Any USS Reuben James (FFG-57) crewmembers or former crew members out there?
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If your a former Sailor (or any military) I strongly suggest you join  www.military.com . It's the best way by far, to get in touch with people you may have served with during your service. I have found a few and can't tell you how much I enjoyed reminiscing about old times.\n\nI served on board both the USS Mount Vernon and the USS Racine as part of a Marine Corps force.
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It feels great to be called US Marine.  That's why I joined.  And I've met three former Army girls in my battalion who had the guts to join up as well.  Obviously I'm not the only one who knows where the best are supposed to be.  Semper Fi.
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I'd start with the Navy Historical Center. The have published a list of the ships present at Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 41, found here:  http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-2.htm\n\nThen, check with:\n The Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 (301-837-3510).  They have muster rolls (crew lists) for all ships from Jan 1941 to 1975.  They also have Bureau of Naval Personnel Casualty Files - which'll tell you who survived the attack.
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go to: www.navy.com \nthere is a message board there
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One of the guys I was in a firefight alongside got a Navy Cross for actions at et Tarimiya (SP).  Up until then, it had been the longest firefight of the war.  We were engaged in small arms fire with the enemy for around 4 hours.
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There is apicture on this site, but could not find any info on the crew.\n\n\nUSS Windsor (APA-55), 1943-1946\nUSS Windsor, a 13,143-ton attack transport, was built at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Originally begun as the merchant freighter Excelsior, she was taken over by the Navy while under construction and launched under the hull number AP-100, which was changed to APA-55 by the time she was commissioned in June 1943. After shakedown, the ship went to the Pacific, where she took part in the Marshalls operation in January-February 1944. During the rest of the year she participated in landings on the northern shore of New Guinea in April and May, at Guam in July, Peleliu in September and Leyte in October.\n\nWindsor was overhauled on the U.S. west coast during late 1944 and early 1945. For the rest of World War II, she transported men and materiel between the United States and the central and western Pacific. After the fighting ended in August, she supported the occupation of Japan and took part in Operation "Magic Carpet", the effort to bring U.S. service personnel home from the former war zone. This duty was completed by early January 1946, and Windsor was sent to the east coast where she decommissioned in March. She was turned over to the War Shipping Administration in August 1946 and subsequently had a long career as a merchantman under the names Paul Revere (from 1947) and Expeditor (from 1949). She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1972.\n\nThis page features our only view of USS Windsor (APA-55).
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I will give you an eyewitness statement. First, I'm not from Texas (I'm a Tar Heel!!! - GO NC!!), second I'm not in the National Guard, I'm active duty. Now the account, I served with an active duty battalion that was assigned 2 National Guard companies - one was from Kansas and one was from Texas. They were truck companies, and both saw heavy action. On a side note, I found both units to be extremely professional in their duties. Neither shirked from any mission assigned to them and had an amazing "Can Do" attitude. If I had any negative comments about the Guard units I have served with - they are minor. I found they had a bit of a height/weight and PT shortcoming, but they more than made up for that with their Mission First attitude. My BC had a board in his office/tent with a collection of all the Guard patches of units we had run into over there. I don't recall a single state missing from his board - we even had a couple territory patches (Guam and PR). So whoever posted that on a Yahoo Board is simply giving into conspiracy BS and once again, as they almost always seem to be - are yapping away and have NEVER spent a day. Isn't it curious how the folks who seem to to come up with this crap have a mysterious lack of service to go along with their tripe?
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I was in B. 37 at Johnson Space Center in the Medical Science Division.  About 50 of us who worked in the building were watching the launch on TV as we did every launch.  I had built an experiment box for one of the crewmembers to use. It was a space motion sickness experiment.  The person seated in front of me said "oh no, that's not right" prior to the "explosion".  About 5 seconds later, it broke up.  It wasn't really an explosion by strict definition.  The pressurized crew cabin seperated and it fell into the ocean after reaching about 57000 feet.  It broke up most likely on impact.  The person sitting in front of me noticed the anomalous plume and knew something was terribly wrong.  One of the crewmembers family lives behind me, 2 houses over.  \n\nI am answering this question in a non-official capacity of course, but I have to say it.
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Any chane you have any idea of his ship? If so contact the ship and they'll forward the email for you. Also try firstname.lastname@navy.mil or know anyone else in the the navy or someone on here, have them look it up on outlook. Good luck, I'd look it up for you but disabled so they pay me not to work
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For me it was when I made Sgt E-5.  I was already Supply Chief for my battery as a Cpl in a Gunny billet!  There was a LOT of resentment from the other SupChfs because they were all Staff Sgts and weren't picked fo the job.  My billet was at HqBtry 11th Mar, and so although I was junior in rank, I was senior in billet to all of them.  Once I made Sergeant, and brought the unit up in its inspections, I got the respect and deference I had EARNED, which is the best way after all.  Semper Fi, and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
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go to www.anysoldier.com i am on there.PFC Alissa Ball-Simard, if you wat someone specific
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not in spirit, but maybe in age. anyway, thank you for your previous service and your desire to serve again. we could use lots more like you. God bless.   BM
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SEMPER FI!\nHappy Birthday, sister & brother Marines
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you could try going to cnrc.navy.mil and selecting the rating fact sheets link it should list RP and give you a good description along with the duties you will be performing. Good luck \n\nSTS2
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http://www.thomascookairlines.co.uk/Cabin_Crew.htm\n\nThere is a picture at the above link
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FRG meetings and participation are totally voluntary.  I personally reccomend getting involved with yours....but if you have had a lot of issues with the unit I can't blame you for not wanting to be a member.  My husband and I just got up to Alaska, and I joined the FRG just so that I had other women to be around, at least once a month! LOL(My husband left for Iraq only a month after arriving here)  You wil be amazed...you can meet some really great people; of course, there will be the b*tches too....we have one member who informed us at the last meeting that we needed to start finding childcare for meetings, she obviously has NO children!
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Check out this site...\n\nhttp://www.mwr.navy.mil/mwrprgms/hrtraindoc.htm