Career Navy 1981-2007 O-6 Surface Warfare. USS Tarawa LHA-1, USS Hayler DD-997, USS Pensacola LSD-38 (Desert Shield/Storm, USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71, USS Harlan County LST-1196
Were you an Ensign on the LHA-1 in 1981?
Did you make that Westpac?
I was an RM2 on Tarawa in 1981 and an Ensign introduced me to The Christian Science Monitor...told me it was the most conservative of MSM publications. He was floating in OPS between radio, CIC and Intel.