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1 Sun December 14 2008 - 06:35:29 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 2 Sun June 22 2008 - 19:55:59 Fullname: Donnie Ray Cooley Rate/Rank: YNSN Email: www.donnienjanice.@ charter.net Where are your from?: Belton, S.C., 29627 Comments: I work in ship office with Randy Paul Dunbar, YN3. Underway watch I was on bridge with B.W. Redding,lll. The Captain E.W.B. Jeffes., XO T. O. Nutt, Ens Redding was Engineering Officer. Supply Officer R.L.Fish. 3 Wed August 29 2007 - 02:08:21 Fullname: Van Husted Rate/Rank: ENC Email: vanjr@earthlink.net Where are your from?: Swanton Ohio Comments: 4 Sun August 05 2007 - 21:13:23 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 5 Sun January 14 2007 - 22:34:59 Fullname: Ron Brackin Rate/Rank: E3 Boatswains mate/corpsman striker Email: rebrackin@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Cleveland Comments: Served on the USS Avenge November 1966 to October 1967. Skipper: Cmdr. Clarence Edward Lobb. Shipmates included Steve Argay, Jerry Maltese, Jan Shingler, and Johnny Mack Blakeley. 6 Sat February 11 2006 - 01:39:01 Fullname: Terry M. Schmader Rate/Rank: Senior Chief Navy Counsler Email: tsschmader@csonline.net Where are your from?: Oil City, Pa. Comments: After leaving the Avenge I served several places; Minron 10,- San Juan, Puerto Rico,-Navy Recruiting Oil City, Pa,-Navy Special OPS In country Viet Nam,-Howard W. Gilmore(AS 16)- Uss Recovery(ARS 43), -Recruiting Duty Toledo, Ohio. I had a great and varied Navy Career and it started on the Avenge. My time on the Avenge was great, made many wonderful friends like the Brindles, Young, Tom Peters, Larch, Foggie etc. We were also blessed with some great CO's. 7 Fri February 03 2006 - 06:04:39 Fullname: James Young Rate/Rank: RM3 Email: Sheransales@aol.com Where are your from?: Baltimore, Maryland Comments: I came aboard just before the Med Cruise in 68-69. Joined the Navy to see the world, so they sent me with the Ship to Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in 69 which happened to be about 10 minutes from where I grew up. I re-enlisted just before the fire in 70 and was sent all the way to Bainbridge, Md for 36 weeks of RM "B" School. So much for seeing the world! Left B School, and began my tour of Submarine Duty out of Pearl Harbor and left the service in 76. 8 Sun October 30 2005 - 17:08:00 Fullname: Alan Fisk Rate/Rank: CDR Email: alannfisk@comcast.net Where are your from?: Warrington, PA currently Comments: Tom, Thanks for contacting me. I was an RDSN when on the Avenge in 1961-62. Later, I retired as CDR. I was surprised and pleased when you emailed me. I fondly remember the Avenge. I especially remember standing quarterdeck watch in Panama City, FL when it was cold that we rotated every 30 minutes between the quarterdeck and the mess decks. Regards, Alan 9 Sat October 29 2005 - 12:45:31 Fullname: Mike Dennis Rate/Rank: on Avenge RM3 (retired as RMC) Email: rdennis1@cfl.rr.com Where are your from?: New smyrna Beach, Florida Comments: Served on the Avenge from Novenber 1956 to April 1959. Remember RMSN John Miller, RM1 Dan Bartlett, RM2 Frenchie Bournouville, RD3 Puckett, and several others whose names will not come to mind. 10 Sat October 29 2005 - 03:22:50 Fullname: David Janowitz Rate/Rank: SOG2 Email: davidjanowitz@msn.com Where are your from?: Baltimore, Maryland Comments: Served on the Avenge 1960 to 1963. I remember Tom (EN2) and Fogie(EN2) Looking back they were the best times of my life 1 2
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