| Wednesday November 25, 2009 - 10:11 PM |
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Name: Bob Thomas |
No Email Address
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: RAT |
| Rank/Rate: AR-ADJ3 / AD1-ADC |
| Years in Squadron: 1974-1977 / 1989 - 1992 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: Fixer |
| Aircraft Type: A7E / F-18 |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 / VFA-27 |
| Stationed At: Lemoore |
| Deployments: Allot |
| Comments: Havn't been in this site for awhile and very glad its still up, I noticed a bunch of names from the past, glad to see you guys found this great site. I was a 2 tour Mace, first from 74-77 and made both cruises on the Big E, both of the cruises turned out to be best of my 24 years. The parties we had in P.I were the best. Second tour was from 89-92, cruised on the Chucky V, made the last A7 cruise with them and had the best mech shop ever, the highlight of that tour was making ADC. Retired in 1997 and now living in Fallon, NV. I currently work at the Topgun school as a Plane Captain and love my job. Thanks for memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Sunday October 25, 2009 - 12:47 PM |
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Name: Bruce Smith |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: Smitty |
| Rank/Rate: AK3/E-4 |
| Years in Squadron: 72-75 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: Support |
| Aircraft Type: A7E |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 |
| Stationed At: NAS Lemoore, CA |
| Deployments: 72 & 74 Westpac |
Comments: Worked in the material shop with Lt. Rockwood and Lt Schramm, Carlblom, Vlasic, Murphy, and AK2 Brown. Had some great times including liberty in Olonapo, Hongkong. The motorcyle days at LeMoore and living off base in Hanford (Parties). Still think about the loss of PO Richter and Shumacher. I see the names on the Vietnam Wall of the shipmates lost on the cruise. Still haunts me to this day. Once a Mace always a Mace. Hope to hear from some of the ole troops some day.
I reside in Texas with wife, kids, grandkids, and pets. |
| Saturday August 22, 2009 - 11:08 PM |
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Name: catalino matos jr |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: nino |
| Rank/Rate: azan |
| Years in Squadron: 3 years |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: q/a |
| Aircraft Type: f-18 |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: va-27 to vfa-27 |
| Stationed At: n.a.s. lemoore,ca |
| Deployments: westpac and operation restore hope |
| Comments: the best 3 years of my life i do not regret it at all i saw and did things must people dream of i wish i would have stay in to those that are in have fun and be safe |
| Saturday August 15, 2009 - 06:20 PM |
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Name: Tom Ewell |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: surfer |
| Rank/Rate: AN/Plane Captain |
| Years in Squadron: 1987-1990 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: Plane Captain |
| Aircraft Type: A7 -E Corsair |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 |
| Stationed At: NAS Lemoore |
| Deployments: North Pac and 2 West Pacs |
Comments: Had a great time and met alot of interesting people who we made a lifetime of memories with!!! Lots of good times!!! Got out a little early because I wouldnt rat on our fellow brothers in the squadron who were acused of doing wrong. You know who you are!! Your Welcome!
It's good to keep in touch w/ old friends!!! Give me a shout. Look me up on facebook. Tom Perkins Ewell! Aloha |
| Saturday July 18, 2009 - 06:56 PM |
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Name: Alan Anthony |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: Al |
| Rank/Rate: AME-2 |
| Years in Squadron: 1976-1979 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: Fixer |
| Aircraft Type: A7-E |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 |
| Stationed At: Lemoore & USS Enterprise |
| Deployments: 1976 & 1978 |
| Comments: I was very pleased to find this great site. I have many good memories of my days in VA-27. After my TAD in the Lemoore gym/Enterprise laundry, I worked out of the AME shop for about a year. I then went to troubleshooters/final checkers, working out of the line shack. No job I've had since can match the excitement of working on the flight deck. The best part of those days was spending time with my squadron buddies. Greg Williams, Ray Kohlsted, Mike Parker, Steve Drayton, Kevin Glodo, Sam Crumm, and many others. Thanks again to Jimmy McMath, for saving my life in the Phillipines. I still owe you big time. Keep up the great work on this site. |
| Wednesday May 27, 2009 - 03:50 PM |
