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The internet, along with our FREE one year membership plan has been largely responsible for this explosion in our numbers and we are very pleased. Our membership is now approaching 650 members. What a year this has been for the Sonar Association. What I've Been Up To: A hearty Hello to all of you who served in the greatest rate in the Navy. I miss you all.Ĭurrently Located In: San Francisco Bay area, CA
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I do have some pictures available for anyone that would like to see them.Īnyway, hope to hear from some old friends. And if you made the last one with my in 79 you definitely remember the band WARSHIP. It's nice to stumble across a place such as this, especially during the free part, because so much of my growing up was centered around the NAVY and the great rate of SONARMAN.ĭepending upon which one of the WESTPACs you might have made on the Rat, yuo may have known me as "Whimpy Burgermeister", "Dirtball" or "Hersh". 6 years later I moved to New Jersey, became a coffeehouse guitar player/singer/songwriter, had a couple of kids, got divorced and now live on my own in a 24 foot travel trailer in a campground out in the pinelands. That's right, I kept turning down my orders to stay in Hawaii, dumb huh? Anyway, 4 WESTPACs and 1 drydock later I left for civilian life in San Diego where I took up a career as stand-up comedian. I went to school in San Diego in 74-75 and then sent to the USS Rathburne (DE/FF-1057) for the next 5 years. What I've Been Up To: Hi, well, I don't know where to start. I hope some of my shipmates see this and respond. Being a principal is almost as fun, exciting and meaningful as was being in the navy and working with the greatest group of men I've had the pleasure to work with. I'm now an elementary school principal with the Bakersfield City School District. I went to college on the GI Bill and became a jr. I made one Blue Crew patrol on her, and decided to get out of the navy. Very exciting! I shipped over for two years and was sent to Groton, Connecticut for new construction aboard the Nathan Hale. We were the first missile boat to pull into Holy Loch, Scotland, back in the days of Bertrand Russell. We set a submergence record of 68 days, 22 hours on our first patrol. I was a member of the Blue Crew on the Patrick Henry, making the first four Blue Crew patrols. What I've Been Up To: I'm looking for shipmates who served on the USS McDermut DD677 in l959, the USS Patrick Henry SSB(N)599 from 1960 to 1964 (especially Dick Ross, SO1 (SS)and Ed Tshudy, EM2 (SS)), and the USS Nathan Hale SSB(N)623 from 1960 to 1962 (especially Hank Grannis, SO2 (SS) and Mark Latta, RM 2 (SS)).