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[Craig]

Welcome to the Navy Trivia section. Every so often I will ask a question about the Navy or a famous sailor. Remember, its not important that you get the answer correct. What is important is that you remember this Navy information so you can pass it along to others....... GO NAVY!

[Tee-1sailor's mom]

I knew this one right away!  I love this "discussion."  Haven't posted on here yet but I enjoy "lurking."

 

[Craig]

Welcome to the Navy Trivia section. Every so often I will ask a question about the Navy or a famous sailor. Remember, it's not important that you get the answer correct. What is important is that you remember this Navy information so you can pass it along to others....... GO NAVY!

I am a famous sailor, who am I?

  

 

I am Larry Flynt, Jr.,  American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP),  most notably Hustler,career-long battling against censorship, and a United States Navy Sailor!

 

Some might call him a pervert. Others call him a patriot. Like him or hate him, this guy is world famous.   A successful movie called "The People vs. Larry Flynt" was produced about his fight to defend censorship.  It starred,  Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love and Edward Norton.  This wasn't a movie about Larry Flynt, the porn king. It's more a movie about the right to say what you want to say, without having to think of every person's opinion first.

 

  

Born Larry Claxton Flynt, on November 1, 1942, in the isolated Appalachian village of Lakeville near Lickskillet Holler,  in Eastern Kentucky's Magoffin County.

  

I  was the eldest of three children born into a poverty-stricken family, where my life was a struggle from the start. There, in the poorest county in America—bootlegging and jury duty were the two big­gest industries—the twentieth century didn't really hit us until around 1950, Nobody had television or household appliances. It was nearly ten years old before any of the roads were paved. And then all they heard were the grimy coal trucks groaning down the steep mountain roads. My family's annual income was $600.

 

In 1951, tragedy struck when my four-year-old sister died of leukemia.  Hard drinking was common in Lickskillet Holler,  as was sexual exploration that would be frowned upon in the suburbs.  At the age of nine, I did it with a chicken, but I had already determined that I liked girls better (I had sex for the first time when I was seven, with a thirteen-year-old from down the road.).  A year later, my family unit began to disintegrate and my parents, Claxton and Edith, separated.  My brother,  Jimmy, stayed with his maternal grandparents; and I ran away before finishing ninth grade because I didn't want to move with my mother to Hamlet, Indiana. 

 

Eventually,  I made it as far as Indiana, but owing to an empty belly, I de­cided I could do better in the Army. I contacted my mother and got her to sign the consent form, and in the summer of 1958, at age fifteen using a fake birth certificate, I was sworn in and sent to Camp Gordon, Georgia. Basic training was the first time in my entire life that I didn't have to think about where my next meat was coming from, or whether I had clean clothes or holes in my shoes. I completed basic with above-average scores, but within the year there was a general cutback in personnel and because I have very low test scores, I was discharged. 

 

! went to Dayton, Ohio, where my mother was now living, and I started washing dishes. Then I worked at the Dayton Mattress Factory for $1.15 an hour. My next job was with the Inland Manufacturing Company, but the pay and the conditions were so bad I decided to become an entrepreneur—a bootlegger. I went back home and began running liquor into Lakeville from nearby Mount Sterling, which was "wet," meaning that liquor could be bought legally. The county sheriff did not approve, and before long I was digging out my old, fake birth certificate and heading back to the military, only this time I visited the Navy recruiting sta­tion. I passed the tests, and soon I was on a bus to the Great Lakes for Navy boot camp.

 

I owe a lot to the Navy. To the extent that I ever became civilized, you might say it civilized me. Even though I was the youngest re­cruit in my company, I was the only one who had been through basic before (in the army), so I had an edge. Before long I was master-at-arms for my company, with the acting rank of petty officer.

 

The pay was still not great, so that's when I teamed up with a buddy to sell Bibles during our off-duty hours. We hit the suburbs near the base, my buddy in a wheelchair pretending to be de­mented. He did such a good job of slobbering and jabbering that the ladies were always anxious to get us off their porch, which meant that we sold lots of two-dollar Bibles, often for more than list price!