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Name: MATT LANE |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: NOOB SAIBOT |
| Rank/Rate: AO3 |
| Years in Squadron: 1996-2000 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: ordie |
| Aircraft Type: FA-18C HORNET |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VFA-27 |
| Stationed At: NAF ATSUGI CV-62, CV-63 |
| Deployments: WESTPAC '97, AND MANY MORE |
| Comments: alot of good memories in those years. "THEY WERE CONES!!". well since the good ol days iv'e been keeping pretty busy. i'm a professional poker player now, tearing up the k.c. casinos. look me up on facebook or my e-mail is lanematt@charter.net |
| Friday February 27, 2009 - 09:01 PM |
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Name: Ron Jordon |
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| Rank/Rate: E-4 |
| Years in Squadron: \'85-\'88 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: Fixer |
| Aircraft Type: A-7E |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 |
| Stationed At: N.A.S. Lemoore |
| Deployments: WEST-PAC '86-'88 |
| Comments: Travbro, send me an email and no I'm not sore at you for smashing a hole in my wall. Mike Ferrini do you still play drums? yes I'm still a lousy Jazz guitarist. Where's Art Phillips? Did he ever wake up from smashing that statue into his head? Miss all of you guys. A wife and three kids later, I think I'm starting to grow up. |
| Wednesday December 24, 2008 - 08:48 PM |
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Name: Pedro Rodriguez |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: "Rod" |
| Rank/Rate: E-6/AO1 |
| Years in Squadron: 2 YRS |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: AO/TROUBLESHOOTER |
| Aircraft Type: F-18 "SUPERHORNET" |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VFA-27 |
| Stationed At: ATSUGI JAPAN |
| Deployments: Cross Deck KittyHawk-George Washington |
| Comments: The only AO Troubleshooter!!! eat your heart out Deal :) |
| Wednesday December 03, 2008 - 09:27 PM |
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Name: RICHARD YOUNG |
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| Rank/Rate: ADJ3 |
| Years in Squadron: YEAR & HALF |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: FIXER-POWER PLANT SHOP |
| Aircraft Type: A-7E |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 |
| Stationed At: NAS LEMMORE |
| Deployments: 76 WESPAC |
Comments: Came over from VA-122 with a bunch of the guys I worked with in the power plant shop, To make the WESPAC CRUISE on the USS ENTERPRISE.
Special times, and friends The PI, HOBART TAZMANIA, If any of the old gang I worked with in the power plant shop read this drop me a line. Have lots of pictures to share with you. P.S I bought 3 cruise books and never got them when we got back. Anyone got one! I have never seen it. Looking for my shipmate STEVE ROCK, you out there buddy? |
| Wednesday September 10, 2008 - 01:12 PM |
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Name: Nick Eiberger |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: Boog/ Cornfed./ Wrestling |
| Rank/Rate: AME3 |
| Years in Squadron: 1997-2001 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: PC/ AME Troubleshooter |
| Aircraft Type: F/A18C |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VFA-27 |
| Stationed At: Atsugi Japan |
| Deployments: westpacs |
| Comments: Hope all who knew me get in touch.... Looking to BS with ya.. I'm currently working for a Regional Brewery here in Kansas City Mo, Boulevard Brewing Co.. If ya'll want some good beer we have it... Check out the website www.boulevard.com you will see pic's of me there... neiberger@gmail.com and neiberger@boulevard.com If your having trouble remembering me I was the guy who went to Navy wrestling year... Holler Back |
| Sunday July 20, 2008 - 06:58 PM |
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Name: KAITLIN DEAL |
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| Rank/Rate: AT2(AW) |
| Years in Squadron: 2003-2007 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: TECH/TROUBLESHOOTER |
| Aircraft Type: F/A-18C & F/A-18E |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VFA-27 |
| Stationed At: ATSUGI, JAPAN |
| Deployments: USS KITTY HAWK, MULTIPLE |
| Comments: MACE IN YOUR FACE |
| Thursday June 26, 2008 - 10:24 PM |
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Name: David Berber |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: Berber |
| Rank/Rate: AME1 |
| Years in Squadron: 2000-2003 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: Support |
| Aircraft Type: F/A-18C |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VFA-27 |
| Stationed At: NAF Atsugi |
| Deployments: Various, and Beach Det |
