Navy Nuclear Weapons

I'm still trying to find a place to purchase the patch we had for Weapons Department, Cecil Field NAS. Please let me know if you know of a place to but that patch. Thank you and Best Regards, John Bachman

While in JAX for the reunion this year, I tried to find the Yellow Water complex at Cecil Field. We could find any trace that it was ever there. Did we miss a turn or is there nothing left of the complex? Thanks

Dale Herlein, I was with you in 1969 on the Oriskany. At that time I was a GMT2 and I was QC on the DST Building with the Airdales. Glad you are coming to the Reunion in JAX>

Apparently the site certificate for militaryreunionplanners.com issued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority expired Sunday June 16 at 3:24:17, hopefully they are working on recertification

Hi from an USAF nuke maintainer. Saw this article on Clarksville and thought your people might enjoy sone history.
https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/...

Where can I purchase the NAS CECIL FIELD FL WEAPONS patch? Thank you and Best Regards from your OLE Seabee, John

Stationed Weapons Department Aug. 66 to Aug. 67

Hey, folks you aren't yet members of NNWA, we have a reunion coming up in October in Jacksonville. Great chance to reconnect with your shipmates and that very special field we worked in while in the Navy. More details coming up soon on the NNWA website. https://navynucweps.com

Yep. Still around and kicking.

Don, did you get my e-mail?

Don, have photo of W-58 without the flair.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Years to all members of the NNWA!

Randy Scott I also have talked to Delbert Lanning. He has my number if you talk to him again.

I served aboard CV-42 the Roosevelt for a few months before they started the decommissioning and then transfered to CVN-68 the Nimitz in early 77 until I left in june of 80> I have only spoken to one of my shipmate since then Delbert Lanning. All of us have went different ways but I found your site and seen 2 names I recongnized Moran and Bartholmew. Looking forward to seeing others that I served with.

Hello "Chief O'Neal"

Served with you as Pre-comm crew aboard the America CVA-66. Worked as LPO for GMT1 George James in the aft magazines. Your office was right outside the mag doors. LT B.P. Brown was our Div Officer and CDR Gunn was Weps Officer. Skipper was CAPT Heyworth, XO CDR Austen .

Some of the other crew were: Jerry Baldwin, Frank Bianco, CWO Berry, E-9 Martz .

As with all Pre-comm duty, it was arduous and quite dangerous. Notable incidents you may remember: Sitting anchored at Gitmo and getting hit by a damned fruit boat. (Caused serious misalignment to our aft Terrier missile rails.) Going through a violent hurricane on our maiden trip to relieve the FDR, and the hull being lifted out of the water and frying the journals (Couple weeks in the yards at Genoa to fix that. .) Escort destroyer boilers taking green water through the stacks and blowing up a boiler (Killed several and burned many more with live steam. ) Had an A4(?) come up through the belly of an A3J killing 5 or 6.
Had an "Angel" try to lift off the flight deck with a tiedown attached and it rotor-walked off the deck into the Bosphorous Strait where we were anchored in Istanbul. All the aircrew survived.
I still have shin-scars (and hearing loss) from working night-ops up on the flight deck as a Tech Monitor and loading crew member. What with suicides, and pilots diving into the Med, we probably lost 12 or 13 people on our maiden voyage. And--to top it all off-the Rosie dumped oil all over Spain, and of course the entire continent was pissed at the Navy. Being named the America didn't help any either.
There was a demonstration in Taksim Square in Istanbul and they chased the entire Shore Patrol detachment (including me and a LCDR in charge) across the Square where we finally made it into a hotel lobby just as the Turkish mIlitary showed up and opened up with machine guns into a crowd of perhaps 500 people. I saw several (9-10) hit.

As a young E4 this was all high adventure and made great sea story material for the future. Hell, by the time we pulled into Cannes, OTHER things were on our minds. Such as the W-Div party at the Carleton Hotel in Golfe Juan. Things settled down a little after that-and the cruise kind of finished up fairly normal.
I do remember you and Ensign Kegler being assigned to the aft spaces.

Nice to hear from you.

Larry W. Walls GMTC, Ret 1961-1981

Looking for those I served with;
NAVMAG LLL West Loch 80/84
USS Independence CV62 84/87
POMFLANT Charleston 87/90
USS Fulton AS11 90/91
USS Canopus AS32 91/93
Retired from Recruiting duty in 99. Totally miss time spent with friends in the GMT/WT community