 

I think I was a typical American in that I always had my sights set on bigger things, and for me,  being in the Navy, that meant technology. I came out of Radar A school as an eighteen-year-old petty officer, second class, and in 1962, I was assigned to the USS Enterprise, a brand-new nuclear-powered carrier.  I was the operator on duty when the ship was assigned to recover John Glenn's space capsule.  I was honorably discharged in July 1964

 

At a time when most boys were entering their senior year in high school, I had ninety-five men under my command, most of them older than me.  I was an E-5, the youngest second-class petty officer in the Navy at the time.  I was sent to the Officers' CIC (Combat Information Center) school in Brunswick, Georgia, where all the buildings on the base are mock-ups of what the inside of ships look like in the Navy, and people do mock demonstrations and drills. I was one of the people who manned those facilities for the officers. I got some training early on, and I was able to take my advancement course and pass it after I had been there for just a few months.

 

I was the absolute best at what I did. When we went to sea, I al­ways had eight to twelve weeks of starched, pressed dungarees, shirts, and white hats to wear, when everyone else was wearing the old crumpled up ones straight out of the laundry. I set an example for the men who worked for me, and I made sure that I knew each and every one of their jobs better than they knew it themselves. That's why, when President John F. Kennedy came aboard the Enterprise in the fall of 1962, they wanted me to work on the bridge, because they knew that's where the president would come to view the ship.

 

When I met him I had on headphones and 1 was monitoring a tote board for CIC, and Kennedy put his hand on my shoulder and asked what I was doing. I'll never forget the exchange. I started explaining to him the technicalities of what I was up to, and then the captain of the ship came up behind the presi­dent and was making faces at me to make sure I wouldn't say the wrong thing. It was a thrill for me to meet Kennedy in that way—while 1 was doing my job. At that moment, I never could have imagined that fifteen years later, I would be publishing nude photos of his wife.

 

I'd begun supplementing my earnings with poker, and life in the Navy was great.  After a five-year stint in the Navy my enlistment was up in 1964, I returned to Dayton, where he bought a local bar and transformed it into a successful strip club. Within a year he expanded business, opening similar clubs in Columbus, Toledo, Akron, and Cleveland. The establishments quickly gained loyal customers, which influenced me to send out a short newsletter about upcoming events to his growing clientele. 

 

 During the next few years, my life became a whirlwind of flashy clubs, cars, and women. I had fathered four children (all by different mothers) by 1974.  Around this time, he also met a 17-year-old dancer named Althea Leasure, who became his most trusted advisor, eventually managing his 300 dancers. We became a couple married in 1976. 

 

 Fueled by my vision that the artsy layouts of Penthouse and the unattainable models of Playboy alienated the average man,  I  set out to launch his own men’s magazine. Using my newsletter as a template,  I nationally released the first issue of Hustler magazine in 1974. Geared toward working-class men, Hustler’s contents were implicitly anti-establishment and class antagonistic. The publication prided itself on hard core depictions of raw sex, which often included graphic nude photos of disabled, pregnant, and elderly women. One issue featured nude pictures of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, while another depicted a woman being feed into a meat grinder. As expected, the magazine outraged anti-porn advocates and feminists.

 

 From the first day Hustler hit the newsstands, I challenged America’s interpretation of the First Amendment. Over the next few years, my brash style was showcased in a series of closely watched lawsuits that pitted freedom of speech against pornography. In May of 1976, I was indicted on several counts of pandering obscenity and organized crime. The case was significant because it suggested that individual communities had the right to define obscenity. Initially, I was convicted and sentenced to 7-25 years in prison. However, the ruling was later overturned. 

 

 In 1977, a 60 Minutes producer introduced me  to Ruth Carter Stapleton, the evangelist sister of President Jimmy Carter. The two formed a fast friendship, which resulted in my surprising and publicized conversion to Christianity.  I was baptized and began changing the direction of the magazine.  Under the guidance of Stapleton, I altered his mindset about Hustler’s objective, vowing to no longer portray women in such a vulgar manner and no longer publishing pictures of women alone. 

 

In March 1978, alleged gunman and white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin who angered by interracial photos published by the magazine shot my lawyer, Gene Reeves, and I outside a Georgia courthouse.  My injuries included permanent paralysis of his legs, as well as a minor speech impediment. Shortly after, I renounced his enlightened Christian thinking. Althea and I retreated to a lavish Bel Air estate where, over the next few years, we lived in our bedroom behind a steel door. In constant pain, I grew dependent on painkillers, while Althea developed an addiction to heroin.

 

In the fall of 1983, I again challenged the U.S. government when I threatened to publicize surveillance tapes that were potentially embarrassing to the FBI. When I refused to reveal the source of the tapes the courts fined me $10,000 a day. In a display of defiance, I delivered his fine wearing a diaper made out of the American flag. I was tried and convicted for desecration of the flag, and spent six months (from February to July 1984) in a federal prison.

