Beyond Aberdeen: A Bluejacket Diary"Ship Ahoy!" and "Bon Voyage!" Join the author as he takes you on a journey unlike any you may have imagined! See what the U.S. Navy's "boot camp" was really like! Feel the frustration and joy that comes with months of constant military training, or the fear that comes with wartime duties! Experience exotic ports of call as the author takes you to far corners of the planet-locations that most Americans can only imagine! See the world through the eyes of a sailor or perhaps just trigger lost memories from events in your own naval history. Let Beyond Aberdeen: A Bluejacket Diary tell you how a farm boy from Idaho gave up the life he knew for the promise of service, travel, and adventure as an electronics technician in the United States Navy! Watch as maturity, responsibility, and the legacy of a small town upbringing all work together to turn a boy into a man! |
Contents
The Grand Tour | 228 |
Fishermans Wharf | 236 |
USS Eldorado | 241 |
Boat Support Unit One | 249 |
Doin the Nasty | 253 |
Assault on San Clemente | 258 |
War Games and Heavy Seas | 263 |
Breakfast in Oceanside | 269 |
Fate Steps | 68 |
Firefighting in Carroll | 72 |
Mess | 80 |
Recruit Drum Bugle Corps | 86 |
Cinderella Liberty | 102 |
The Mother Goose Parade | 110 |
BEEP School | 118 |
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death | 125 |
Robbery at | 133 |
Treasure Chapter 35 First San Francisco Liberty Chapter 36 ETA | 140 |
Scott | 151 |
ETA School A1 Phase | 157 |
Surfside Sentry | 173 |
Rose 29 | 182 |
Weekend Warrior | 186 |
Lions 45 Fortyniners 3 Hippies 0 | 194 |
Petty Officer Stoker | 198 |
ETA School A2 Phase | 202 |
Thanksgiving on Nob Hill | 207 |
A New Year in Chinatown | 212 |
ETC School | 218 |
South San Francisco | 223 |
SERE School | 272 |
Back to the Eldorado | 278 |
Haze Grey and Underway | 282 |
Aloha to the Grey Ghost | 288 |
Crossing the Pond | 292 |
Land Ho | 299 |
Olongapo | 309 |
Vietnam | 314 |
Crossing the Line | 322 |
Singapore | 330 |
Chapter | 339 |
Chapter | 350 |
Chapter | 356 |
Home | 364 |
Operation Golden | 387 |
Grande Island | 396 |
Hong Kong | 403 |
EXPO 70 | 409 |
Epilogue | 417 |
I am an American Sailor | 425 |