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I was on the 1200 - 1800 watch in the ERUL realizing that my time in the navy was growing shorter every day and if I wanted to see a trim party I would have to do something soon. Although I had heard of a trim party I had never seen nor participated in one so I decided to give it a try. I informed e...

Hey Bob,

Did you get any pictures?

While checking out the website links last night I noticed that last year on October 9, 2005 the VFW decided to change their eligibility requirements to include those with a legit patrol pin as veterans worthy of VFW membership. The actual requirement wording is “SSBN Nuclear Patrol Breast Insignia” ...

What's the status of the association with the SSVI?

Okay Goldies, fess up - Who's the guilty culprit? It was on one of the first field days of a blue crew patrol in probably 1976 or 1977 that a poly bottle was found suspended from a cord in the bilge outboard the R11's. It had a brown liquid with the scent of apples and had some things floating aroun...

Good photo there Vic. I didn't see even a trace of a white or gray hair in that young dude's whiskers.

Hey Bob, all I can say is that we got that thing outta-there! I think it was a NAE beacon countermeasure that we shot. That was the one patrol that I don't think anyone one of us could forget - the Machinery I upper level incident, the fan room incident, and for me...passing out in the laundry.

After watching the pie fight at the end of the movie "Bugsy Malone" I made the comment that I had always wanted to nail someone with a pie. The mid rats cook Rick Young told me that he would make the pie if he could name the target. I told him that that I would hit anyone he named as long ...

Where was the Blue Crew for Super Bowl X ? In the air flying into McGuire Air Force Base. Being a Pittsburgh Steeler fan (although outnumbered by Dallas Cowboy fans) I was looking forward to catching the end of the game in the waiting area while the plane was refueling for the leg to Charleston. On ...

6 patrols was not an uncommonly high number. I also did 6 but I remember quite a few that were aboard before me and still there after I left. Some of those include: Kelly Ray, Victor Madison, Bob Clements, Charlie Plotz, Mr. Fisk, Jim Whitmire, and Gary Rhoades. Most of the ones that their first pat...

Although I do remember us jamming the SPM into the bottom of the Cooper River, I believe that the Mud Puppy was earned in the waterway leading to King's Bay. It was not until several years later (in the early 80's) that I heard the Madison called the "Mud Puppy" by a relation that had rece...