 

I was once again thrust into the national spotlight in November 1983, when Reverend Jerry Falwell sued me for publishing a satirical cartoon, which implied that Falwell had an incestuous affair with his mother. The televangelist filed a libel suit for $45 million with the additional charge of intent to inflict emotional distress. Six months later, a jury found me innocent of libel but awarded Falwell $200,000.

 

In the mid 1980s, Althea was diagnosed with AIDS. She spiraled into a severe depression, which culminated in her death by drowning. She was 34 years old. I was devastated and refocused his attention on my First Amendment crusade. Unsatisfied with the Falwell decision, I appealed the ruling, which was unanimously overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988. The verdict was considered a landmark decision because it constitutionally protected offensive speech aimed at public figures (as long as it did not claim to be fact). The victory seemed to mark a turning point in my life. Once again, I began to focus on his publishing empire, which had miraculously continued to thrive.

 

I currently live in Beverly Hills with my current wife, Liz Berrios, whom I married in 1998.  In 2003, a recall in California of Governor Gray Davis allowed me to campaign as a replacement.  I placed 7th out of 135 candidates, many of whom were fellow celebrities, losing to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

Although many people disagree with the content produced in Larry's magazines, they forget that he has made many important victories in legal battles. He has worked long and hard to preserve the civil rights of expression in the United States, ensuring that people for generations to come will enjoy the same freedom of expression that many people today take for granted. Today, he still remains very active in political and social issues.

 

[Craig]

Welcome to the Navy Trivia section. Every so often I will ask a question about the Navy or a famous sailor. Remember, its not important that you get the answer correct. What is important is that you remember this Navy information so you can pass it along to others....... GO NAVY!

I have something to do with the Navy, what?

Remember the Slinky? The toy that walks down stairs alone or in pairs and makes a slinkity sound? Yes indeed, if you're over the age of 25 or so, you most definitely remember the Slinky, which had one of the most memorable ad jingles of all time. In this classic commercial from the sixties the words are somewhat different from what I remember in the seventies, which obviously means that over the years the jingle had something like a hundred different verses:

The Slinky was invented in 1943 by Richard James, a Navy engineer who was looking for a way to stabilize sensitive instruments on board ships by using springs. When one of his steel torsion springs - a coil that has no compression or tension - accidentally fell off his shelf, he watched it "walk" down to his desk, then a stack of books and then finally the floor. It was a "Eureka!" moment. His wife Betty thought the spring's movements looked "slinky," and the name stuck. The couple managed to convince a Gimbel Brothers department store in Philadelphia to let them display their toy just before Christmas in 1945, and it ended up being a huge hit. Believe it or not, in this day and age of high-tech toys and video games, the Slinky still sells well - more than 300 million were sold by its sixtieth birthday in 2005.

Richard James, however, went kookoo. In 1960, despite being very wealthy thanks to the Slinky, James left his wife and their six kids to join a religious cult in Bolivia. The Slinky was honored in 2001 as the official state toy of Pennsylvania, but James never got to soak it in since he died in Bolivia way back in 1974. Crazy, huh? The Slinky did end up finding a military use - American soldiers in the Vietnam war found it worked well as an antenna for their mobile radios.

 

"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, And makes a slinkity sound?
A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing, Everyone knows it’s Slinky…
It's Slinky, it's Slinky, for fun it's a wonderful toy
It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun for a girl and a boy
- Advertising Jingle

[Craig]

Welcome to the Navy Trivia section. Every so often I will ask a question about the Navy or a famous sailor. Remember, its not important that you get the answer correct. What is important is that you remember this Navy information so you can pass it along to others....... GO NAVY! 

 

I am a famous sailor, who am I?

I am William Frederick "Fred" Durst - American musician, director and actor, known primarily as the front man of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit and United States Sailor!

I was born and raised in Gastonia, North Carolina.  "I was definitely not a good student in school",  I passed cuz I was like kissing my teachers @ss, and pretty much I never did my homework.  I don't even know how I made it, it was like a social event for me.   

It was a place to skateboard and rap and beatbox and break dance pretty much what school was for me, but I did pass.  I did graduate because they couldn't stand me, but that's it, I'm a loser"

During my time in the Navy (1991-1992), I married my first wife, Rachel Tergesen, at the age of 20.  We moved to California, and had one daughter, Adriana.  I served for eighteen months before being released from the Navy on medical discharge after I broke my hand skateboarding.  When I found my wife was cheating,  I filed for divorce, and afterwards I physically abused my ex-wifes new lover and spent a month behind bars. 

