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Years Served: 1963/1966 uss mars afs1…HI all july 18,1965 on the uss mars afs 1 just got off the yankee station ,south china sea after30 days of high lining stores to the fleet ,heading for R&R hongkong , in the engine room on the throttles , the engine order telegraph rings up from 1/2 power to full ahead, over the head set I hear a ship ran aground ahead of the mars,so about afew days later we found out where PRATAS REEF was and what it caught , the FRANK KNOX SO THE MARS supported the salvage operation why because we had the FOOD aug 25 1965 ,well the mars spend 30 days on the line and 38 days with the KNOX 68 days at sea thanks to the knox, the mars went to cowshon ,Taiwan with the knox 68 days of pay watch out ,so why did the the knox run into the reef, we never were told ??? :?:

Years Served: 1954…MM2/c last ship served on prior to discharge in may 1954. transfered from Hanson DDR 832 due to short timer status. no first class machinist were on board during my stay. so i was senior NCO under the chief machinist mate

Years Served: 1946-1947…Don’t know how many of my old shipmates are still out there but if they are I’d like to hear from them. I served in the Aft Engine Room as a MM3/c under John Flynn MM1/c and Frank Liz MM1/c when we patrolled the China Coast on Occupation Duty.Now retired from Grumman Aerospace Corp, and living in Long Island, New York.

Years Served: Dec 1951 Feb 1953…Hi all,

Years Served: 1951-1955…BM3