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USS Furse new chapters in Naval History... 19 y
This ship was a steaming, a get up and go type destroyer... It blazed a few pages in US Naval history; while I was on board!! If you don't try then you will never do anything...
Charleston was a good place and a sad place, for me.... When I finally got on Board The Furse DDR882, it was a new experience...
This was one of the first line destroyers of the Atlantic fleet... It was a Radar Picket ship... That meant it had a Azimuth Height tracking Radar, it could track satellites, ICBMs and the high flying Spy planes... It was originally part of the DEW line early warning system, monitoring possible ICBM launches from the USSR... These were the days of the real " Cold War "...
My Navy life ... read more At sea once again... we are riding the waves... 19 y
Life at sea offers many opportunities to see, many different and wonderful things and places.... If we take the time to look!!
At sea you can see many different and wonderful things...
My time stationed out of Key West island left a wonderful lasting impression on my young man’s mind... It is these opportunities in life that help to mold and shape us ....
The destroyer escort; Greenwood DE679, was decommission back to the reserve fleet, and assigned as a Naval Reserve Training ship in Bayboro Harbor, FL... Well I knew most of the crew would be transfered to other active duty ships, so we spent our time, standing watches and doing maintenance on the ship...
... read more More sea stories... 19 y
Give me a warm sea breeze on a quite afternoon, with the sound of waves in the distance and I can be happy....
More tales of the sea-
I will get on to college years, and my marriage, our children, and some around the world work experiences, once we have covered my Navy years, folks....
So on we sail / steam or what ever to the adventures of my life....
read more Gitmo Bay Cuba, beautiful place to dive.... 19 y
You can make where you are the best place on earth if you want to...
Gitmo Bay Cuba, a nice tropical spot....
Well we spent some quality time in those warm clear waters, before going off to do Navy stuff, you know ships such work... NO females much down there...
But I had to be some where so this was the spot at that moment in time... We played war games most of the day and sometimes into the night... Then we held critiques on what we did, {usually wrong} and then get to do it all over the next day... What fun...
read more Back to my Navy days, folks.... Adventure on the high seas... 19 y
My days as a sailor, allowed a young man to really see the world as it is, what a lesson....
Well I will go back to the years spent roaming the oceans wide.... While in the floating forces, or Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club, as we called the US Navy....
This was me at age 20, .... While I was assigned to the USS FURSE DDR882, out of Charleston Naval Station
There were more adventures on the USS Greenwood DE679, out of Key West; which we have discussed on previous blogs,{ you can go back and review if you missed them...}
It was way down in Jamaica, that we went my first Christmas away from home and the good Ole USA... We mis ... read more The true story of a remarkable man we met on the trail.... 19 y
He goes by "Just an Echo"... {We never learned his given name) If you venture onto the AT, and ask around or stop by one of the many trail shelters, you will find evidence of his writing and stories in the trail logs there...
Well when we ventured upon the AT last week little did we know that GOD had placed a unique individual in our pathways... A 70 year old man, in good physical condition, with a hard life, and an open heart with a contrite spirit....
We first noted his prose in a trail log at the Gooch Mt. shelter... These logs are there for anyone to make entries into... Most just list names and dates... Some make smart remarks, and others like "Just an Echo", write of life and trail magic...
Little did we know that we would catch up with him at the&n ... read more On the Appalachian Trail we met " Just an Echo "... 19 y
Many times in life you (we) are destined to meet certain people, this was such a case on the AT this week...
Well we can say that the great outdoors offers many unexpected things.... So it was as we did part of the Georgia section of the Appalachian Trail (AT) this week....
Our schedule was to do about thirty some miles of the Georgia section of the AT, in under four days, or all most 10 miles a day... One of my brothers who just happened to live about twenty miles from the southern terminus of the AT, dropped us off at Woody gap trail crossing, at 16:30 on Wensday... There was some light rain, but not any real threats, so we pressed on... We ... read more Appalachian Trail ahead... Oh my... 19 y
Many times in life we chart a new course and forge ahead... This helps us to see what things; GOD has in store for us...
Yes, folks one of my sons Steve (32) and I (over fifty) will hike part the Georgia section of the AT starting tomorrow.... SO if you do not hear back we just kept on going... or something like that...
So this will be short, I will plan to come back with more real life adventures, and exciting times, so stay tuned for the rest of my story...
There will be important people(presidents, actors, and kings) I have met, exciting rides, and unusual happenings, on land, in the air and on the sea... read more Tales of the sea, by me... My first fiction!! 19 y
The ocean is the largest(75%) part of the world... It has many ebbs and flows... Which I don't fear the ocean; like GOD; I definably respect it!! The Saga continues...
I will present some sea stories; which will be based on events either I experienced or some that were related to me... Here we go, this will be on on going blog entry, so check back from time to time to catch the latest part of the story... This first is fiction, and yes I have been to Zanzibar, folks.... So read on for an adventure on the high seas...
