Crews page for Rick Palmer, OI div, on board New 66-68 1965 Taken for the USS Corry 65 Cruise Book |
During 67 West Pac on port bridge wing > In Hong Kong with two Veit Namese officers V |
About 1974 at anchor of USS Arizona Memorial March of 1973 I re enlisted and requested duty on a destroyer anywhere in the Pacific. I was assigned to the USS Morton DD 948 in Pearl Harbor for the next four years. I made 2 more West Pacs. |
OS2 Palmer, LPO OI div in 75-76 relaxing in CIC.(goofing off more like it) |
1976 at Fwd gun mount of Morton |
2002 at forward gunmount of USS Edson DD 946.located at the Intrepid Museum in New
York City. during Edson Field Day.Still need my coffee. <-- My son enjoyed the weekend with me. Pictured at after gun mount. USS Intrepid CVS 11 in background. For more information on field days and the ship museums see Links Page. Tin Can Sailors and USS Edson website link. Edson was the last all gun ship in the US Navy. |
Reported on board New Jan 66 after serving on Corry DD 817 during 1965. Made a second
Med cruise and got to see the wonderful (yeah right) Red Sea a second time.
New entered the ship yards for refitting shortly after returning from Med. After
leaving yards we made a Gitmo cruise for refresher training and returned for
a short stay to Norfolk before leaving for West Pac. |
1974 while in the Phillipines I met and married my wife. Here with me in 1996 before going out to dinner,and during adopt a highway cleanup with Sons of Confederate Veterans, in LaPlata Md. |
Some of my toys. Anita and me with my 62 Falcon, My 66 Ford Ranchero |
My old 46 Chevy truck. It may be a Chevy but it is still a neat truck. < My old Mack mixer about 1996 > |
Uniform of another sort. Portraying one of my Maryland Line CSA ancestors during
a living history in Port Tobacco Md. < |
< Same company ^ Above I drove a mixer for them for years also This was 1980 as a mechanic for a local concrete company I retired from them when it was sold to a foriegn corp and now my son and I repair and restore old cars. |
In October of 2002 I attended a reunion of the USS Corry DD 817 in Roanoke, Va. I
was on Corry about 9 months prior to New and made a Med / Red Sea criuse on it
in 1965. I was on three different DD's and memories tend to run together so it
was hard to remember anyone. We did have a good time there tho. At left is me standing with another Corry Sailor who was transferred from Corry in 1964 as she pulled into the D&S piers in Norfolk right to the New. Funny thing is Corry had just returned from Gitmo for it's after FRAM reftra and as soon as he set foot on board New they pulled up the gangplank and were underway for Gitmo. This was just after New came out of the yards from FRAM. New was short on RD petty officers and had held up it's departure time waiting for RD2 Louis Hale. Louis was transferred to New before I came aboard Corry so I never knew him until last October's Corry Reunion. He left New sometime in 1965 so I never knew him on either ship But we do have something in common. How many sailors can go from the DD 817 to the 818.. |
Pictures taken at Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke Virginia. It is a grand hotel to say the
least. Beutiful in every way. Over 120 years old it doesn't show it's age at
all. |
Rick Palmer and Louis Hale. Both RD's and both on Corry and New. |
My wife Anita and myself in the lobby after the banquet. Married 29 years now. |
Above is during the banquet. |
Next year I will have some from the New reunion. |
Yokosuka, Japan 1967 |