I spent over 22 years in the US Navy. I managed to take a few pictures during that time. I hope you enjoy what I have to show. Most of these pictures are quite old. I used Paint Shop Pro 9 to enhance them and recover the damaged ones. Most were on slides and had to be scanned to my PC first.
Yep. This is where it started. Here I am in Boot Camp Great Lakes Ill. It's 1966 and I'm wondering just what the heck have I gotten myself into.
As you can see this picture of me was from the summer of 1966. I was attending EM"A" school. That's Electrician Mate's school.
After school I was sent to the USS Claude Ricketts DDG-5. I made a Med Cruise on this ship. Here are some pictures from that cruise.
We are anchored outside Rapallo, Italy.
Now here's a couple of shots at sea
Harbor at Corfu, Greece. This is a small island and it turned out to be a very good liberty port for us. The people were very friendly.
Triest, Italy
I believe this was the town hall.
Back at sea again. Here comes the mail.