Ship's Log September 1997

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:25:17 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: Tom De Mott Jr
From: Patuxent River MD
HomePage: Chief De Mott's CPO Page
Email: Tom De Mott Jr
Website: Nice site. Still browsing!

Subject: Re: naval info needed
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:40:03 +0000
Shipmate: Mark W Smith
Hi... I am searching for info for my father-in-law. He served on the USS Colahan DD-658. He loaned all his naval pictures years ago and they were never returned. We are trying to collect as much info as we can for him. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Mark Smith

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:36:13 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: christopher dewayne bowen
From: pearl harbor
Email: cbowen@cchono.com

Subject: The PooP Deck
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:01:15 -0400
From: F.O. White, Jr.
Website: The Mining Company - US Military - Department of the Navy
Hi Rich,
Had a chance to review your site today. You've done an excellent job setting it up! I'll be glad to put a link up in the near future. It may take me awhile because I've not been using the Net Finds like many of the Guides have, i.e. I haven't been putting them in my Resource List. However, after seeing how Brenda was doing it, I decided that was a good idea. I'll probably set up a separate page for that purpose instead of putting the links in the Resource List. though.
By the way, don't know if you are aware that TMC will be "fielding" a new mbody page Monday, 29 Sep. The format is better I think -- gives the Guide more options. When you get a chance, take a look. It may be afternoon before everything is finished, with over 500 sites to change.
Again, great site you've built. Be looking forward to following your progress. Thanks.
Regards,
F.O. White, Jr.

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:34:09 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: Nevins A. Frankel
From: Waldorf, Maryland (20 miles south of Washington, D.C.)
HomePage: US Navy Patrol Squadrons
Email: nfrankel@erols.com
Website: Great to see how the "other" side of the Navy lives (smile)!!

Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:41:17 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: ryan wilmes
From : st. anthony
Website: this site is awsome
Comments :none at this moment

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:57:07 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: Steve Resch, MMCM(SS) USN Retired
Email: sresch@bigfoot.com

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:42:05 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: Jim Gordon
From : Virginia Beach, VA
HomePage: http://www.vabch.com/jewelry/jewelry.htm
Email : jpgordon@vabch.com
Website: Looks like you have a fantastic site. I saw the link to your page on Greg Peterman's "Goat Locker" page
Comments :Glad to sign your guest log. I'm a retired BMCM who spent most of his time with EOD. Now I run a small jewelry business selling military signet rings and pendants. You can see my rings in the AAFES catalog or on the web

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:50:54 -0600
From: Guy Derdall
Organization: Battleships,Carriers And All Other Warships
Hi Richard;
I went through your site this morning and I was impressed. Yes by all means I will add your link and banner. And thank you very much for the award,I'm very honoured! It's what keeps me working on this site.
Thanks a lot and take care.

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:22:34 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: Jim Burke YNC (ret.)
From: La Porte, Indiana
HomePage: http://members.tripod.com/~jimburke
Email : jjkburke@csinet.net
Website : Bravo Zulu! Outstanding!
Comments: Rich - The PooP Deck is a great place to visit. I'll be back often. As a homepage "newbie" I see a lot of things I can learn. I'll put a link to the PooP Deck on my page if you don't mind. By the way I'm #4 on your new CPO Ring. Does that make me a "plank owner" of sorts? :) Keep up the good work.

NOTE: The question I was asked RE, the letter below concerned the old sailor's weather gauge, which is as follows:
Red sky at night, Sailors delight.
Red sky in the morning, Sailors take warning.

