Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Nine

1959-Apr61, CV-40 Tarawa, CV-9 Essex, CV-15 Randolph Quonset Point Plane capt. 53 Med cruise Remember the Nerdy guy who came up with the name Sea Griffins and that 48 cad he drove

1962 October fatalities Lt. Cmdr James Robert Hughes. His son Charles E Hughes

1963-1966, AX3, Plane Captain, and worked in operations after tour on the flight line. Experienced flying under the bridge!!!!!! And following road signs at low altitude (tree top) to get back to Quonset in a fog bank from Martha's Vineyard. Was aboard the Essex, with the squadron (HS-9) during the hurricane in the north Atlantic. That was voyage I will never forget. Two Names stick in my mind(Griffen and Dormant). Maybe someone out there can come up with a few more from the era..... I spent my last 6 mo on shiore patrol assigned NAS Quonset Pt. Oh yeah I left my class ring (Holland High School Class of 63 in the gym in Quonset. If you got it I want it back

1980, participated in the movie The Final Countdown

1981-1984 I was a plane captain A/F trouble shooter USS Nimitz 2 Med and 2 Caribbean USS Carl Vincent 1 Caribbean. I beleive 610=148995, 611=149898, 612=148995, 614=149734, 615=149735,616=152132,617=SH=3D=149000. We nick named 617 The Truck,received it from Rota Spain 82-83 cruze. I beleive it went to the Ike. and heard later that it had crashed.