Bob Patton writes:

Lots of the people I met in SecGru and on the boats were truly remarkable
people. I think guys like us had the best of both worlds - we could go on
really interesting trips on the boats, but weren't part of the crew, didn't
have to do all the grunt work, and could return to our "normal" lives in
places like Kamiseya (suburb of Tokyo/Yokohama) when the interesting work
was done.

Bob

I was in Kamiseya for two years. The Willie Victor crews flew out of Atsugi
NAS across the rice paddy from our tunnel. Great liberty town, Yokohama.

The only thing I didn't like about the trips was if there was trouble. we would
be the first to go - if'n ya know what I mean. I look back at those days and
have no regrets. Glad I did it. I got on the Trident her first deployments
after the around the world trip. Helluva nice bunch of guys. Crazy as loons.

SecGru has an organization, btw. U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association.
There is a membership list (around here somewhere), so if you have any names
and wonder where they are, let me know. Their website is
http://www.usncva.org/
They publish a news letter every quarter. It's a great source to find out
who's died. d;o(


Dave

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