Subject: Re: question about sunrise and sunset
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:14:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dalene
Dear Rich T.,
Oh yes, that's it! Thank you very much for helping me out with that saying. I discovered your Navy site while looking for recovery sites. When it first appeared on the screen the graphics made me smile. While I have been a civilian all of my adult life, which is more than a few, I was a military kid all of my kid life. I remember sitting out hurricanes in the Sonar Station in Key West, surf fishing off the gulf coast in Texas, traveling across country seven times (my dad's transfers were always from one coast to the other). I remember standing on the docks and being so proud when the ship came in and I could see the back of my fathers round white hat (that's what it looked like as a kid) and the band was playing. No matter where we went we were always the outsiders and yet I felt like I belonged to most elite group in the world. Well, thanks for letting me take up your time here. I just wrote to thank you for your help. Thank you for the Navy site. It was such a nice surprise.
All the best,
Dalene

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:06:39 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: Rick Penza, former MM1(SS)/ELT
From: Valhalla
HomePage: USS Birmingham (SSN-695) Shipmate Connection
Email: rwpenza@bigfoot.com
Website: For such a new site, very impressive! Well done, Chief
Comments: In case any USS Birmingham (SSN-695) shipmates visit this site, and any others that may be interested...The Bham was inactivated 27 March 97 at Pearl Harbor, with decom later this year, also at Pearl (the 1st nuke boat ever decommed there). The first reunion has been planned for Nov 7-9. Visit my webpage for more info and shipmate contacts.
Thanks, Chief!

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:24:56 -0500
From: Guy Hermann mailto:guy@mystic.org
Website: Mystic Seaport
Many thanks for the award! I like the whole idea of more focused awards. We certainly appreciate your comments and we're glad you enjoyed the pages. I'll see what we can do about getting an awards page up with a link back. Good luck and best wishes with your site.
NOTE: I've included this email in the log because its the first time one of the major Web sites has been considerate enough to reply back to me.
Thank You, Guy!

Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:37:43 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: FCC(SW) Edward Fritz
From : USS Normandy CG-60, Norfolk ,Virginia
Email : cruzemsle@aol.com
Website: OUTSTANDING WEBSITE ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE CAME ACROSS!

Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:05:37 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: ENC(SW) Timothy Cline
From : Fort Madison, Iowa
HomePage: http://home.att.net/~enc.tcline
Email : enc.tcline@worldnet.att.net
Website: Hey Rich great looking website, I'll have to get it tagged to my homepage.
Comments: Amazing who or what you will find on the Web I hear that MHC 60 has an outstanding Main Propulsion Assistant but needs a little help in the Comms dept. Just Kidding. Keep up the good work and thanks for everything.
NOTE: Sure is (smile). Chief Cline is on the ship I just finished helping to build.

Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:45:48 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : James E. Hanson
From : Overton, NV
Email : Deebrat@sisna.com
Website: First-time visitor. Retired E7 as of April,1990.

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:24:51 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: NCCM LINDA M. SUNDBERG
From : YORKTOWN, VA
Email: NCCMLYN@aol.com
Website: I think this is great. I really enjoy everything I saw.

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:18:32 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate: Kathie Kelly
From: Dahlgren, VA USA
HomePage: Kathie's Fresh Deployment Survival Guide
Email : kkelly@crosslink.net
Website : Love the site! Thanks for the featured award!

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:26:08 -0400 (EDT) From : Knoxville, Md
Email : Shawn746@aol.com
Website: Really Nice
Comment : Retired ASCM(AW) Active 05/66-05/90

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:17:53 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : MAC (SW) Ret. David Ernst
From : Cincinnati, Ohio
Email : DErnstB42@AOL.com
Website : Great Web Page. Looking forward to checking the log for former Shipmates. Keep up the good work.

