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Years Served: 3 years on Coral Sea 24 years total Navy…Served aboard from 1985 – 1988 as CATTC Air Controlman and CATTC Supervisor. Retired ACCS. Highlight of my career on Coral Sea was Operation El Dorado Canyon (Libya FON Ops). Awarded Coral Sea Sailor or of the year in 1986…got shot in the leg in Naples, Italy on New Years night along with a YN from Air Ops…what a liberty that night! Write me a note at frostair@comcast.net.

Years Served: Feb. 1964 To Mar. 1968…Worked in after HEAF pump room and sometimes on the flight deck fueling planes. Had a great time and had many friends and shipmates.

Years Served: 1972-1976…I worked in G division on flight deck and in foward bomb assy.

Years Served: 1977…I made the ’77 cruise as a member of VA95, the Green Lizzards which was an A-6 Intruder squadrom out of Whidbey Island Washington. I was an aviation ordnanceman second class. I remember the water out of the scuttlebutts tasting of jet fuel and the stack gas smelling pretty bad on the flight deck. I also remember great shipmates and being young and having a great time. Drop me a line and say hello! John Aldrich

Years Served: sept. 1960 march 1961…was a great time in my life. good times, good friends, good memories!