[Diver Dave]

Welcome aboard GATOR NAVY from an OLD Navy vet.

How old you ask?

Let me put it this way. I was the third oarsman, second deck, starboard side.

Do have fond memories of time spent in Japan. Wonderful people and wonderful country.

[GATOR NAVY]

Well I haven't around quite that long, but last week the base CO threw me for a loop when he doing a reenlistment for a sailor in my detachment (we don't have any officers ourselves). He was telling us how much the Navy had changed since he came in in 1972 and then he looked at me and said "and you probably came in about the same time, right Chief?" Uh, not quite, sir...10 years later actually. Didn't know I looked that old.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Let me put it this way. I was the third oarsman, second deck, starboard side."

Gee, talk about easy duty! We had to use our hands to row the ship.
The XO said the oars were to be kept shined and polished in case Captain John Paul Jones came aboard. LOL