DD-835 (my first ship)
Newport 1977, my first view of the ship
USS Charles P Cecil
835 Bridge
Cecil pilot house, stood my share of helm and lee helm watches
Self Portrait @1978
Probobly after dinner, waiting for the sun to set
Cecil wake
AN SQS 23F
Remnants of an SQS-23, in my basement office
STG2 Dan Barrow and STGCS John Barone
MK 53 Attack Console
Big Greeny
Barrow and Chief Dean
Barrow and Durrin
Fox Division 1976 77 FR – Frank, Painter, Carl, Rials, Premo, Chief Dean. BR – Barrow, Channel, Durrin, Sloan, Tyler, Brown, Kohl…
Barrow in sonar equipment room
GMT2 David “Billy” Premo
Senior Chief GM Kenneth W Dean / O’Bastard
Christmas wrapping
GMT2 David Premo and me, painting the torpedo deck
Asroc Loader, blast deflector on Asroc
Asroc shack
Asroc (warshots)
Asroc Mag, Mk 46 and Asroc
USS Forrestal CV – 59
Thick Soup
Darrel Koll GMTSN
Fog
Now bury the dead
P3 in bangor Maine (one of my many Mac flights)
DD-850 Chowline @ 2017
DD-850 Chowline @ 2017
DD-850 Mess, looking aft portside @ 2017
DD-850 Messdecks @ 2017
DD-850 mess, Looking aft @ 2017
DD-850 scullery @ 2017
DD 835
Dyess
Forrestal
F-14
flight ops, I was a member of the helo crash team
Edson
Entering NY Harbor, phone talker sea and anchor
GONZO
hanging in our equipment room
Fox Berthing on DD-850 @ 2017
hanging on a 5″ barrel
Myles C Fox
Heavy Seas
Roll to port
Heavy Seas North Atlantic
last of the greyhounds
UNREP
USS Ohio SSBN 726
Lafayette SSBN 616
B-52 FLY BY
with the brand new Sprunace
At Anchor
liberty boat
Mayport, DESRON 28 in a nest
Sea and Anchor
Tied up Rosie Roads
DD-850 Fox Berthing @ 2017
Mike Baker
Fox division berthing, top center is my rack
Dear Tom letter
DD-850 Fox ladder @ 2017
Taylor, Block, Dobbins, Channel, Durrin, Vincent
Bruce Dobbins
Gonzo, Channel and me
What Sign?
the mighty Barrow
Dan Barrow and I, @ 2008, Chicago
Taken by Chief Dean @1977
Taking a break from sonar after an Asroc launch
Sunset
gun director
MT 51 (ship and photographer unknown)
MT 51 upper handling room
Coming up from the upper handling room
52 Firing
MT 52
Me and the Cecil
plane guard duty
portside mk 32
MK 46 mod 2
New Tubes, Dobbins, Tyler
MK 46 recovery
SKC “Blackie” Bechard and STG2 Durrin
Forrestal and Saratoga, Mayport Naval Base
Naval Air Power F-14, A6, Corsair and Crusader
William R Rush
on the fantail
North Atlantic
Cecil rides the waves (photographer unknown)
Jesse L Brown
Vogelsang
USS Damato DD-871
signal bridge
signal bridge
Cobb, Lastuck and Barrow
STG2 Matt Durrin
Lines 4,5 and 6 Barrow, Kohl, Nicklau, Aubry, Tyler and Nugent
Ken Tyler
POW of the watch
Raising the flagstaff
Peterson, Byers..
Stern view
photo taken by Soviet sailor
Forrestal
Taken from a P3 orion (mac flight)
waiting for unrep
unrep
Unrep Buck Byers and JJ Morabito
wake of the Cecil
Mike Warden
Gonzo – Clay Lastuck and me
Dress Ship… (photographer unknown)
De-Comm ushers
De-Comm ceremony
STG3 Block Decomm
USS Charles P Cecil DD-835
former Cecil, Greek Apostolis – Asroc launch
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