Turning the Corner
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Mountain Pass
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Turning the Corner
All,
This weekend I started the point of a project I like to get to. I went from taking things apart to putting back together! (13 months into it)
Don't you love that milestone?
Body is at the painter
Engine and transmission are back from the rebuilder.
Starting to paint and put the the engine together.
www.photobucket.com/1966f250
Rich in Colorado
This weekend I started the point of a project I like to get to. I went from taking things apart to putting back together! (13 months into it)
Don't you love that milestone?
Body is at the painter
Engine and transmission are back from the rebuilder.
Starting to paint and put the the engine together.
www.photobucket.com/1966f250
Rich in Colorado
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Looking good! Jealous your's is in better condition then my 63.
Saw the WW2 Submarine sailors sticker on your photobucket. Thought that was pretty cool. Guess when I stick my OEF-OND sticker on my truck- it will sort of be the same kind of thing-carried on history.
Saw the WW2 Submarine sailors sticker on your photobucket. Thought that was pretty cool. Guess when I stick my OEF-OND sticker on my truck- it will sort of be the same kind of thing-carried on history.
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Did'ja know that in 1944/45, the USN "invented" names for fish, so they could name subs after them?
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Shipwrecked is an interesting handle for a Coast Guard Chief!!!
Rich
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Rich in Colorado
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Lionfish SS-328 (Cramp, laid down 7/11/1943, preserved 1972) is a real fish and I assume Grayback SS-208 would be too. Tambor Class, laid down 31/1/1941 (Electric Boat).
Volunteer: USS Iowa (BB-61) berthed in Los Angeles (San Pedro) Harbor, July 2012 as a museum ship. 1990/2011: Rusting away in Suisun Bay among the Reserve Fleet.
Volunteer: USS Iowa (BB-61) berthed in Los Angeles (San Pedro) Harbor, July 2012 as a museum ship. 1990/2011: Rusting away in Suisun Bay among the Reserve Fleet.
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Shipwrecked - It's my Dad's truck. He was a WWII sub vet. Retired a Chief Gunners mate. He only would have a sub sticker and an American flag as the only stickers on his truck. Dad gave the truck to my son before dad died. My son is flying off the carrier Bush now. So I'm restoiring it.
Shipwrecked is an interesting handle for a Coast Guard Chief!!!
Rich
Shipwrecked is an interesting handle for a Coast Guard Chief!!!
Rich
I'm a second generation Coastie (dad was a Yeoman Chief) and I'm a Machinery Technician. I'm on my 4th ship- well- about to get transferred off my ship so I may get thru recovery of cancer so I am looking at going shoreside finally- not exactly the ideal circumstances. But sh** happens.
My ship is the SEA DEVIL which is named for the fish- but is also upholding the history of the previous USN submarines. One was a WW2 submarine, another was Cold War era. We have one of the WW2 USS Sea Devil christening coins on our mess deck which I always thought was cool. There are several USCG 87 foot coastal patrol boats who share names with the WW2 submarine predisesors. My Cutter happens to work for the USN. Long story...google may answer that better than I would.
My truck was a driftwood grey color- which reminds me of the Navy haze grey. I spent a year and a half working with the USN while I was overseas in the middle east for OEF/OND.
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Sea Devil SS-400 (launched 8/3/1944 -Portsmouth- expended 1965).
Dad: 1940/42: USS Black Hawk (AD-9) Asiatic Fleet / 1943/44: New Orleans, routing supplies to convoys destined for Persian Gulf / 1945: Supply Officer USS Quincy (CA-71) / 1945/47: Bremerton WA decommissioning ships.
Dad: 1940/42: USS Black Hawk (AD-9) Asiatic Fleet / 1943/44: New Orleans, routing supplies to convoys destined for Persian Gulf / 1945: Supply Officer USS Quincy (CA-71) / 1945/47: Bremerton WA decommissioning ships.
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All,
This weekend I started the point of a project I like to get to. I went from taking things apart to putting back together! (13 months into it)
Don't you love that milestone?
Body is at the painter
Engine and transmission are back from the rebuilder.
Starting to paint and put the the engine together.
www.photobucket.com/1966f250
Rich in Colorado
This weekend I started the point of a project I like to get to. I went from taking things apart to putting back together! (13 months into it)
Don't you love that milestone?
Body is at the painter
Engine and transmission are back from the rebuilder.
Starting to paint and put the the engine together.
www.photobucket.com/1966f250
Rich in Colorado
My father is also a WWII vet, served on landing craft.
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