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Being born deaf, I wanted to get into the Navy after high school. Eventually, I bought my way in, without physical or boot camp. I ended up with 24 weeks of ET school, before they found that a deaf person could not service radio and electronic stuff. So, I left Treasure Island for San Diego and another school. I qualified for any training because of my perfect GCT scores.
After 13 weeks, they called me in and said I can not be the IC person they were training me for. So, they said, "how about an electrician, Anybody can be an electrician?" So, I became an electrician. I ran Nimitz Theater movies for a side job. Then onto Nuckie Poo school at Mare Island and eventually Idaho. Everything was great until a nuclear meltdown down the road at the Air Force experimental place. We had to assist in the clean up. I was overexposed and ended up with new duty.
I went to Bremerton for construction of the Cochran, DDG 21. After homeport in Hawaii and one Wes-Pac cruise, I went to EM class B school. From there, I reported to MSO 432, at Long Beach. The Dynamic was my home for six years, five months and three days. Great duty. I met a great gal and got married and got my discharge to start a family.
Nine years later, we had our first child who is now running a research lab and a grad student at Thomas Jefferson University. We also have a daughter who is a double major for Elementary Ed and Special Ed.
I am retired and enjoying "ALL" of my spare time, building my MSO.
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