, Because i joined the military fleet on the eve of columbus, 1960, it was only appropriate that i told samner on july fourth 1961 patriotism on the emerging paths. The ship occupied military shipyards, charleston, south carolina, was converted and taken into naked metal. I started the authorization procedure and various officers signed my newspaper up to the captain s (porterfield) recklessly. Without reading his data on the door, i asked him to sign the paper. He said that i am several of the tourists who are forced to sign this. I said, but the captain said, to receive everyone. Well, i'm the captain, he said. The boy was embarrassed. I installed my payment entry, went to bear bay in my ear and spent about three quarters of an hour there. Then i sat down on the bus back to the barracks (the ship was in a dry dock, and not a single person lives on board).
From: randy yoast (sfm3 66-68) i continued the active service on september 28, 1966. I went to charleston, south carolina, and received my orders to report on board the uss alen m. Sumner in mayport, florida. I was sffn assigned to the shipfitter sports shop. I was with us for two to four weeks when mm1 bobby moore asked yoast. I was taken to the forward, where moore told me that firefighters would become my new home. I was not happy, being in fire fire. I really liked to work with bt1 bell, ed izzi & ant orly of bang. I left the navy on september 28, 1968, finally creating the 3rd shipfitter class and was appointed to the shipfitter store. On board the uss allen m. Sumner was in february 1964, i am saying the first official, because my actual first day on board was a couple of years ago in january 1957. You see that on this cold day in january, my father took us with the children to visit the old destroyer of the world war ii navy, which was exhibited at the old military court in washington, which was sent to wave the flag for the inauguration of the recently elected president the united states dwight d. Eisenhower. Despite the fact that i was an enthusiastic teenager for only 13 years, i was still glad to visit this old tin can, because from an early age i knew that one day i would join the fleet, and i wanted to see what was for me in the store, when someone grows and becomes hypnotized television shows, such as victory in the sea and silent service and cannot wait from a week a week for the next show in the series is only natural that the excitement that feels is almost too much to understand. So, on this cold windy day in washington, the district of colombia, we all invest in the old station wagon ford and go to the ship. I remember this, as if it were only yesterday, walking around the aisle and perceiving all the sights and sounds of this big impressive ship on which i was now standing. Yes, it seemed great to us, because none of us, with the exception of my father, have never seen the ship as large, except in films or on television. I remember how i rose around that i would have learned like mount 3, and then going forward by passing by a galley, where they prepared what i would later call a fried beast for the crew. Oh, the smell was wonderful and prepared so much in one and the largest oven, which i saw when i saw. I thought to myself that this is one oven, which my mother would like to have, since she had to cook for 9 children, and the oven of this size would surely facilitate her day. I remember how my mom and dad took a lot of pictures with the old brownie camera. This, of course, was one of the most striking moments of my first years. I remember how my father, and i were that i really joined, and how sad my mother was that i left the nest. After a short stay in the u.S. Military fleet in great -litee, he was outside the bainbridge, maryland, for several weeks at the radioman class a. School, my dream sheet ended and surrendered, i returned to the rutin of the school, wondering where i was going to send me a fleet. To my great surprise, they sent me exactly where i wanted to go, a ship in florida. At that moment when i went to the quarter of this ship, i had a really strange feeling that i was here before. For some unknown reason at that time i knew where everything was on this ship, i was sure that i had never seen before. Everything, at least on the main deck, looked so familiar. This was not until 6 months later, when i visited my family in washington and looked at some old family photos, which i realized that the ship i was now was the same ship that my father took the family to visit this cold and windy january, 4 years ago.Of all the ships and coastal stations at which i was in those years, i will always love to recall that my best tour was on this destroyer of the second world war, which so contributed to the help of a young boy to turn into a man.
