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1 Sun December 14 2008 - 06:54:59 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 Sat April 12 2008 - 13:18:07 Fullname: Gary Mullenhoff Rate/Rank: EN2 Email: gary.ot@gmail.com Where are your from?: Boston Comments: I was on board from July 69 to Aug 70 3 Wed February 20 2008 - 02:26:49 Fullname: John F O'Mara Rate/Rank: QM3 Email: jomara@bresnan.net Where are your from?: Butte Montana Comments: I served aboard this ship from May of 62 until Dec. of 1963.Ijust stumbled across this site and saw two people who served about the same time. 4 Sun December 16 2007 - 02:23:43 Fullname: Vito M. Spagnola Rate/Rank: DC-2 Email: vms@hvc.rr.com Where are your from?: Wurtsboro N.Y. Comments: Served abord Embattle Sept. 68 to Jan 71. Made WestPac. 5 Sun August 19 2007 - 16:59:35 Fullname: jack carl watkins Rate/Rank: E3 fireman Email: goatroper51@yahoo.com Where are your from?: dallas,tx Comments: i was on her for boot training in 1970 6 Sun August 05 2007 - 21:40:03 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 7 Wed July 04 2007 - 17:11:43 Fullname: Fredrick Beduhn Rate/Rank: SOG2 Email: fbeduhn@sbcglobal.net Where are your from?: Cleveland, Ohio Comments: Served in CIC as sonarman 2nd class from 5/1958 thru 12/1959. 1958-1959 went over to Japan,Korea,Thailand, etc. with ship. 8 Wed July 04 2007 - 17:09:33 Fullname: Fredrick Beduhn Rate/Rank: SOG2 Email: fbeduhn@sbcglbal.net Where are your from?: Cleveland, Ohio Comments: Served in CIC as sonarman 2nd class from 5/1958 thru 12/1959. 1958-1959 went over to Japan,Korea,Thailand, etc. with ship. 9 Fri June 01 2007 - 17:49:40 Fullname: robert allen mizer Rate/Rank: rm2 Email: bobandsuex1@netzero.net Where are your from?: danville ohio Comments: I served aboard uss embattle from 25-oct 1965 until 13-sept 1967.I am looking for steve gates rm2 . We served together for a westpac cruise.Does anyone remember? 10 Wed November 30 2005 - 00:28:19 Fullname: Joseph (Joe) Rorie Rate/Rank: reported on as a FA left as a EN2 Email: joerorie117@msn.com Where are your from?: AR/ TX USA Comments: I,m a fulltime RVer now I was on the Embattle from Aug. 1960 thru NOV. 1963 1 2
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