| Tom is a Vietnam Veteran and
served aboard the USS Arikara ATF 98, the USS Abnaki ATF 96, the USS
Conserver ARS 39 and the USS Lipan ATF 85, all out of Pearl Harbor.
Additionally Tom served aboard the USS Rehoboth AGS 50, the USS Virgo AE
30, the USS Peoria LST 1183 and some shore duty at NAAS Whiting
Field in Florida and COMPHIBPAC in San Diego. He entered the Navy in
1955 as a Fireman Apprentice, becoming an Electricians mate, Chief Warrant
Machinist and retired
as a Lieutenant (6300). Tom retired to the port coast of the USA
and lives in the idyllic mountain region of Bend, Oregon after more than
twenty years in the Navy.
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Rich is a Vietnam Veteran and
served aboard the USS Lipan ATF 85 out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii from 1966
to 1969, after a short assignment to Barber's Point Naval Air Station,
also in Hawaii. He entered the Navy in 1965 as a Seaman Apprentice
and left as a Boatswain mate Second Class.
Rich retired on the starboard coast of the USA in Medford Massachusetts
after twenty two years in Medford's Fire Department.
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