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Best Friends My Rugby Teamates! Sgt. Michael A. Sager and Sgt. R.L. Perkins. Also Robert Butler was a classmate in High School who was a great fishing and hunting buddy, whom I talked into joining the military and later retired as a Captain in the US Navy.
Best Moment Playing on the US Navy Rugby Team and winning the East Coast Rugger Championship in 1973. Dave Howell and I were the only two Marines on the team. The rest were primarily made up of SEAL Teams 1 & 2, UDT Teams 21 & 22, Mobile Construction Team Two and I think 1 pilot from Oceana. Great times!
Worst Moment Several - early 70's were interesting times. The "Jolly Roger", "Purple Onion" and "Clown's Den" in Oceanview and "Allen's Grill" in Chesapeake Beach were favorite hangouts for us.
Chain of Command BGen. W.F. Doehler was the CG, LFTCLant during my last years. Maj. John T. Gray OIC of Communications Dept., MGySgt. Don Trosper followed MGySgt. Maras was the Comm. Chief when I left. GySgts Sullivan and J.E. Stancill were also instructors for Comm. Center and Wire Operations. Others there on an old set of Superior Performance Pay Orders included GySgts. R.A. Allie, F.D. Brock, D. J. Dougherty, J.C.Har Jr., J. D. "Dave" Howell, W.A. Keeys, R.P. Merle, J.J. Mitravich, J.W. Ross, D.E. Turner, D.D. Wright, SSgts. L. Beltran, R.A. Gray, J.A. Sherwood, A.J. Singleton, J.W. Vongruenigen, C.J. Werth Jr and Sgts. W.J. Barlow, G.S. Crumb Jr, D.A. Gentry, S.N. Dunstan, S.R. Sidleau and myself.
Other Memories I was a Communications Instructor for Field Radio Operations and the Waterproofing Course (to include Underwater Deployment Ops). MTT's to UDT, SEAL and USAF Special Operations forces. Drinking a pitcher of martinis to get my SSgt. Chevrons at the 56 Club, and having to go to BGen. Doehler's office the next morning to explain the night's festivities!
