Posted on 11/02/2016 7:40:43 PM PDT by reed13k
An active shooter was reportedly on the loose Thursday morning at an American naval base in Japan, the commander of the base confirmed.
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A shooter huh? I wonder if he has any particular religious beliefs.
one of obamas boys?
A beautiful place, was still friendly to Americans back then.
You could pay $2.50 for a bottle of Jack and $4 for a carton of cigarettes on base, take them out to a bar and drink free all week.
Good food and friendly people.
I was out of Yoko for 4 years, but managed to get to Sasebo and Okinawa once each.
Would someone tell us how to pronounce Sasebo?
Sah-Say-Boh
I lived on my own in Osaka and Kyoto as a translator. Had the chance to join the Marines but the recruiter never showed. Took it as a sign and went on my own for five years.
“My best port calls were in Sasebo.”
When I was aboard the USS Enterprise we made a port call there before going on to the South China Sea off Viet Nam. Well, we no sooner left port and then had to head up to the coast off North Korea to be involved in the “Pueblo Incident”. It was very cold up there in Winter.
“My best port calls were in Sasebo.”
what a fine story that is...
sas ee bow
Back in ‘93, I was assigned onboard the USS BLUE RIDGE in Yokosuka, but I got married after bootcamp, and got the USS PELELIU.
Considering what I married back then, I shoulda kept my original orders.
Active Duty ping.
I don’t know why we were there, after multiple Westpacs things get fuzzy...but
I was on the USS Benjamin Stoddert in a Destroyer Group with USS Turner Joy in the north Pacific cruising the strait between Hokkaido and Russia.
We had ice parallel to the waterline the entire length of the ship. It was most pronounced on the superstructure all the way up to the signal bridge and antennas aloft. And that was from salty sea water at 20deg or less.
Gets friggin’ cold up there.
I served on the breadbox know as USS Tarawa
Hokkaido does indeed that’s up the northern part of the isles - Sasebo is down around just north of Nagasaki.
AH! LHA-1
I had a model of that old gray lady.
My father made port call at Sasebo in the fall of 1945. Pretty cool photos of early occupation days are in the scrapbook.
one of our Moslem soldiers?
Can you post a few love to see them
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