WOW - was an amazing journey for a young sailor! I met the ship in Guam - went to Japan and hit that side - went thru Panama Canal - and the other side!

I would like to propose the USNS Sgt. George D. Keathley (T-AGS 35) be added among the ships that were operated under the US Navy Oceanographic Office.

During my time as a Geophysist
with NAVOCEANO, the Keathley had a proud record of surveying in the North Atlantic region and contributed significantly to the Nations' defense program during the Cold War period.

What a great tour of duty. Enjoyed every day on board and had the time of my life when we pulled into port. Can't forget Mr. Bill great guy and was an awesome friend. Had a blast going thru Shellback Initiation. Would have done 30 years on board if possible but had to go to the Casimir Pulaski SSBN 633 Gold. Anyone still around, feel free to reach out.

ET(N)-3 (SS), Navigation ET (3339) - LORAN-C; NAVSAT/BRN-3 and various miscellaneous time standards and time keeping devices.

First off, nice website. Well done!

I was the classic underachiever of the vaunted "Silent Service"--drafted in 1967; I ran for the Navy/Air Force and a field that would keep me away from SE Asia. I was lucky to find the US Navy and made nine (9) deterrent patrols and then got out. I did my job well and somewhat enjoyed it, but "making rate" wasn't my top priority. What they taught me was put to use in the 80s, 90s, 2000s building computer networks LANs, WANs, MANs, et. al.

Along the way, TAGS ships and their missions were often discussed among us NavCenter watch standers during the seemingly endless hours of making sure our SINS didn't run off the plot page and we could meet the position requirements of the next WSRT. We marveled at how much accuracy and detail the systems that we ran (and y'all made possible and viable) were. I ran into one TAGS sailor in New London during some refresher training and his description of your mission made me wish I'd been assigned to a TAGS ship instead of a submarine... oh well.

Thank you for the website. A fun trip down memory lane from a user and benefactor of your efforts.

Communicated from NCS Londonderry via encrypted to these ships as well as MERCAST broadcast Morse code.

As always, just passing through.

My father served as an Army chaplain on board the Waterbury Victory at the close of WW2. I've run across some of his snapshots taken around the deck. He passed circa 2004, but shared with me stories of holding Protestant services on board for the German POWs, and I inherited his pocket German-English/English-German dictionary. Shall I scan some of these old pix and send them in? v/r, Don F. Gibson, Fripp Island, SC.

I was a Navigation ET straight out of C school in Damneck VA. I served a year on board surveying the Pacific, porting in Honolulu. It was a great tour of duty.

A Pleasure to Serve with some Great Minds

ET3(SS) SINS Tech reported from USS George Washington Carver SSBN-656 (Gold) for my last year in active USN.

Great times, great crew, fantastic port calls! Pearl, Ditch, Curacao (very tough to take for 17 days!) , Shellback and Rio De Janiro.