from: george strogel (bt2 49-52) after the training camp (january 1949) i was contained in the osu for su weeks are at the disorder, while everyone else in the company was sent to the service in another place, so that the lost mark of all my friends with whom i went through the school camp. I was also very discouraged about this. But, as it says, there is a silver lining for each dark cloud, and this silver lining was the fact that i would never be appointed samner if this had not happened. When i left osu, i and 40 other shoes were placed on a train from the great lakes to a dignity of diego with a task for collecting a cruiser of auckland. What an adventure that was, no one was responsible, neither an officer, even in nco, one boot had all the notes for all of us. We had one car for ourselves, and we should not communicate with other passengers on the train, but who was there to stop us, so we completely ignored this rule, in fact, i spent more time on the rest of the train than me in the car i was appointed, these were 2 surveillance cars, which some of us simultaneously took advantage of to see the impressive landscapes offered by one traveled in the country by rail in the rocky mountains. I remember that we had several hours in denver and solta -loik -city, where we mixed with the citizens of these https://subzero-cove-wolf.com/contacts two cities. We got to the state of nevada and ran into a terrible blizzard, for some reason for some reason, stuck in the snow or for some other reason, the snow drifted and settled under each car, and when the train began to move in connection between the locomotive and the first passenger car broke. The locomotive was a pair of hundreds from the rest of the train and stuck, so we were in a difficult position without heat. It was a real old -fashioned western small little one with a screaming wind and snow snow. We were there for 4 days. The storm extended in 3 days, but it took another day to plow the snow, so that another train could bring us a work team. We ended with food on the second day, with the exception of dried eggs and for some reason (we heard that it was in the contract that the military fleet had with the railway company), they fed us, and not the civilians, which they are that they were they were indignant, and led to some difficult feelings between passengers and the train team. We gave our rations to some of the elderly and children. Naturally, none of the passengers, except for us, sailors, had warm clothes, so we opened our sea bags and gave the elderly our blankets and pea coats. I remember how i ran in place to warm up, i don’t know for sure, but, i believe, it was only a few degrees above zero. Some of the passengers became crazy and thought that they were going to go out like a donner party. When the storm finally ended, and the working team arrived, each car should have been torn manually, as the snow drifted and packed under them, they released shovels and ordered the passengers to help, but did not allow the sailors, which led to another confrontation between some passengers and railway officials, we, sailors, challenged railway officials, took away shovels from passengers and still helped. We finally started, and a few hours later we drove into renault nevada, where shops were replenished, and everyone was fed in a neighboring restaurant. This four -day delay forced us to miss the ship, it began for a cruise to china. It was late at night, when we arrived at the dignity of diego, and they ordered cooks and riots prepared food for us, and this also caused a lot of resentment. After eating among officers, employees were discussed as with us, since our orders were to go aboard the oder, and he was in the sea on the way to china. Finally, one of the officers said that they put them on the bus, take them to the ship and see if they can take some of these recruits, we went through this routine from one ship to another, until all 40 of us were assigned to the ship . Sumner took 5 or 6 of us, and this is how i became a member of the samner crew. I stayed on board until the end of my career in the navy, and it was a real adventure. I consider myself very lucky. Samner was not found anywhere. I went aboard yellowstone. Here i was told that my ship was in gitmo. What is gitmo? It was cold in the mayport, and the blues and the pavlin’s qualities were an order of the day. I was told that they were going to deliver me to gitmo to pick up my ship. Again, what is gitmo? Now they said that gitmo was a bay of guantanamo, cuba.Now i was only 18 years old, and i did not see most of the world, and was the first to admit that i knew little, but cuba was a communist country! Why was my ship there and more important, why they sent me there! Jacks left us at 00 something at an early stage on the plane "c". When we arrived in gitmo, it was a pleasant 80 degrees, only the weather for the dress -banter. Of course, my white ones were at the bottom of my package of the sea. On that day, about 1700, sumner entered the port. I remember the deck processing the lines and saw all the battles on her bridge. My ship! I do not think that since then i have been proud of something. Sumner has become the best time and worst times. We loved her and hated her. But she was our ship, and no one was better!
