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Carol66

If you survived 6 weeks doing anything at Quantico......GOOD JOB! Anything "Marine" is tough! :)

racoonstar

@Carol66 - especially during the Viet Nam era, I know that the publicly released information often glossed over the reality of what was happening. So I trust your recollections of what happened, both what you saw and heard, and not the official information.

I did not serve. I was too young for Viet Nam.
I did sign up for the US Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class while attending Cal State LA, and did spend 6 weeks one summer sliding around in the red clay of OCS in Quantico, Virginia.
Unfortunately, I dropped out of college the next year so never completed PLC and was never active duty.

racoonstar

@Carol66 - I had to look that place up, so no. ;)

I've been to Hawaii a couple of times, Anchorage, Alaska once, a couple of places in Canada, once to Baja California, once to London, England, and a cruise out of Miami that stopped in Cozumel, Mexico.

I'd love to visit France, Germany, and Scotland. :)

Thank as well.

longnwater

Carol66 , Racoonstar and Ianto I salute you guys

racoonstar

@Carol66 - I read through the article again, and through a couple of the links at the end of the article, but there's only one reference I found about arriving at Cubi Point:

"On 31 July, Forrestal arrived at Naval Air Station Cubi Point in the Philippines, to undertake repairs sufficient to allow the ship to return to the United States."

The only mention of escorts was in the section about fighting the fire, where two destroyers came in close to use their fire fighting hoses to help with the fires. But that was long before they arrived at Cubi Point. It is possible that one or both of the destroyers escorted her in.

"The destroyer USS George K. MacKenzie pulled men from the water and directed its fire hoses on the burning ship. Another destroyer, USS Rupertus, maneuvered as close as 20 feet (6.1 m) to Forrestal for 90 minutes, directing her own on-board fire hoses at the burning flight and hangar deck on the starboard side, and at the port-side aft 5-inch gun mount."

True it is both these days. I am glad that there are others like us out there.

racoonstar

@Carol66 -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire

There were several A-4 Skyhawks on deck, one of which was manned by John McCain at the time of the incident. He exited his aircraft and escaped injury.

"The fire left 134 men dead and 161 more injured. It was the worst loss of life on a U.S. Navy ship since World War II. Of the 73 aircraft aboard the carrier, 21 were destroyed and 40 were damaged.

Twenty-one aircraft were stricken from naval inventory: seven F-4B Phantom IIs, eleven A-4E Skyhawks, and three RA-5C Vigilantes."

I am an ex- navy wife. He was in submarines, in the early 1990.

longnwater

they didn't when I was on there Carol but then I don't remember alot , so busy with the F4's and the 500lbers onboard and thank you all glad to have served thanks Ianto and Racoonstar

racoonstar

Thank you for your service!

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longnwater

thanks I ware them more than my cowboy hat any more lol

Love the hats.

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