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1 Tue July 28 2009 - 01:20:38 Fullname: Chris Mitchell Rate/Rank: E5/IM2/Instrumentman Email: camilliontwo1@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Middle of Nebraska now - From CR, Iowa Comments: I was aboard the USS Dixie AD14 (decommisioned in '83) and was at Diego in 82 & 83 servicing ships - what a place - I actually liked it! 2 Mon July 27 2009 - 16:47:48 Fullname: todd arve Rate/Rank: eo-cn Email: toddarve@yahoo.com Where are your from?: so. calif. Comments: great site i was there jan 83 -jan 84 NSF transportation. first 6 months island dispatcher for military vech.beautiful island would love to go back,great friends,times,water,and fun..really enjoyed your photos it brings back alot of fond memorys!i wish I was there now.take care and thanks again. 3 Tue May 26 2009 - 15:03:09 Fullname: JOHN LUCIANO Rate/Rank: SSGT, USAF Email: HOGDRIVR@OPTONLINE.NET Where are your from?: LONG ISLAND NEW YORK Comments: SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS ON DIEGO GARCIA IN 79 AND AGAIN IN 80-81. IT WAS HELL AT THE TIME BUT KIND OF COOL NOW, LOOKING BACK. SCUMBAG THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO RELIEVE ME IN 79 FAKED SICK AND GOT MY MISSION TO AUSTRALIA! HOPE A KANGAROO KICKED HIS ASS. HAVE AN ASSORTMENT OF PICS. 4 Sat April 04 2009 - 18:33:18 Fullname: Alan Hubbard Rate/Rank: HM2 Email: sandal239@charter.net Where are your from?: O Fallon, MO Comments: Great site. I was in "H" Co, MCB-10, was on "The Rock" in, I think, '74-75....been too long time and too many beers ago. Lived in the SEA (SoutheEast Asia) huts, fell asleep many days to the rain drumming on the tin roof. Froze at night under 2 USN issue wool blankets when the temp dropped to 70 after being 110. Got tired of steak, shrimp & lobster tail, which we had what seemed like weekly. When the freezers broke we had canned pork, canned beef, and corned beef, the cooks rotated what meat we had for meals daily. The desal barge broke down and our "whites" were more of a dingy grey/brown. Drank gallons of boiler makers at the EM club for 40 cents each...my liver will never recover. Beautiful place, would like to see it now, I probably would not recognize the place. 5 Thu April 02 2009 - 13:47:12 Fullname: Tj McCormick Rate/Rank: BU 3 Email: tj.mccorm@aol.com Where are your from?: Simpsonville, South Carolina Comments: Was with NMCB 74 in 1978. One of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. Remember working on the swimming pool. had a great party on opening day. The only place I would ever drink Olympia beer. I don't think I've had any since. 6 Thu March 12 2009 - 12:20:35 Fullname: bill hoyt Rate/Rank: ut/e3 Email: buzzard@nelson-tel.net Where are your from?: durand,wi. Comments: public works 74-75 diego garcia 7 Tue February 24 2009 - 13:05:23 Fullname: Bill Youngblood Rate/Rank: E5 Email: wmyoug73@gmail.com Where are your from?: Tnnessee Comments: Was stationed there 2002-2003. Loved the island, I will probably never see another place as beautiful as "The Rock". 8 Mon February 23 2009 - 11:50:55 Fullname: RM3 Michael (Chico) Olivarez Rate/Rank: RM3 Email: michaelo@nortel.com Where are your from?: Dallas, TX Comments: I was stationed on the Rock from Sep 1981 ~ Sep 1982. I worked at R-Site, T-Site and Air-Ops. Had a blast there, yes I remember "Hector the Hammerhead", playing Jungle Ball, drinking MoJo till you fell face down in the dirt, those were the days! 9 Fri February 06 2009 - 01:14:34 Fullname: John W Bleasdale Rate/Rank: EX Petty Officer Radio Elec Royal Navy Email: jag92hot@aol.com Where are your from?: Grimsby England Comments: Have had a look through the guest book most of you guys were probably not even born when I hit the shores of Diego Garcia. Some 40+ years ago,whilst serving on HMS Dampier which was a Survey Ship of the Royal Navy Surveying the Indian Ocean,We were told, after 90 days at sea & having not seen land in all that time, that we were to be allowed ashore for what was termed in the RN a "Ban Yan" This meant we could take as much food & beer ashore & totaly relax for circa 8 hours. A football match was arranged with the locals. After we had supplied at their request details of what a Football pitch looked like.On arrival a spce had been cleared a prfect pitch had been marked out even correct size Goal Posts (I suspect they may have beaten us) & we held what we called the "Dampier Olympics" Running, Jumping, Sack races, you name it & of course the obligatory drinking contest. One of the things I remember well & have a photograph of was a Palm Tree growing through a crashed Sea Plane.which i found recently on the Internet somewhere doubt if its still there Obviously at the time we were sworn to secresy & had no Idea why we were ther in the first place. We were not allowed to write home & mention any thing.Official Secrets Act & all that. But what a beautifull Island probably best decribed as PARADISE. Sufice to say My Commision ended & I flew back to England from Singapore Leaving the Lucky ones to another 18 months commission on Dampier, and many more visits to Diego Lucky sods. Thought no more about it. It was many years later when we discovered why we had been there. When HMS Dampier was to be De commissoned she boke down just outside of the UK.The Captain refused to be be Towed into the UK And Sails were manufactured by the Crew, and with dignity she saild back home into dock. Maybe some of you guys saw the new HMS Dampier floating around. Regards Bleasie 10 Fri January 16 2009 - 10:37:48 Fullname: Ed Jackson Rate/Rank: BU2 Email: deref@msn.com Where are your from?: Wilmington, DE Comments: Was a member of Delta Co., MCB 62, 1971 to 1974. I was with MCB 62 when we releived MCB 40 in 1972. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>
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