I am a retired Chief Radioman, USN since 1972 with 20 + years. I have been a ham radio op since 1958 with my first callsign of K8SXS (Mohawk, MI.) (Upper Peninsula)
My boot camp was NTC Great Lakes.
I served on the USS Grackle AMS13 (minesweeper-wooden hull). I was discharged in 1955 and became a deckhand on the D.O. Mills (oreship- Great Lakes) until my reenlistment in 1956.
Comfairwing One (USS Kenneth Whiting AV14, USS Pine Island AV12, USS Salisbury Sound AV13), USS Yorktown CVA/CVS10.
NMCRTC Detroit, RM B school, TTY school, Crypto school, USS Boston CAG1 1965-69 (RMC).
IT school, Instructor TTY school San Diego 1969-71. NAF Naha, Okinawa 1971-72 and transfer to the Fleet Reserve in Nov 1972 with 20+ years.
I became a believer in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of the living and true God in May of 1978.
My wife Marilyn and I moved to Jackson, TN in Apr 1988 where we are "resting and rejoicing" in our Lord! If you don't know Him, may God grant you repentance and faith in His Son for salvation from death (hell/jail), the last judgment and the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:11-15).
