I was in the Navy from September 1974 to September 1980. I was an ET in the Advanced Electronics
Program so I spent the first two years in school. My primary job was the Mk3 Mod6 SINS. I was all set for submarine duty when I "volunteered"
for the Bowditch. I spent two years on the Bowditch, great duty. My last two years were on the USS Dixon AS-37, a sub tender (sub school came in good for something).
While on board the Bowditch I maintained the SINS, EM logs (we had no IC man) and the SASS (well, "Frog", the GI rep, kept the SASS running).
I was an NIC and sonar watch stander. I ended up as a survey control watch stander, running the plot. The one thing that stands out in my mind was
how often we lost power and had to pull the maggie in by hand before they could start the prop shaft up again. That was fun, in February, in the North Atlantic!
Our XO Bruce Northridge was getting off at the end of the cruise so ...we stole his door.
The guilty parties are as follows:
Kneeling (left to right) is Neil Schmidt and Bill James, with the screwdriver.
Standing behind Neil is Kevin Hoostal, myself, Tom Pusateri and Craig Cochrane.
Bruce, if you're seeing this picture, we hid the door in the bilge under Hydroplot!
A group picture created as a going away gift to the outgoing CO Kirk Evans. Each of us is in a "typical" pos
Bowditch at Sea |
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Ashore in the U. K. |
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