| USS Vreeland Log , August 2002 |
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| Name : Curtis Norman |
9 Aug 2002
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| Rate/Rank : YNCS(SS/SW)
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| Years Onboard : 06/88-12/91 |
| e-mail : curtis.norman@hq.transcom.mil |
| Comments : I got very excited when I found the Mighty Vern web site. My wife Gina and with our four children are still going strong in the Navy and just recently visited Larry (YN3(SW) at the time) & Lisa Mattox who was also a Vreeland sailor. This was no short trip since we live in Dupo, IL and Larry and Lisa live in Boron, CA. HOWEVER, does show why this website and all of us are still live-long friends. And we are talking to CTI1 Larry D. Bates and Ginnie now stationed at NTC Great Lakes as a CC, on the Vreeland he was a BT3(SW) and only 5 hours away, Dewayne we will see you soon. The VREELAND has put allot of people together that will never grow apart. I have went on to be a Senior Chief Petty Officer from the training and experience I gained on the USS VREELAND (FF 1068). I have never been stationed onboard a ship since I have left the VREELAND but did volunteer and joined the submarine service and rode the USS OKLAHOMA CITY (SSN 723) and the USS Baltimore (SSN 703) I also qualified Submarine Service (SS). But in doing so, I still to this day remember my
earning Enlisted Service Warfare Specialist (ESWS) onboard the Vern!. I can still draw Aux 1 and the bioler plant. People off the Vreeland I remember, this text box isn't big enough but I will start. PNC(SW) Rubin H. Jackson til this day I still remember, use and copy the customer service skills and leaderhship training you gave us. Without you I would not have been a success in the Navy. YNC Lowe - great leader. The rest I better just go by name; YN1 Franklin, YN2 Johnnie Ray Holiday, PN2 Reader, YN3 Judy, DK2 Powell, BM2 Hunihan, PNC Kemp, YNC Roderick Betts, the Radio shack, RMCS Stephens (who reported a PO1 and left a RMCS), OS3 Gallup, FC3 Daryl Ranger, and many more.
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| Name : Pete Glasscock |
13 Aug 2002
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| Rate/Rank : MM3 |
| Years Onboard : 87-89 |
| e-mail : napigsi@aol.com |
| Comments : The two years I serveed the Vreeland were by far the best I served any where. Worked like a dog and played like one too! Thanks for the memories.
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| Name : Richard "Ozzie" Osburn |
31 Aug 2002
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| Rate/Rank : BTCS |
| Years Onboard : 6/72-3/73 |
| e-mail : osburn@darientel.net |
| Comments : I remember cooling off on the fantail one morning about 0100 and running into the Chief Engineer, who was that day's CDO, Lt Ralph Waite. He was pacing about and wringing his hands in an
agitated manner. "Hey!" I says, "You look like you've just lost your best friend!" "It's worse than that, Oz," he said, "I've just lost the motor whaleboat and the XO, too!" It seems the XO had a snoot-full and had commandeered the whaleboat from fleet landing and no one knew where he was. But he was found later that morning, with the boat up on some rocks. A couple of days later the XO had to leave the ship because of "family sickness" and never returned to Vreeland.
BTCM "Ozzie" Osburn - RET
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