Chapter 1 Once upon a sailor’s dream...
The sky was wild and the waves beat relentlessly against the sea wall... An old sailor who sat by the docks and ... read more Lions and tigers and frogmen; OH MY!! 19 y
We jump ahead to another US Navy frogman story, one that almost get someone killed...
We now jump ahead a year or so, to see another frogman story.... This one came close to getting someone {the frogman} killed...
The second destroyer, I served on was out of Charleston SC Naval base, not as nice as Key West, but that is life we go where we must... Well it came time for Tender {A large repair ship } availability, and we were sent to Mayport, FL {JAX}..
For those of you that are not familiar with US Navy ships.... The much larger ship {The Destroyer Tender} is moored next to the pier, then the smaller destroyers are tied outboard ... read more You will not know exactly where the road takes you till you get to the end!! 19 y
U.S. Navy Underwater Swimmers School; Key West, Fla... Some interesting events...
Back to my Navy years, and some of the actives with the underwater swimmers...
Well Key West is a gates place to swim and dive... We are talking SCUBA, here folks... Well every service sent it people here to train, now there are other swimmer schools; one is in San Diego, CA... Another is in Hawaii, ect... Today we are looking at the Key West Naval Station only...
Key West was the only place in the conterminous United States that stayed in "Whites" years round.. Navy white uniforms.... The Marines at the gates were also tropical uniforms and wor ... read more The road of life leads to some interesting places... 19 y
What you do on your road of life, is more how you act, than where you are....
There were times on my road of life that I said; self what are we doing here??
The key to our journey is to be willing and ready to respond to what ever comes our way... That does not meet jump on every sexy female you meet, ( or for the gals try to get every cute boy you see to come hold and caress you...)... I believe we all are aware of this.... If not we need to talk....
You (we) will have many things and opportunities come up as we travel down life’s pathway... It is up to each of us to decide when and where we will react and how...&nb ... read more Many times the road becomes difficult, but we must press on... 19 y
It is not the road that should decide our path it is the final destination(s).. Getting there is the adventure !!
As we go back and forth on this road of life... Each of us will have adventures along the way... This is what life is about folks... The trip!! DUH!!
Lets step back to south Georgia, in my younger years, during the summer between the 8th grade going into high school in the ninth grade @ SPHS... Well my younger brother and I spent the entire summer, working out on the farm...
Learned a lot about cotton, corn, hogs, peanuts, tobacco, and girls.... Well there was a lot to do on the farm; sunup to sundown... Learned to really drive tractors ... read more This road of life makes many turns.... 19 y
It is the detours that we need to try and avoid... There are also dead ends; which require us to completely turn around at times... Don't just sit at a cul de sac, get back on the correct path...
This will be an over view and review of the road of life.... This may be about the adventures on my road of life, but you can see yourself in many of these common sceneries .... Lets look at what we have covered....
We started this journey in south Georgia, some years ago... Then moved thru the high school years in St Pete Fla... Now the adventures of my Navy years is our topic... soon we Will be able to see my college years, and then my meeting my wife, and the home life years.... { We raised four sons, and had several other t ... read more Some direction(s) on the road of life that we can all use!! 19 y
This is an over view for all of us on this road of life....
Folks this is a over view for all of us on this road of life....
We must all learn to:
1) Pay attention... This is where many of our problems and unusual happenings occur, so if you are confused refer to the "DUH.... The other side of pay attention" blog..
2) Ask directions... None of us was born knowing everything, so, yes even I (a man) have to stop and ask directions... This keeps us on the right road...
3) Plan your path... Each of us needs to determine where we are going or else we end up where we did not wa ... read more Don't fear those mountains in the distance..... 19 y
God plans our days and we should be smart enough to recognize the opportunities, when they come..... Destruction is sometimes only a heart beat away!! **New women traveler's section!!
Well friends I will start jumping up to date; then going back to some of the many unusual things that made up my wonderful life.... The real world!!
Well after being down in Deep Dixie the week before last, see Southern Etiquette blog for details... Those Dixie darlings and fun in the Southland..... I spent a week in Costa Mesa Calif... Nice climate, about 75 F in the day time, sunny, went swimming almost every day... Thanks to the prompting of a new Calif friend.... Food was great, and for non southerners the people were super...
I will s ... read more The road to South Ga..& Calif?? 19 y
Intercourse is the key to life... Life is an adventure and is a new game every day...It is where we go and what we do that matters... Remember if you don't do it then it doesn't get done... This is the road of your life... Live it!!
Last week we went to south Ga, where I was born and spent many of my youngest years... And then next week on to Calif... Yes I know, you never thought I would be going there , but .... this is part of life’s adventure !
This is an update Sunday 26th of June 2005.... For some more of the details on our trip to south Georgia, go to the Southern Etiquette blog week ending 18th .... Read about the intelligent, pretty southern belles or grits and what all... The face(s) of the new south.... Real Dixie da ... read more |