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When I left Rowan I was transferred to Fleet Sonar School in San Diego to attend class on the latest sonar system. I had a career long wish to be in
the submarine service and was successful in talking my detailer into changing me over to attend a submarine sonar maintenance course. From there I was transferred to an the George Washington Carver (SSBN656). Can
you imagine a CPO reporting aboard a submarine having never served on one. Anyway, I qualified for my dolphins on my first patrol. After leaving Carver (five patrols of 105 days each), I reporter to submarine
school, New London for shore duty. I retired in August 1977 and immediately went to work for General Motors as a skilled trades electrician. I stayed there a couple of years, fired my wife, and started work in
management for a small regional airline. I worked in that job almost 10 years and then the company went bankrupt. From there I went to work for the postal service and retired from that job in 2004.
My wife and I currently live in Columbia, Missouri. She is a retired school teacher and currently works full time for State Farm Insurance. I am semi
retired and work part time for Bass Pro Shops.
I will try to find some pictures and send them to you.
You are so right. Shipmates are forever. Especially what we went through at Haiphong harbor that night. I was in sonar right behind CIC and was doing the
aiming for the Shrike missiles.
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