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KODIAK NS - MESSAGE BOARD

6 Messages Since 3-14-00

Posted 4-15-01
PFC Roger R Barber, 1965 - 66
rbvolk@yahoo.com

Trying to locate PFC Gilbert Rosales or Cpt. Thomas Buckley from the same time period.

Posted 3-10-02
PFC Don Cole, 1964
dlkole@bignetnorth.net

Hello all you guys that was there on March 27, 1964, That was one day to remember, and all that free whiskey we had  for weeks to come. To all of the top side guys:: Hope some of you read this!!

Posted 11-30-03
Cpl Dennis Sulka, Corporal of the Guard, May 66' to June 67'
djs11@earthlink.net

Anyone out there from the same time?  Many fond memories of the best times.  My assignments included; Main Gate, Patrol in those ugly gray Pick-ups, and you couldn't drive all the way around the road past the abandoned warehouses at high tide because of the island sinking after the '64 quake.   Why me!!!, because I was the radio operator, "Artic Survival School", Fairbanks in January.  Standing Port and Starboard watches, colors in the dark at 0800 in the winter and bringing it down about 5 hours later.  AAUW: The cubes, towers and blockhouse.  Listening to a sleeping Marine in the barracks, call "AUW all secure", every 15 minutes like clockwork from the habit of reporting while assigned to the blockhouse.  The strange sightings out to sea, and the sounds of the "train", only there wasn't one on the whole island.  Was there?   The compass training / R&R to Afognak and the bear hunts.  Our beloved Club on the hill and the call of "muster", since we were always out numbered in our own club, and weren't allowed in any others.  Many others, but I'll leave you with the "Bug Eater".  The time that I don't remember who, but after finding something huge in town on liberty, came back to the base.  A six-by was backed up to the barracks for a stage, and the hat was passed for donations.  After consenting to the removal of the pinchers; he did it, but did spit out the wings.   I remember our CO. Maj. Wilson,  Capt. Tomlin, and Sgt/Maj. Spincola who brought me up for "Office Hours" tarnishing my otherwise exemplary record of duty extrordinar (but that's another story).  B.J. Aragon ( I still have the Rollingstones album I bought from you), Harold Glen Casey, who I last saw in Nam, Tomes (our boxer), Bradley (our Brig Chaser) from the "Red Line Brig".  Many other faces that I remember, forever in their youth, but time has taken away the names.   I left Kodiak for Vietnam and my radio MOS got me to the Air Naval Gunfire platoon for the 3rd Div. and assignment to various units along the DMZ that needed an F.O.   Made Sgt. and my fellow ANGF team leaders, during our all to infrequent re-unions, never let me forget that I was a "Leg".  Most of me came back and I've been a Deputy Sheriff in Southern Cal since I came back to the states in 69'.   I hope all my friends from Kodiak made it too... Welcome Home.  Wish there was some way to get the records of our T.O. and some how reach all the NAS Kodiak Marines for a re-union.  Not to many postings from Marines on this website, but I feel better for writing it.   Take care and God Bless guys, wherever you are.  Semper Fi. 

Posted 6-28-05
L/Cpl Conrad Moreno - Jan. 1966 / Feb. 1967
MorenoC@pendleton.usmc.mil

Hello to all you jar-heads who served on the big rock. Cpl Sulka, sorry I do not remember you at all but, then again, it was a long time ago. You bring back fond memories when you talk about the compound and the roving patrols. Artfulduke 1 and 2, do you remember that name? Do you remember the long stair-way leading up to the E-club? How about that little movie theater in town? The small heating bar at one corner of the towers? Just to refresh your memory, I was one of the boxers on the boxing team. I was the middleweight who went to Anchorage for the state championship of 1966. I remember TOMES, but forgot what weight class he was in. Do you want to hear something funny? When I arrived there at the airport, my sea bag didn't get there with me. I had to put my uniforms back together piece by piece. Other Marines helped me out by giving me socks, skivvies, t-shirts, and what ever they could. Thanks guys! You know, they never found that sea bag of mine. Wonder where it is.

It's been 38 years now since then and I have decided to take my wife of 37 years to Kodiak for our second honeymoon. Hope they will let us on the base to visit because I would like to show my wife around the old place. The PX, the barracks, the e-club, the flag pole, and the gee-dunk cafe.

By the way, when I got back to the lower 48s, I trained at Camp Pendleton for 11 months with 5th Force Recon and went to Vietnam in 1968. I hooked-up with 1st Force Recon at Phu Bia combat base. Made Sgt e-5 and got out in Sept. 1969. Went back to Texas for 17 years with the Houston Fire Dept. and now live in WILDOMAR CA. Riverside County. I have been here in Southern Ca. for almost 17 years.

Looking foreward to more postings, 10-8 break 10-45, is that a 10-4?

Posted 7-08-05
Sgt Gerry Schaller, 1965 - 1967
insuranceman54@hotmail.com

I was stationed at Kodiak from 31 December 1965 to 1 October 1967.  It was great duty with some of the best Marines I ever served with.  The best part of being stationed there was that my daughter was born at the Navy hospital under the care of a great corpsmen by the name of Skip Craig.  If anyone has heard or seen him please let me know how to contact him as he is my God Son and I have not heard from him in years.  It would be great to hear from anyone else that was stationed with me also, we had a great group and I am sorry to say some of them are not with us any more.  I think about little Brown our barber and all the hell he put me through only to give his life for our country.  This is a great site and I hope more Marines post so we can all catch up on one another.

Posted 7-08-05
LCpl Donald Sebastian, 1967 - 1968
sonnygambler@yahoo.com

Would like to hear from anyone there may of 1967 to late 1968.

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