Looking for friends who served from August 1972 to when we came home to Seattle in 1973. Lots of love to all who served then.
I served as QMC 1972/1973 and still don’t know how I slept in the Chiefs quarters with the forward gun mount blazing away when we were on the gun line. Remember when that wire guided missile landed just off the starboard bow with all the ammo staged on the focsle. The Captain was sitting in his chair and immediately ordered flank speed. Since we were basically spinning as necessary off the coast, it seemed like an eternity before we got some headway.
Then after Vietnam Nam we changed homepotrts
To Seattle. Seemed like it rained every day there.
We went to Anchorage for Navy Day and coming
Back we hit one helluva storm.
Great times in Subic of course, good times with great crew.
Spent 30 years and retired as an LCDR,
Proud to have served on the Eppy!
Please update my personal info;
Name: Alfonso Pena
Address: 8741 E. Jacaranda st
Mesa, AZ 85207
Phone: 540.429.4862
We (USS Benner DD807) sailed with you in 1967 in the Gulf of Tonkin and along the North Vietnam coast. Somewhere during that WESPAC deployment we ether transferred personnel or parts and some one on the Epperson took at shot of the aft section of the Benner at full breakaway. Visible in the 03 ECM Shack was a sailor in the hatch looking back at the Epperson. That sailor would be me. I was the ECM ET at the time and that was my work station.. I’d love to get a copy of that picture.. I saw it once but was unable to copy it. Thanks in advance.. Clifford Foote ETn3
searching for any info as to a boxer tied to the USS Epperson. The boxer was named Huie . Hope someone has some information. He had duty with the destroyer while based in HAWAII
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Looking for friends who served from August 1972 to when we came home to Seattle in 1973. Lots of love to all who served then.
I served as QMC 1972/1973 and still don’t know how I slept in the Chiefs quarters with the forward gun mount blazing away when we were on the gun line. Remember when that wire guided missile landed just off the starboard bow with all the ammo staged on the focsle. The Captain was sitting in his chair and immediately ordered flank speed. Since we were basically spinning as necessary off the coast, it seemed like an eternity before we got some headway.
Then after Vietnam Nam we changed homepotrts
To Seattle. Seemed like it rained every day there.
We went to Anchorage for Navy Day and coming
Back we hit one helluva storm.
Great times in Subic of course, good times with great crew.
Spent 30 years and retired as an LCDR,
Proud to have served on the Eppy!
Please update my personal info;
Name: Alfonso Pena
Address: 8741 E. Jacaranda st
Mesa, AZ 85207
Phone: 540.429.4862
We (USS Benner DD807) sailed with you in 1967 in the Gulf of Tonkin and along the North Vietnam coast. Somewhere during that WESPAC deployment we ether transferred personnel or parts and some one on the Epperson took at shot of the aft section of the Benner at full breakaway. Visible in the 03 ECM Shack was a sailor in the hatch looking back at the Epperson. That sailor would be me. I was the ECM ET at the time and that was my work station.. I’d love to get a copy of that picture.. I saw it once but was unable to copy it. Thanks in advance.. Clifford Foote ETn3
searching for any info as to a boxer tied to the USS Epperson. The boxer was named Huie . Hope someone has some information. He had duty with the destroyer while based in HAWAII