Spent a long evening of debauchery in the Kef First and CPO Club with Gene. He told 200 jokes and never bought a round....and nobody cared. Another of the characters that made the system run like a swiss watch for all those years. Just gotta be the best money the gov't ever spent.

RIP Gene I'll never forget how you could always keep your shipmates up and on the straight, Thanks for all the good memories.

Will never forget the jokes and tricks played by Jimmy and Gene. Being a victim of the old shaving cream in the eisenhower jacket sleeves backfire at the school house. Plan was for me to fill up Jimmys jacket. Unknown to me, Gene had warned Jimmy. They switched jackets on our desk chairs and I ended up filling up my own jacket. Classic.

I was stationed with Gene Howard at Fleet Sonar School Key West form 1970. Gene had a personality to fondly remember. He really had a sense of humor