Some Pictures from My Navy Days
Dec 21, 2018 10:04:14 #
tomad wrote:
Great stuff, reminds me of my time in. I was on the USS John F. Kennedy back in the '70s. Wish I had taken a camera with me!
IF I remember right we did the first UnRep with the Kennedy, PIA
Dec 21, 2018 10:11:54 #
jlocke
Loc: Austin, TX
I have some black & white of the Soviet Echo II submarine as it rammed into the port side of the Voge. We were definitely the target that day, although the sub took much more damage than we did. It hit the port quarter and our ship heeled over and the sub slid under the ship and broke some blades off the prop. I've since found a picture on the Internet of the damage to the sub; it was extensive. The sub just punched a hole in a fuel tank, bent our shaft, and broke the prop. We had one sailor injured when he fell off a ladder (stairs) when the sub hit and broke an arm.
Dec 21, 2018 10:14:43 #
I was a “Tincan Sailor” from 1962 to 1966. Thanks for your series. My photos were early Polaroid and they they all turned green. Spent the best 4 years of my life then. Not to many places in the world I haven’t been to.
Dec 21, 2018 10:21:50 #
USN 1958-62. That is a nice set of photos. I spent four years in the Navy and spent 3 1/2 of them in Pensacola Florida. Aviation Machinists Mate. Never got to go to sea and always regretted it.
Dec 21, 2018 10:56:30 #
StevenG
Loc: Long Island, NY
jlocke wrote:
I was in the Navy from 1974-1980, and served on two different ships, the USS Voge (FF-1047) and the USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6). In that time, I made a cruise to the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, two to the Middle East, and several quick jaunts to the Caribbean. I've been going through some of my old photos (mostly 35mm slides), scanning them, and cleaning them up in Lightroom. Here's a few...
Thanks for your service and for the wonderful photos!
Steve
Dec 21, 2018 11:01:00 #
Thanks for your service and for sharing your adventures at sea. We don't usually see many Navy photos like that. I enjoyed looking at yours.
Dec 21, 2018 11:05:15 #
Dec 21, 2018 11:07:03 #
The photo of the rough seas with the chopper onboard reminded why I joined the Army (1966-1992). Thanks for your service as well as thanks to all veterans and the men and women serving our great nation today.
Dec 21, 2018 11:07:19 #
Dec 21, 2018 11:16:05 #
jlocke wrote:
I was in the Navy from 1974-1980, and served on two different ships, the USS Voge (FF-1047) and the USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6). In that time, I made a cruise to the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, two to the Middle East, and several quick jaunts to the Caribbean. I've been going through some of my old photos (mostly 35mm slides), scanning them, and cleaning them up in Lightroom. Here's a few...
Interesting series. My husband and son were in the Navy and served on carriers. (My son on the Carl Vinson CVN70.)
Dec 21, 2018 11:51:04 #
Great photos and great memories of a bygone era. Those take me back to my Navy days, August 1, 1968 to July 31, 1972. I was a corpsman, spent some time with the Marines on land and on the "Gator" ships and later was assigned to one, USS Fort Snelling LSD-30, now decommissioned and turned to scrap. While aboard the Fort, I was asked by the Captain to take a few photos one Sunday morning. Unfortunately I do not have those photos, the Navy kept them. It seems the Captain had never seen Russian Ships "high lining" before and asked me to take a few photos with my SLR and a 400mm lens. Happily I complied, alas the Navy wouldn't let me keep the film. I guess one could say I did my part for espionage during the cold war.
Dec 21, 2018 13:44:43 #
The first thing is,thank you for your service. I love photo like the.
Dec 21, 2018 15:11:45 #
jlocke wrote:
I was in the Navy from 1974-1980, and served on two different ships, the USS Voge (FF-1047) and the USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6). In that time, I made a cruise to the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, two to the Middle East, and several quick jaunts to the Caribbean. I've been going through some of my old photos (mostly 35mm slides), scanning them, and cleaning them up in Lightroom. Here's a few...
Thanks for the memories, USS America CVA-66 1972-76
Dec 21, 2018 15:37:33 #
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