From: bill orc (qm3 70-73) april 8, 1970 was my first day. I was the 10th or 12th qm on a destroyer, in which only 4-5 qm should be. After i sat down in joman’s office, i informed cart's room. I was told that there were no beds or cabinets from the crew of an oversized size. I lived from my bag and slept wherever i could find a bed that would be empty at night. After about two weeks, i got a locker and was still looking for an empty bed. In general, i was lucky, no real hazing and newcomers, but i quickly found out what the "duty fish" meant. Thanks to everyone who helped to make my first few days easier. I came aboard with merton mahoni. We both went together in a training camp in great -leix, illinois (different companies, the same barracks). We were on board only a few hours when we received our freedom cards. We thought that the best way to see norfolk is just to drink one beer in each bar. In the end, how many bars can be. You never know. I remember that we found ourselves in the “trade winds”, where sps “told the mahsi a couple of times to walk around the quarter (after i threw it on my shoulder), when i was in the men's room, pukin was about to die and promise god if i i will not die, i will never drink again. Welcome to norfolk, virginia. One of my friends just returned from a three -year clue, so i applied for his advice on what duty to look. I told him that i want to travel and see a lot of peace. His answer was emphasized: "get a tin jar." So, i registered, went to the training camp in bainbridge, maryland, and when i finished studying at the eta school, i was offered a choice from several workpieces, including foreign and internal coastal duties, combat wagons, sub -school, etc. I chose allen m. Sumner dd-692 from other options for a destroyer for no particular reason. Just a hunch. What a good choice he turned out to be. When i received an order to report on board on board the dd-692, i was ordered to report no later than 2400 on monday. The teacher at great lakes informed me that the ship would probably be at sea, and i could temporarily serve in the north. For “return to friday”), since the operations from the wiring of virginia and the cape -khatteras were an ordinary weekly routine. Not wanting to miss one moment of this excitement, i reported on duty 24 hours earlier, to a large summary and entertainment o.D for a quarter. When i greeted the colors and asked for permission on board, i gave way to et1, which, with a bag on the sea over the shoulder and a bag in my hand, hastily left the court. “Having left the care,” i suggested. “No, transferred to the coastal service,” he answered joyfully. My pier shown, i was largely in the dark, until i gathered in 0800 the next morning. I found that the departure of et1 was the leading et, and i had to take his position as etsn. The et crew balance consisted of a reservist whose technical background consisted of television and radio -bound repairs, and two ojt trains from a deck gang. I met ltjg haley, who served as a communications officer and was an excellent product of annapolis, indeed an officer and a gentleman. Thus, almost two -year on board on board ams began. It took some time to get my sea legs, and since the ets was in essence 24/7, we were not assigned ordinary watches. I quickly found out that frequent sleep interruptions were about the day. Redonal relayers and communication equipment were abundant, and since these were vacuum tubes, frequent malfunctions were expected and experienced. There was a slight tolerance for delays in servicing this equipment. It became survival to transfer my sleeping rooms to emergency radioleleuju, which was adjacent to et shack. Instead of disturbing a dream of 30 or 40 people who shared my place, i was the only one who woke up on the call of the sound phone. This place was quieter, more private and within the limits of light reach from the bridge. One of the significant advantages was that i could join between the set of engine generator and the hf transmitter, creating a stable position against the rolls.The disadvantage was that whenever the ship came across heavy weather (which was almost every week outside cape hutters), and the ships of the ship exceeded about 30 degrees, test equipment, tools and service guides that were on the working benches or on anyone who slept on this piece of real estate. One night, the mill (machine), which was located on the table next to the transmitter, fell on my head. In those days they were heavy cars. Speaking about rolls ... Once, when i monitored the iff equipment in cic, and the ship was experiencing several heavy seas, the captain asked me to control the intriguers and inform about the shifts of the ship and on its ongoing basis. By the same, there is some critical angle of the roll for each vessel, behind which it will not be corrected, and (the word was) will invert. For ams class, this angle is considered to be about 56 degrees. When i watched the incident swayed from time to time up to 45 degrees, i became quite nervous. At some moment, the roll exceeded 50 degrees to the port, and the movement seemed to stop at what seemed an eternity before the ship finally rose and turned to the right side. Once, walking along the main deck, straight ahead of et shack, i noticed a wide rubber strip on an external bulkhead, which ran up to level o1 from the deck. When i asked one of the guys what it was, he replied that it was an expansion seam to adapt the tension of the gross seas on the case. He said that some destroyers who preceded the samner class (pre ww2 construction) did not include such seams, and sometimes cut through two in the midst of a typhoon. It was interesting to observe how this seams expand and narrow in severe weather. I quickly recovered with all the procedures, compositions and exercises, and got a job for two years of wishes, traveling in distant places and having a wonderful experience, as my friend promised.
