SThompson - Ahoy, Boats! Thaniks for the welcome. I'm sure any kind of Chief, grizzled or not, Bo'sun or Quartermaster, could stand by to pick me out of the water! I came out of OCS rarin' to go to a FMS or DE - but ended up as a land-lubber computer programmer at NEL 'Diego. After 3.5 years I was a fairly senior LtJG (thanks to reserve duty) 1100 line officer who had never set foot on a quarter-deck except as a guest of my classmates! In a fit of embarrassment I opted out to pursue the computer career. That was in 1964, so I AM a little grizzled myself
I've beem looking for info on the chats - when and where?