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1 Thu November 19 2009 - 18:37:13 Fullname: Tom Pedersen Rate/Rank: Lt,jg Email: tpedersen@triad.rr.com Where are your from?: Winston Salem, NC Comments: Served on board from mid '68 to late '69 as engineering officer. Great wardroom and enlisted group. Would love to hear from some of those folks...and yes,Mike, those Packards were a royal pain in the butt! 2 Fri November 13 2009 - 20:38:52 Fullname: Mike Meyers Rate/Rank: Commander, USN, Retired Email: cempottery@verizon.net Where are your from?: Chincoteague Island, Virginia Comments: Was CO from Feb '69 to Oct '70. Was serving as XO,USS Cone (DD-866) when ordered to take command of Aggressive on 5 days notice. Never before stepped foot aboard an MSO. Grew to love that ship even though the Packards were a pain in the butt. Sorry I couln't have stayed aboard longer but decision was made to decommission. her. 3 Sat August 29 2009 - 16:00:38 Fullname: Robert Sill Rate/Rank: SK3 Email: thornbox-patriot@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Spartanburg, SC Comments: Greeting shipmates! I served aboard Aggressive from 1965 to 1967. Looking back these were two of the best years of my life. She was a wonderful ship and I have many fond memories of those times with great shipmates. It is sad that she is gone. I would like to hear from anyone who served during those two years. It would be interesting to put together a roster of men who served aboard MSO 422. 4 Sun January 18 2009 - 05:25:09 Fullname: Theodore E. Dunlap Rate/Rank: E5 Email: budro1946@gmail.com Where are your from?: Ocean Springs, Mississippi Comments: Would be nice to talk to buddys from duty. 5 Sun December 14 2008 - 06:31:11 Fullname: Donald L. Hawbaker Rate/Rank: EN-2 Email: Fuelman1946@aol.com Where are your from?: Central Iowa Comments: Greetings Fellow MSO/MCM Sailor, My Name is Donald L. Hawbaker, I am the Membership Director for the Navy MSO Association inc. You can Visit our home page here: http://www.nmsoa.org I am currently working my 2009 membership drive and I have located your contact information on various e-group guest books and registration areas to do with the MSO/MCM Community or am attaching this to sites dedicated to current and former Navy personell . I would like to extend an invitation to you to join the NMSOA and become a member of our Brotherhood. We build web sites in memory of our old ships, we hang out together on various e-groups to keep in touch and we even hold an all crews reunion every two years. The last of which was held October 2007 at Corpus Christi Texas with an awesome visit to the Ingleside Naval station and a private tour of an MCM as well as the Mine Counter Measures school. If you would like to be in the company of fellow EX-MSO Sailors or Active Duty and Former MCM Sailors, The NMSOA is the place for you... I look forward to seeing you aboard! Thanks for your time, Donald L. Hawbaker 6 Thu July 24 2008 - 21:59:57 Fullname: Robert E. Eardley Rate/Rank: BMCS Ret Email: ageles3941@aol.com Where are your from?: Mobile, Alabama Comments: Bob passed away January 27th, 2008. He was on the Aggressive when we maried in November, 1961. The "Aggie" was always special to the both of us. He took pride in his enlistment in the Navy, and we, now I, have great memories of those days. Evelyn Eardley 7 Sat March 29 2008 - 16:11:00 Fullname: Oscar Stephens Rate/Rank: STCS (Ret) Email: ostephens@sc.rr.com Where are your from?: Evansville,IN now living Moncks Corner,SC Comments: Served on board Nov 64 till Nov 67 as an STC. Great ship, great memories. CPO quarters consisted of myself, ENCS Valdares, BMC Steadman, QMC Suckow.. Great times we had along with long hours and hard work, 8 Mon January 14 2008 - 01:34:39 Fullname: Bob Adelwerth, CWO3 USN Ret Rate/Rank: Email: adelwerthbob@wmconnect.com Where are your from?: Hobe Sound, Fla Comments: Served on Aggressive from March 59 to Sept 63. Reported aboard as EM2 and left as EMC. We deployed to New London for Minex in summer of 59, Halifax in '60, then Caribbean in '60, Med in '61, then Caribbean in '62, Bermuda in '63. I was minesweep electrician. She was a great ship with a great crew. 9 Sun August 05 2007 - 21:09:23 Fullname: W. W. "Mike" Warren Rate/Rank: EN2 Email: usslucid@usslucid.org Where are your from?: Bradford Island, California Comments: Members of the minesweeping community; The Lucid MSO-458 Foundation was formed by a group of minesweeper crewmen who served aboard US Navy MSO's. MSO's are a class of wooden hull oceangoing minesweepers that are now decommissioned and fading from public memory. The group has obtained the USS Lucid MSO-458 and has her docked at Bradford Island, California. Work has begun! The organization is restoring her and a public museum is established. The MSO is a little known and poorly documented, extremely interesting facet of Naval history. The USS Lucid Museum is dedicated to telling the story of the minesweeping men and their wooden ships, the last all wooden US Naval ships, to navigate the oceans. We will be telling the stories of Mine Recovery and UDT teams, Floating Pigs, Hammer Boxes, Magtails, Aluminum Engines and Towed Sonar. The little known stories of Contact, Magnetic and Acoustic minesweeping as well as the mystery of Magnetic Countermeasures will be told through the displays, narratives and museum media. Typhoons, tiny ships and ice-clad superstructures are only a small part of the "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" story. From sweeping the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam, observing the final Nuclear blasts on Johnston Island to sweeping the Persian Gulf, "Where the Fleet Goes, We've Been" will be clearly illustrated. Since there is no other Naval Museum that even attempts to tell the story of the MSO the USS Lucid is an important and living detail of US Naval History. First, Lucid must undergo a restoration. Previous civilian owners for commercial use have modified her. She needs hull repairs and painting and re-outfitting to be brought back to her former Naval dignity and glory. The Lucid MSO-458 Foundation has a workforce of planners, engineers and volunteer manpower who are vested and committed to this grand and worthy project. Bringing her to life is a large financial undertaking. We’re looking for tax-exempt gifts from the Military Industrial sector and individuals to help with this extremely valuable endeavor. Of course, all donors will be properly and prominently acknowledged aboard the vessel. Your donation will help preserve this vital part of Naval History. Please join us in telling the MSO story by sending a tax-exempt gift to Lucid MSO-458 Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit foundation through our website. http://www.usslucid.org 10 Tue May 15 2007 - 16:35:18 Fullname: Robert Eugene Eardley Rate/Rank: BMCS Email: ageles3941@aol.com Where are your from?: Ala., originally, now in Jacksonville, Fl Comments: I was on the Aggressive from Dec. 1957 until Dec. 1962 in Charleston, S. C. I went there as a Seaman, and left as a Second Class Bosun. 1 2 3
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