From: bobby moore (mmc 61-69) exciting times for me on board the greatest dd in the navy- 30 years i had a small part, 8 years old. 1 month. 3 days. I met samner when she was at the shipyard of charleston, who suffered fram. I was on the basis of the basis, waiting for further transfer, being in civilian life within 1 year and 2 months. Around the first of november, my orders came. The orders were for uss allen m. Sumner (dd-692) in mayport, florida. But i already saw samner in the yards. Finally, i convinced that yomen was in the yard, and if she postpones my orders for two weeks, i would buy her steak -rang on p.O. Club, and it happened. I had no desire to collect all these things together. After another steak dinner, she gave me my orders to samner to inform him on board on november 16, 1961. After the message on board, around 0900, btc dicks had a quarter of the deck, he forced me to find a bed in the engineer’s department and inform him. Later i found out that my bed was where kamikadze landed. After the storage of my equipment that i informed the leader dix, he told me: “you are the first to cross on board, the“ duty ”section will be on board later today, and the rest of the team tomorrow is also going to have evaporators tomorrow. They are. Your children, i like the shower, and my boilers need water, let it be your guide. ” He was pretty right to such an extent. After the full overhaul of evaporators and other tests, we did not do what the sailors should do, the sail! Late in the evening in august, where she was outside the dry dock in charleston, s.S. It was on saturday, so the quarter clock checked my orders, installed me and said: "see you on monday, the child." Being just outside the school camp, i was shocked by all freedom. So, as a mature 18 -year -old naval fleet, i left the gates of the shipyard in search of influence in my blues! Keep in mind, it was august, and i just left my orders for the quarter! After several varieties of beer, i seemed to be in a club in the company of several women who seemed very glad to see me. I never knew that i got into the “house of bad reputation”, and during the entrance i was noticed by the coastal patrol because i was in blues. The coastal patrol was good enough to return me to the ship and bring me a quarter to myself, i just left 45 minutes before! They just looked at me in complete amazement and said: “the butkamp, which you were in the fleet for less than an hour, and you managed to distinguish yourself outside the beliefs, i will tell you that, continue, and you will never do it! Now hit the rack, and maybe i will forget about it if you are lucky! "Nobody ever mentioned me anything! I say, because there was a group of us, just outside the school camp. We were all fa, ready to sit on uss alllen m sumner dd-692. One problem that the ship was not in charleston , he was in the sea. Thus, my colleagues are breeding and i was sent to uss everglades for tdy.The other comrades were john bowman, greg zadou, jerry curtis, hasinto burgos and i am bob kelly. It is unnecessary to say that we were all a little disappointed that day. We finished the fact that we spent 4 weeks on a tender until sumner arrived. On the day when she came to the port, the powers that will be sent to us to the north to a military station to meet her. Only after a two -hour bus trip, she had already gone and returned to the shipyard of charleston. After we expected a couple more hours by bus, we finally started collecting our new house. The place where i would spend the next three and a half years.
From: rick billings (bm3 70-73) it was march 1970. I have just made up the usa. Lus dlg-7 and was on board her only less than