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SEA STORIES
Last Updated
08/15/2008
Bio's, Last Received - First Shown
12/13/00
Billy C.
Millican CE1 Retired
Trying to
take up the slack where Alan left off, he has done an excellent job maintaining this web
site! Hope that I can keep it up to your expectations!
Made the
last trip in country with NMCB 121 short jaunt in Bravo the transefered to H Bcmillican@aol.com
4-18-00
William A. (Bill) Macklem, LT, CEC, USNR
Good afternoon. This is my first visit to the MCB 121 Web page and I would like to
add my name to the muster list. I served with MCB 121 from 7/68 thru 9/70,
including the second and third deployments. I served as the MLO (Material
Liaison Officer) in Gia Le and as the Detachment Marble Commander in Da Nang.
Thanks for organizing this effort. Best regards, Bill
bmacklem@cs.com
3-21-00
Ray Singleton, CE2 (AKA Gopher)
I was in MCB 121 from 1967 to 1970. I deployed to Phu Bi at Camp Wilkerson during my
first trip incountry. Then I went back on CB Team 12104 to Gli La down in the Delta on my
second deployment. I was a CE2 and cross rated as a UT for the SeaBee team. I have lost
track of all my Seabee buddies.
charlesrsing@hotmail.com
2-25-00,
George N. Nix CMC
Dear Chief Kane
This letter is from George N. Nix CMC-Quit after 16 years because I wanted to and other
reasons that you get married for, so you are still alive, that's nice, I am
still alive too, but nobody will attest to it. Presently, I am an under-cover agent
for the salvation army, I sneak up on the bell-ringers and make sure they are putting the
nickels in the pot, and speaking of pot, it is another creative endeavor that I am
seriously thinking about, I just don't like drafty jail cells with guys named
"BUBBA", If you know what I mean! I hope to be in on the reunion festivities
next year, and get sloppy-ass drunk telling embarrassing stories that are highly imbued
with half-truths and exaggerations in a military manner, kinda hope you show up too
because you usually did believe all the stories I told you, and we can catch up on all the
old dead guys and where we think they all went.
G.NIX@mindspring.com
2-11-00 (Info beyond 121)
Don James UT3
My name is Don James. I deployed to RVN with Bravo Co. as a UT3 in Nov. of
69. I was injured in Feb. of 70 while working on a project at FLC. I was
med-a-vaced back to Corpus Christi Naval Hosp. I was medically retired in Oct. of
70.
donjames47@usa.net
2-1-00 (Info beyond 121)
Keith H. Rogers MR2
Greetings,
My name is Keith Rogers and I served a tour of duty with the Seabees in Vietnam. In 1969 I
was a Machinery Repairman 3rd class who got assigned to MCB-121. I was promoted to MR2
while in Vietnam. I returned to Gulfport with my battalion and received orders to
MCB-128. Later, I was assigned to the fleet aboard the USS Detroit AOE-4. The
Seabees helped me to experience Hurricane Camille also. I can be reached at: keithhr@worldnet.att.net
01/31/00
Jim Arnold (BU2) Delta Co.-2nd & 3rd deployments.
I separated from the unit in August of '70 and returned home to
Michigan. Three days after discharge I started school at Michigan State
University. I graduated from State in 1973 and went to work for the Wayne
County Sheriff's Department in Detroit as a patrol officer. In 1978 I received my
masters degree from the University of Detroit in Police Management.
My career with the Sheriff's Department has interesting as well as rewarding.
In the past I have served on several presidential security details as well as being
a member of the personal protection team for Pope John Paul II when he visited
Michigan. Currently I am a lieutenant in charge of jail services.
I am eligible for retirement next January. Since my health is good and the job still
is a challenge, I plan to stick around for a while. In the mean time I have gone
back to school and am working on a degree in computer graphics.
I have one son from a previous marriage and am currently married to a very lovely lady.
LtJNA@aol.com
01/23/00
Arne Hellstrom, CE2
After leaving 121 in 1970 and getting married, I returned to Gulfport with the 20th NCR as
a Military Training Instructor for Rifle and Pistol. After a year in that position I went
home to MD and took a six-month vacation while living off unemployment. I finally took a
job with the phone company (ding ding) and didn’t like it, as it was too much like
working for a senior chief. For the next four years I worked in a quarry shop as a heavy
equipment mechanic.
Then I got the trucking fever, bought a big rig and almost went broke in about a year. So,
I went back to the quarry and drove their trucks for a while. Then I found a great job in
a defense plant in PA as a welder making the M88 recovery vehicle and the M109 tank. Ten
years later, when they tore down "The Wall," the tank building business went
into the toilet and I was laid off. I went back to truck driving for a good company
and hauled heavy equipment all over the entire United States and parts of Canada. All in
all, a good job that let me see a lot of our beautiful country.
But earlier, in 1980, just after I went to work at the defense plant, I was diagnosed with
myasthenia gravis, a form of muscular dystrophy. Fortunately, it was in remission and I
continued to work. Then, in 1992, I suffered a bad fall off a large bulldozer fracturing a
vertebra. The M.D. remission ended a year later forcing me to quit my real job and go back
to working for the government. Now all I do is sit around, collect my SSI disability, and
do some minor chores while my wife, a letter carrier, continues to work . I love it!
After thirty years of marriage, we have four kids: two boys age 22 and 25, and two
adopted, a boy 13 and a girl 17.
There it is, believe it or not!
dirtyneck@supernet.com*
01/22/00 (Info beyond 121)
Chris R. Shafer, EA2 MCB 121 69/70 Da Nang, MCB74 70/72 Bien
Hoa, Andros island
icedtea@erols.com
01/14/00
Alan F. Kane, CMC USN Ret.
This may confirm what many of you may have thought before. I am a few months away
from 60 and hold an old fart's type of job at a very expensive lifecare retirement center.
I am a security guard/ first responder for emergencies/ driver/ and butler. My current
rating is "Hey, you" and I am responsible for over 200 apartments and villas in
the "Independent Living" side of this operation. After I retired in '76, I
discovered, much to my dismay, that there were not many jobs for a B.S. artist who was an
expert at haircut, uniform, and weapon inspections. Being that I was a mediocre and lazy
mechanic, I went to college for two years and earned an ASET (electronics) degree and can
now claim that I was laid off by Bell & Howell, Floating Point Systems, and other
biggies in the electronics industry. Finally, I earned a small pension from a county
sewerage agency, quit to write a novel that flopped, and now, I am waiting for Social
Security time.
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