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Title: USN
Post by: Charlie on 07-27-2004 -- 17:32:21
Hi - Just found the site, any exNavy types out there?
Title: USN
Post by: MIRCS on 07-27-2004 -- 17:37:05
Oh Yeah Charlie.....ex IM2 myself stuck in the PMEL world right now.
Title: USN
Post by: Old-Navy on 07-28-2004 -- 07:51:34
Welcome Charlie.   Retired IM1...  trapped in New Mexico at the moment.
Title: USN
Post by: MIRCS on 07-28-2004 -- 17:38:59
IM1....you got any new (old) rate training manuals for IM3-IMC. I have a very old one.....from the late 50's. It has been helpful for the ET minded people on how things can be fixed. Though too much on watch/clock and office machines in it. I had them on CD at one time and have seemed to misplace it. Also if the ET minded people there want I have the current complete set of NEETS modules. can burn it and send it to ya.
Title: USN
Post by: IMC-Ret on 07-29-2004 -- 08:46:29
Retired (1986) IMC, Ran MIRCS on Frank Cable (AS-40) and SIMA Charleston...
Title: USN
Post by: Old-Navy on 07-29-2004 -- 13:53:30
Rate Training Manuals?  All I have left is a 20 year old copy of the QAL-2.  Wish I still had an IM 3&2...
Title: USN
Post by: MIRCS on 07-29-2004 -- 14:29:34
Yeah I wish I had a newer IM 3&2 than this one from the 50's.
Title: USN
Post by: Old-Navy on 08-02-2004 -- 13:46:05
Retired (1995) IMI.  Ran MIRCS on USS Acadia, USS Jason, and Subase, Pearl Harbor.
Title: USN
Post by: MIRCS on 08-02-2004 -- 19:15:15
i was a FSA on the Prarire, also a MIRCS tech,  I was a San tank diver on the McKee, also a 107 worker(that really sucked), also dove th San tanks for a living in bangor at TRF. I also was a onsite mofo on the Cape Cod on it's last west pac. I hope the IC men enjoy that job of diving tanks now...........it sucked, especially San 7 and San 3......and don't forget AMR#2, ot the SSTG Sump tanks(that one truly sucked) on the boomers.
Title: USN
Post by: MIRCS on 08-05-2004 -- 14:26:52
IMC,

Did you know Al Hagar in Charleston????
Title: USN
Post by: MIRCS on 08-05-2004 -- 20:49:19
IM1,
whatcha think if the USAF got some hydralic panels?
Title: USN
Post by: Old-Navy on 08-06-2004 -- 07:55:34
Hmmm...  Hydraulic panels...   Nahhhhhh...  better leave that one to the Stone Age..
Title: USN
Post by: Old-Navy on 08-06-2004 -- 07:59:07
Ahhh.. San Tanks... "brown trouts"....  the joy.
I remember my first ship, USS Fulton.  IM1 Charlie Carlson sent me to medical for my shots, then the suited me up and dropped me down (I weighed 150 lbs at the time) into the tank on a Fast Attack.. USS Trepang.  I went on the Baskin Robbins diet after that day and ballooned up to a nice 185.. couldn't fit through the holes anymore...  and my San Tank days were over..
Title: USN
Post by: MIRCS on 08-06-2004 -- 08:24:02
San Tank #1&3 on the USS Jefferson City, that was my first diving. They were both located in the Torpedo room. Wasn't too bad unless they were loading or had a full load already in there. There was another on the Pogy or one of the other 637 boats that was under a bottom rack in one of the berthing areas.......still haven't figured out how to i got into that one. And I dove my first one at 190 lbs....I tried that diet thing too...........didn't work.
Title: USN
Post by: farmerrd2 on 10-25-2004 -- 17:30:55
I am a retired IM1.
I was on the Frank Cable, Cape Cod, Hector and  three tours at Sima, San Diego. I was a 1820,1808, 1809 and 1801.  
I am part of a private company out of San Diego  that is owned and run by former IM's. As of this date there are five of us.
Title: USN
Post by: dunoon on 10-31-2004 -- 15:20:29
Was a mech cal tech OM1911 (BM) before mircs, back then,  we were mainly there to support the polaris program just about 1/2 our work was calibarting the equip used to optical align the polaris missles.  Hardly anything was electroinic we even had to use a Fredian mech calulator to do computitation for calibrating surface plates.  The school then was located in a building on the property of General Dynamics in Pomona, Calif.  That is where MEC was located they that developed the calibartiion procedures.  The school was 10 weeks long, 6 weeks of Physical/dimensional and 4 weeks of optical.I went to school in the late winter of '68.  The school moved to Lowrey in '69 except the optical part in the early 70's with the posidion system, the optical systems were phased out.
I was stationed ;
USS Simon Lake AS-33, Holy Loch, Scotland 66-69
civilian Insturment tech Bethleham Steel, Burns Harbor, Indiana 69-72
USS Simon Lake AS-33, Rota Spain 72-74
USS Canopus AS-34, Holy Loch, Scotland 74-75
USS Holland AS-32, Holy Loch, Scotland 75-77
SIMA Norfolk 77-80, USS Yellowstone AD-41 Norfolk 80-84, SIMA Norfolk 84-88 Retired INow a farmer in the Mts of Va.   IMC(SW) Rich Davis
Title: USN
Post by: cs137 on 12-08-2004 -- 13:01:20
New to this board. Read this thread and had to chime in. I am a retired IM1 also I may have met some of you guys out there. Did a lot of sh*t tank diving and a lot of onsite. 81-99
Sperry
Cape Cod
Pearl Harbor
Cape Cod
Mckee
Sima Texas
Title: USN
Post by: MIRCS on 12-09-2004 -- 20:54:48
cs137...you heard from Tetrault or Willie lately?????
Title: USN
Post by: cs137 on 12-12-2004 -- 17:45:13
Haven't seen Tetrault since Sima Ingleside 4 years ago. Can get ahold of him If you want. Williams has been lost to me for just as long. Could not reach him at all. I think Jon may know where he is. Shoot me a pm I want to know who I'm talking to.
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