I don't visit this site nearly enough, but feel rewarded for my "mouse-clicks" this morning. What a wonderful string to read through You guys still rock! Thanks for sharing your memories.

Wow, some flashbacks here...I was at CNFJ from jan 73 to jan 76 and served with a number of these (older) guys. It always cracked me up when the "other" guy standing watch with you at the cave pulled out a mattress and went to sleep on a mid. Clif Clifton somehow managed to get that sailboat sent to the site and we used to sail all over the harbor in it til we rolled it over going too far out of the harbor and almost drowned. Made the news...(bad). Prior to that Gary Hemmer was having a few on a local seawall. Fell off and had to be helo'ed out by jmsdf. That made the news also...Oh, and as the CNFJ alumni all know, the work was really KICK BUTT.