Retired USN Chief Petty Officer with 24 years (1982-2006), 15 at sea:

8 years on the West Coast, 14 years in Japan, 2 years on the East Coast. Six of my seven ships were amphibs.

Together We Served

Married 15 years with 2 boys

Fred Boyer is dressed in a white shirt with nankeen collar, and blue trousers, and has in his hand a black tarpaulin hat. His portrait was painted by Flagg - a brother of the commander by that name - while Boyer was a quartermaster on board the receiving ship Ohio in Boston somewhere about 1840-45. His character is best told by the description under his portrait, 'Twenty years in the Navy. Never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty.'".

Chief Quartermaster John P. Overholt taking a sun sighting with a sextant from the ship's navigating bridge. Taken circa 6 March 1945, during the Iwo Jima operation. Taking notes on the observations is Quartermaster Third Class Clark R. Bartholomew.

60 years later celestial navigation is a dying art, being slowly strangled by GPS, but some of us can still do it.

create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Here's places I've hit the beach-I've seen many others from the ship.

create your own visited states map

Airports only don't count-but add CO and GA if you think they do.

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