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Years Served: Served right out of boot camp around 1956 or 57 as EM3…Served around 56=57 trip to Japan, transferred on Humanitarian Shore Duty to Naval Reserve base in Nashville, Tn. after death in family transferred to the U.S.S. Greenwich Bay AVP41 in Virginia, sailed to Persian Gulf. Ship was a Navy vessel (sea plane tender and flag ship) but was painted white due to desert heat. Got out of Navy in Virginia Beach, Norfolk area in 1959 and came back to Tennessee where I made my career in law enforcement.

Years Served: 1953-1955…Have fond memories of my tour on board the Erben and was proud to