That's me at 21 or 22 aboard the USS Iredell County, LST-839
Hello Captain? Turn this ship around and take us to Yokosuka Japan.
Damn, you sailors were a buncha' long haired hippie freaks! {grin}
Posted by: Quinn on July 24, 2004 08:55 PMDoesn't Saturday Boobage usually show more than one boob?
Posted by: Bobbert on July 24, 2004 10:15 PMOops. My {grin} didn't show up on my post. Sorry.
Posted by: Bobbert on July 24, 2004 10:18 PMI remember those days -
uniforms ironed the wrong way -
long weekends bartending and fixin fence
good friends and great times -
those are the memories
Ahhhhh, so young! So Fresh!
I have somewhat exactly the same pic from my Marine Corps days. I was in the USMC at 17, killing folks in Nam @ 18, and out by 20. Threw a half-pint of Jack Daniels into the showcase behind a Chicago bar that would not serve a Veteran when I returned. They called the cops, I ran.
Was so screwed up in Viet Nam that I had to re-enlist in USAF a year later. 35+ years later, I'm a college professor.
Your picture brings back the fonder memories.
Ya had to say 'over', right?
Posted by: Dan S on July 25, 2004 03:09 AMMy Navy son just finished his 4-year hitch on an FFG at 22.
Thanks to his Mother's prayers, USS Curts (FFG-38) was always going the opposite way of world-events.
Thanks to VoIP, I have a pic-capture that is strikingly-like yours that originated in Brisbane, Australia.
Thanks to you ... for firing dead brain-cells!
"Over"
Posted by: Dan S on July 25, 2004 03:28 AMYokosuka Japan???I was homeported for 3 years in Yokosuka Japan. How about turn this sucker around and go back to Subic Bay or Pattaya Beach? ;-) damn hippies!
Posted by: doc on July 26, 2004 04:44 PMHell yeah! Catch the red-line jeepney out to the barrio and party all night long.
Posted by: Rey on July 26, 2004 07:54 PMYokosuka was much cleaner than Subic. I also thought that Japanese women were prettier than Filipinos. And up until 1969 you couldn't leave Olongapo City. But Subic was cheaper.
Posted by: Denny Wilson on July 26, 2004 08:44 PM