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:28:47 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : Terry Jackson
From : Tulsa Oklahoma
Email : Oldsalt1@AOL.COM
Website : Another super NAVY web.site. The more searching I do the better I like the WWW. Keep up the Great Work.
Comments : Recieved this address from the Goat Locker.
ABEC Jackson

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:13:19 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : Janice Connolly
From : NSGA, Fort Meade, MD
Email : wjcon@erols.com
Website : Another Bravo Zulu --- Great Web Site. I love the music and will definitely be back.
Janice

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 23:26:05 -0400 (EDT)
:Shipmate : HMC FMF/NAC Tracey J. Smith
From : Fleetwood, NY
Email : Nightwatch@cyburban.com
Website : Just droped by Chief look's real good, I like the Music Speak at you soon.
HMC FMF/NAC Tracey Smith USNR
FH 500 CBTZ 22 Det D
FT Schuyler, NY
Active Dty 61 - 66, HM with FMF, spent 1965 in SE Asia, with the FMF
" Semper Fi "

Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2025 22:23:18 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : AMHC PRATT DUKES
From : SALISBURY, MARYLAND
Email : PDUKES0509@AOL.COM

Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2025 18:06:33 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : CTOC(SW) Michael J. Donohoe
From : NSGA Sugar Grove
Email : marnatmb@access.mountain.net
Website : Great Site and music!
Comments : I see from your list of duty assignments you were stationed at RADSTA Sugar Grove.
Small World.
Currently I am ending my tour here at NSGA Sugar Grove. A lot has changed since you were here. Lots of construction currently underway. 23 more housing units to add to the 54 already here. New three deck barracks with galley.

Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 21:11:15 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : AZC(AW) (Selectee) Philip W. Vyce
From : Bureau of Naval Personnel
Email : p404dk1@bupers.navy.mil
devyces@aol.com
Website : This is a great web site. Thanks for making it available.....

Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 04:51:57 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : Hy Spalding
From : Bingham, Maine - 28 years ago
HomePage : Hy Spalding's Web Site
Email : hyspalding@netpci.com
Website : This is a very good web site. Keep up the good work shipmate. I'm new to this so my site isn't even close to yours. Just have to keep trying.
Comments :BMCM(SW/MDV) currently stationed @ EODMU FIVE in Guam. Right on the edge of Westpac. A very good place to be stationed.

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 09:52:23 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : Debbie
From : R.I
HomePage : Gaia's Garden
Email : gaia11@ids.net
Website : Figures navy gray;) How about ocean blue or green:) Great links and info will have to explore again.
(From My sister - one of my favorite critics)

Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 17:36:54 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : YNC Peggy Cook, USNR-R
From : Cadillac, Michigan
HomePage : http://www.netonecom.net/~nanny
Email : nanny@netonecom.net
Website : BRAVO ZULU, Rich! I am truly impressed by your content and visual professionalism. Welcome to the Net with the most-refreshing site to appear in some time. If you should ever need anything, all you need do is ask a fellow chief! Comments :I WILL be back again! In fact, I will visit often to keep abreast of the "goodies" you've found for me.

Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 13:57:19 -0400 (EDT)
Shipmate : Richard A. Tucker
From : Hardeeville South Carolina
HomePage : http://rtucker.simplenet.com/navindex.htm
Email : rtucker@hargray.com Comments :The official Opening of the Log Book

Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:28:21 -0400
Shipmate : Charlie Joseph
HomePage : http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/5922
Email : cjoseph@eagle1.eaglenet.com
Hi Chief,
Greetings from an airdale. Found your site(s) from The Goat Locker. Enjoyed them. I invite you to mine.
Charlie Joseph ATC USN (retired)
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Sure, no problem on the deep linking. If folks want to visit our other pages, they're all linked back through our main page and menu pages. As far as the midis are concerned, I made my "confession" on our main home page. I gathered a bunch, when I was ignorant of giving proper credit.
Thanks for the nice comments! When you do get a chance, I hope you enjoy the GSD pages too. I can stay up late, I'm on vacation this week! P.S. Forgot to say, I will add your Poop Deck, if that's OK!
Charlie

Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:14:14 -0700
Shipmate : MMCM(SS) Greg Peterman USN Retired
HomePage: The Goat Locker
Email: mmcmss@earthlink.net
The Poop Deck site is absolutely terrific. It is very well done and I would be proud to display your Poop Deck award. I like the format and layout. Well done shipmate.
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MMCM(SS) Greg Peterman USN Retired