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Ping: Greg
On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:14:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: My oldest grandson is in his 6th week of US Coast Guard boot camp. He just called home with news of his first duty station: http://navaltoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/USCGC-Tahoma-Back-in-Portsmouth-Homeport.jpg Way cool. That is a step up from my first cutter https://www.semperparatus.com/images...o_jan1967..jpg "Charley" (weather station) in Nov Dec 65 was fun ;-) What is he planning on doing? I went to school before I went to sea. |
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Ping: Greg
On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:48:07 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 11/18/2016 8:32 PM, wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:14:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: My oldest grandson is in his 6th week of US Coast Guard boot camp. He just called home with news of his first duty station: http://navaltoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/USCGC-Tahoma-Back-in-Portsmouth-Homeport.jpg Way cool. That is a step up from my first cutter https://www.semperparatus.com/images...o_jan1967..jpg "Charley" (weather station) in Nov Dec 65 was fun ;-) What is he planning on doing? I went to school before I went to sea. Things have changed in the Coast Guard. You now qualify for schools before signing up but you have to spend about a year at a duty station after boot camp before attending the schools. He will be going to an electrical type school (forget which one exactly) but I think it is similar to the Navy's "EM" or "electrician's mate" school. Whoops. I guess it must now be "electrician's person" school. When I was there it WAS a navy school. I was an FT or FTG in navy terms (guns). (Bainbridge NTC) The CG did not have missiles. That cutter does have a 5"54 automated mount. We had the old WWII era 5"38. (Hydraulic) manual loading. |
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