composition, proportions may be estimated at:
· 16 parts orange juice,
· 14 p arts pineapple juice,
· 1 part mango juice,
· 1 part cranberry juice,
· 1/2 part grenadine.
· Lots of Rum; (between 10 and 15 parts)
If a quick fix is required, i.e., in a moving Duty Sedan, an approximation
can be made with
· 2 parts orange juice to
· one part cranberry juice and Rum.
For perfectly obvious reasons, notably its role in the fight against world
communism, this is known as a Radford Special.
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