| Comments: I miss Japan, but the reserves isn't bad either. Currently with VR-57 at NAS North Island flying the C-40's around as a loadmaster. It's good to get to see some of the old Maces around. Shoot me an e-mail anytime! |
| Thursday June 19, 2008 - 09:27 PM |
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Name: Don Newnam |
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| Rank/Rate: airman |
| Years in Squadron: 1975-1976 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: |
| Aircraft Type: A-7 Corsair |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 |
| Stationed At: NAS Lemoore |
| Deployments: West Pac 76 |
| Comments: Deployed USS Enterprise West-Pac 76 will never forget all the good times and the bad. Highlights were becomming a shellback P.I. in Olongopo, and the trip to Hobart Tasmania. Had some good friends Grabski, Cameron, Ferrin, and Davidson.Wish I was back in now. |
| Friday April 11, 2008 - 12:22 AM |
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Name: Eric Walker |
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| Rank/Rate: AT2 |
| Years in Squadron: 1972-75 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: Support, AIMD, ECM/RWR repair |
| Aircraft Type: A-7E Corsair II |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 |
| Stationed At: NAS LeMoore |
| Deployments: 72/73 74/75. (CVAN-65) |
| Comments: Wow, the memories. Made me pull out the cruise books. Was with the squadron from 72-75. Two westpacs. I was AIMD, repairing ECM and RWR equipment. In 72/73 we were flying alpha strikes into North Vietnam, and in 74/75 we were flying strikes into (God knows where-secret). Anyway, the pilots were busy and the SAMs gave our equipment a workout. I remember that a couple of pilots were targeted by SAMs and when we pulled into port, smuggled a bottle of Jack Daniels aboard as a gesture of appreciation. Memories? Cdr. Bud Edney...best skipper I ever had. Captain C.C. Smith, skipper of the Big E - always jogged with everyone on the flight deck. Fallon memories: LtCmdr Gravely getting punched-out by some hippy dude at a bar in Fallon, NV. Also remember being at a bar in fallon (I think it was named 'Moms') and the senior officers were making the junior officers buy pitchers of beer. As I recall, a new ensign pee'd in a pitcher and all hell broke loose when the other officers found out what they were drinking. Also remember Lt. Parker taking a small group of us out to the bombing range on a day when the skipper (Cdr. Edney) and the CAG commander were doing practice. At the end of practice they buzzed the targeting towers. I remember the two planes coming at us eyeball level across the valley floor, pulling up just before hitting the tower. So close you could feel the hot jet exhaust. Memories while deployed: The smell of dirty laudry at the end of a 30 day line period (no one ever did laundry at sea...we stored it and had it washed when we pulled into subic.) The big fire on the forward hangar deck at the end of a work-up just before our 74/75 deployment. The EA-6B 'cold cat shot'...2 RIOs lost?. The midnight loss of Petty Officer Ritchie (?)... man overboard. Crossing the equator. The drug overdoses in the squadron after leaving Hong Kong. The theft of hundreds of sodas from the VA-27 Officer's coke mess. Wow. Memories I haven't thought about in years. I'm now a civilian living in Camarillo, CA. NAS Pt. Mugu is near by. And although I left VA-27 in 1975, I still visit friends regularly who live in Lemoore. Do you ever get the thrill of smelling jet fuel exhaust out of your system? |
| Friday March 07, 2008 - 05:10 PM |
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Name: Steven Murphy |
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| Nick Name/Call Sign: Steve |
| Rank/Rate: AZ2 |
| Years in Squadron: 1 1/2 |
| Driver/Fixer/Support: Support |
| Aircraft Type: A7E |
| VA-27 and/or VFA-27: VA-27 |
| Stationed At: Lemore, CA |
| Deployments: 1974-1975 |
Comments: I was an AZ-2 working under Chief Fred Harrel. Co-workers were Bob Carlblom & Vlasic. Was with the Maces aboard the Enterprise during my last cruise in 1974-1975, flew off in the COD a few days before the fall of S. Vietnam. I just found the VA-27 website and it sure brought back some memories. I remember getting to know a lot of the pilots, ie: Mike DiBello, since we handled all the gripe sheets (My favorite: "relief tube too short, checks out OK on enlisted men!").
The most memorable port was Mobassa, Kenya (Bob Carlblom & I took a few days leave and rode a bus to Melindi, met a couple of American schoolteachers & had an absolute blast). That was when the QE2 was also in port so we decided to get away from all the British tourists.
I'm a petroleum geologist now and the wife & I live in central Kansas.
I've got a lot of great photos I'll try to scan and send in to the website. |
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