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L. S. McPeters

D. L. Hawkins

W. S. Brandenburg

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.

 

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.

Tom Maroldy

Robert Allard

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)

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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. 

 

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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