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Title: My next duty station
Post by: ASTAC on October 29, 2005, 07:38:29 AM

Well the waiting is over. I got selected for the ASTAC billet on an FFG in Mayport.

One of the Frigates in the lower part of the station is my next ship USS MCINERNEY FFG-8

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/728_1130589353_mns.jpg)

This is great news...Going back to Jacksonville! Place of my childhood.

Title: My next duty station
Post by: Hangtime on October 29, 2005, 08:08:33 AM

Excellent news ASTAC!  And you'll be near your daughter... always a very very good thing.

Congrats my man.. bout time you caught a break.

Title: My next duty station
Post by: ASTAC on October 29, 2005, 08:12:22 AM

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Originally posted by Hangtime
Excellent news ASTAC!  And you'll be near your daughter... always a very very good thing.

Congrats my man.. bout time you caught a break.

My daughter was my biggest motivation for trying to get back there..now maybe I can see her at least every weekend..instead of once or twice a year.

Title: My next duty station
Post by: CavemanJ on October 29, 2005, 08:25:54 AM

Congrats ASTAC!  Been almost 10yrs since I've seen Mayport... wonder if they ever got Building 51 fixed and underway again =)

Title: My next duty station
Post by: ASTAC on October 29, 2005, 08:34:19 AM

I was there ten years ago..On the SPRUANCE DD-963 (Sadly decommed last March)

Which ship was "Building 51" ?

Title: My next duty station
Post by: CavemanJ on October 29, 2005, 09:04:51 AM

I don't remember her name... just all the laughing we did with friends about it.  She'd been tied up for nearly a year I think it was, and it was said she'd be there for at least another 18months.  I think she was an FFG, but I can't swear to it.  Bout all I can remember from Mayport was the standing joke about Building 51 and people crackin on "The Headshot" (CV67) about how messed it up she was at the time.

We were at King's Bay, but had friends at Mayport and were down there just about every weekend.  The wife was at port services, then the Oakridge, and we moved to Groton with her.