For you really old guys...
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Topic: For you really old guys...
Posted By: Runner485
Subject: For you really old guys...
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 10:10am
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I posted this on Gentry's board also, figuring I'd get a good recollection of what I'm asking. Not saying all you old guys are suffering from CRS! When I attended sub school in '61 our chow hall was a small
building up on the hill fairly close to our barracks. When I was up in
Groton for a USSVI birthday bash a few years ago, some of us ate in a large, fairly new, it seemed, chow hall which I believe was on the lower base some where. Any of
you guys stationed at Groton after sub school remember a chow hall for
the rest of the base? Where was it??? ------------- DBF Joe SS485,CVA42 Holland Club Mid-Atlantic Base |
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Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 12:35pm
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I went through Sub School later 1963. The chow hall was on the lower base. I don't recall the exact location street wise but it wasn't too far from the Commissary. I think I ate there once. Mostly bagged ass into town or catch the guys making the runs to the local deli's. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: Dr. Stan
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 2:51pm
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I went to sub school in1961 (Section 335, Class 236) and graduated in Sept. I don't remember the chow hall being on the lower base. But, I don't remember it being all that close to the barracks, either. I seem to remember it being sort of at the bottom of the hill and a little way to the east (or left as you are looking down the hill). But it wasn't all the way down to the lower base. ------------- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591 USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base |
Posted By: Bob Gawe
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 4:50pm
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1963 The mess was a short walk from the FBM barracks down the hill but not on the lower base. ------------- Bob Gawe |
Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 6:46pm
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I blew it. It was located at the bottom of the steps leading up the hill to the FBM barracks. Not on the lower base which is what I used to call anything at the bottom of the hill. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: Runner485
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 8:30am
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I remember the steps leading to the chow hall. I was standing in line outside the chow hall when a classmate who was on line inside the hall yelled to me that I had a telegram on my bunk. I new it had to be about my wife having a baby. Sure enough it was. A boy, who is now 57 years old. How did he get so old so fast??  I do remember the the Nuke school being somewhere in the vicinity... ------------- DBF Joe SS485,CVA42 Holland Club Mid-Atlantic Base |
Posted By: Runner485
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 9:55am
Stan, Since you mentioned your class # and date you graduated from Sub School, I had to check mine, which was 235, 335. We graduated the same month in Sept '61. I checked the class photos in USSVI and saw your class. It was listed after mine, but I guess we graduated the same date, which of course I can;t remember. I know I had a two week leave and then reported to Sirago in Norfolk, Va. Damn, were we young. I had just turned 20. The directions to the chow hall you described above is how I remember it too. ------------- DBF Joe SS485,CVA42 Holland Club Mid-Atlantic Base |
Dr. Stan wrote:Posted By: sailor777
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 2:52pm
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the only time I went to the lower base was during duty days and going to the escape tower for evening cleanup. ------------- SPC |
Posted By: Dr. Stan
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2018 at 6:31pm
Yes, Joe, believe it or or not, we were young once . . . and we have the photos to prove it. In the Summer of '61 I was just 18 and been in the Navy for one whole year and was just beginning to learn which way is up. I remember having the graduation photo taken, but I have no idea what date it was taken or the exact date I graduated. I remember many of the faces in the photo, but can't recall a single name. I wish I could. I had orders to the Queenfish in San Diego and stopped at home for a week or so on the way. Qualified in Apr 62. But, since I was a nukiepoo I was soon sent on to Nuke school and eventually the nuke Navy. BTW, thanks to the Navy I finally figured which way was up. Which, ironically, led to my leaving the Navy. But, that's a different tale. ------------- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591 USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base |