Shipmates
Please feel free to submit photos, preferably a current one and one from way back when! Send a few details that may help us remember you, and maybe a little update about what you've been up to since we saw you last. Please e-mail the webmaster.
Fred Miller (STG2 1977-80)
I was a second class sonar tech in AS Division from 1977 to 1980. I worked and hung out with Willy Stroud, Bill Carpenter, Ernie Morris and a few others you may remember. I found the reunion site with some photos and had a few I thought you might like to see or add to the site. They include a shot of the forecastle and bridge on a foggy morning in the Med in 1978; a shot of STG-1 Harold Aubel with a new sonar transducer that was installed in the Jax Shipyards in late '78 or early '79 (before we went to Charleston); and STG-3 Jose Colon and STG-SN Joel Watley hauling a hose up to the ASROC deck for a saltwater washdown during that '78 Med cruise. (Look for Fred's photos in the
photo albums.)
I got out of the Navy in the fall of 1980, while the JI was in Guantanamo Bay. I went to college, got a degree in journalism, got married and went to work for a daily newspaper in Arkansas. Now I'm a science writer, editor and photographer for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Fred.
Richard Dobson (FTG3 1976-80)
The Jonas Ingram was my first and only ship. I watched her pull in from a North Atlantic in November 1976. She was my home till I left her in the Charleston shipyards in January 1980.
After all these years, I still have a shower curtain hook attached to my coffee cup.