(don't remember his full name - sorry!) taken by
John Whitmire in October 1966. The event was a Delta
Section beach party.
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| Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico - 1966/67 |
| Images and narrative from John Whitmire |
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Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico. This is a picture of Ollie (don't remember his full name - sorry!) taken by John Whitmire in October 1966. The event was a Delta Section beach party. |
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Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico. This is a picture of Dave (Jessie) James taken by John Whitmire in October 1966. The event was a Delta Section beach party. Believe the lady is Paul Beaudrou's (he got out of Navy after one tour) wife. |
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Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico. This is a picture of an unidentified sailor taken by John Whitmire in October 1966. |
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Barracks life, Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico. This is a picture of my bunk taken by myself (John Whitmire) in October 1966. I had the bottom rack and we had a BM1 CMAA that went aroung the barracks everyday and made sure all racks were made and all cubes were cleaned. On weekends we let everything go and Boats was there first thing Monday morning. I can't remember his name but he spent all his time with NAVSECGRU, never went to sea and he made BMC! |
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This picture was taken from the top floor outside stairwell by John Whitmire in October 1966. The building in the background is the Admin Building and Quarterdeck. Directly in front of the Admin Building is the circular driveway - this is where the shuttle bus, several times a day, would pick us up to take us on Liberty in San Juan. The last bus arrived back to Sabana Seca at about 0230 every morning which made for a very tough day watch! |
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This is a picture of my locker (John Whitmire) at Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico taken in October 1966. You have to remember that back in those days we had routine required locker and sea bag inspections. If we didn't have a complete sea bag (equal to what was issued in Boot Camp) we had to go buy and replace what was missing. |
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Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico 1966. From left to right: John Whitmire, Dave "Jessie" James and Wesley Wipf (Wes got out of Navy after first tour, last I heard he was a manager of a K-Mart (or some similar store). |
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Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico 1966 - picture taken by John Whitmire. That's Dave Freed sitting. Directly behind Dave is Dave "Jessie" James and Wesley Wipf. |
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Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico 1966. Picture taken by John Whitmire. Sitting: Tom Beard. Tom lost his clearance prior to getting out of the Navy. He spent his last few months working in the chow hall collecting COMRATS from those that had to pay and using a "clicker" to validate chow hall attendance to see how many people ate for each meal. He was also in a pretty bad car accident (Bob Featherer was in the same automobile) and the front of his face got injured; lost some teeth, had to have stitches, etc.They had just left the Condado Area (Latin Q discotheque) and were on their way to Old San Juan for some additional liberty. |
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Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico 1966. Photo taken by John Whitmire at a section party. Left to Right: (Tom?) Bricker and Tom Beard. |
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Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico circa 1966. John Whitmire relaxing in his bunk. The paperboy used to come around to each cube every morning and deliver a paper - think it only cost about $2 a month. What a life! |
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