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The following is an email from RD3 Michael McElroy who served aboard the Prime 66 - 68. He mentioned the beach party we had in DaNang in 67. He has some pictures of it I hope he finds them soon.
Paul,
Thanks for the update. I went back to the
Ship's history section for '67. It states that we were in Da Nang
on 26 Mar 67 and 5-8 May 67. I bet that period in May is when we
had that beach party we've talked about. Boy, that Jerry is just a
wealth of information.
besides the "uniform of the day" the thing I
remember the most about that day was when some of us were standing
around the fantail a little while after we had crossed the line, a
snipe (FN or FA, I don't remember who) came back and was looking all
around. It went something like this:
Snipe: Damn I missed it!
Us: Missed what?
Snipe: The International Date Line.
Us: You should have seen it. It was a
beautiful golden line as far as you could see. Yeah, and there were
these beautiful golden marker buoys. We even painted one.
Snipe: (deeply disappointed) I was on watch
in the engine room. So I didn't get to see it.
Us: Don't worry, we'll see it again on the
way back.
Snipe: Oh yeah!
With that he walked back toward the messdeck
grinning from ear to ear.
If I recall, we volunteered to extend our
deployment to go on a Minex in Australia, but of course, it never
happened. thus no crossing the Equator.
Mike
San Diego 89NM and 40 years from Pier 9
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