In jail I had time to think "I gotta go start over again" so I went back to North Carolina to say good-bye to some friends then I took my car and moved down to Jacksonville, Florida and started all over again.   I was working jobs doing art for people and I started tattooing and it was just getting nowhere.  I was trying to put together some bands mixing all of the styles I like.   I've been rapping since 1982, DJ'ing since 1985 and I've been a punk rocker since 1983.  In late 1994, I co-founded the rap-metal band Limp Bizkit with bassist Sam Rivers;  championed by their friends in Korn,  word of mouth publicity helped land the group a spot on tour with House of Pain and the Deftones.

 I'm definitely a player.  My girl friends include:  Courtney Love, Alyssa Milano, Jennifer Thayer, Carmen Electra, Geri Halliwell, Summer Altice, Britney Spears, Halle Berry, Pamela Anderson, Rachel Hunter (Rod Stewart's Ex), Kimberley Ann Pressler (Miss America), Jamie Bergman.

[Craig]

Welcome to the Navy Trivia section. Every so often I will ask a question about the Navy or a famous sailor. Remember, its not important that you get the answer correct. What is important is that you remember this Navy information so you can pass it along to others....... GO NAVY!

I am a Sailor, Who am I ???................

I am Percy Spencer, Inventor of the microwave oven.

My father died when I was an infant, and my mother soon abandoned the family. I was raised by an impoverished aunt and uncle, and had little formal schooling. In my teens I was intrigued by the burgeoning use of electric power and worked as an electric installer, wiring businesses with power.

I then joined the Navy, where I was sent to radio school, and after being discharged I worked for Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company, a major manufacturer of commercial and military radio equipment that was eventually absorbed into RCA.

I joined Raytheon in the 1920s, and quickly became the company's expert on tube design. During World War II I oversaw the company's exponential increase in manufacturing tubes for military applications, and the mass production of magnetrons (which power radar equipment), which proved of immeasurable value to allied forces in winning that war. An autodidact (self-education or self-directed learning), I held more than 300 patents.

My discovery of microwave cooking was utterly accidental. In a Raytheon laboratory in 1946, I noticed that I felt a tingling when I stood near a magnetron, and the candy bar in my pocket melted. I was not the first to notice this effect, but others had only been fearful, while I was also curious. I brought in raw popcorn, which started popping when I placed it near the magnetron. I then built a rudimentary metal box with a magnetron in it -- the first microwave oven -- and used it to reheat my lunches. After I wrote a report on my findings, Raytheon patented "high frequency dielectric heating apparatus" in 1946, and began selling microwave ovens for industrial use (more than five feet tall, each oven weighed about 750 pounds) in 1954.

Raytheon subsidiary Amana began selling household "RadarRange" ovens in 1967. For my invention, I received no royalties, but I was paid a one-time, two-dollar gratuity from Raytheon -- the same token payment the company made to all inventors on its payroll at that time, for company patents.

[Craig]

Man I tell you, everytime I post this it just ticks me off. I hope it ticks you off too....

Sorry that it's so long, but after reading it, you'll appreciate it....

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~ I am a United States Navy fighting warship.

~ I am commissioned, and still property of the U.S. Navy, and still part of the U.S. Navy inventory.

~ I am the only commissioned U.S. naval vessel that is in the possession of a foreign nation.

~ I was hijacked on the high seas on Jan 23 1968, in international waters by a foreign military force.

~ The last ship to have this happen was over 150 years earlier.

~ It was later found that U.S. spy, John Walker had sold crypto keys to Russia, however, Russia lacked the crypto hardware to use these keys. It knew I was in international waters, but it greatly needed my hardware, so it helped with my capture.

~ I was named after a U.S. city.

~ My crew was 83 people mostly from the Navy "CT" rating. 79 U.S. Sailors, 2 Marines, and 2 Civilians.

~ Of this 83, 82 were captured, and one killed in the line of duty.

~ My crew were held captive for 11 months.

~ My captures kept my crew in inhumane, deplorable conditions, and also tortured them.

~ During propaganda photo sessions, my Sailor’s dutifully smiled for the cameras--and flashed “the bird”, that one-finger salute which my enemies didn't understand.

~ This picture was widely published in newspapers across America. When my captures ask, my crew told them it was "A Hawaiian Good Luck sign". When they figured out what it really meant, they were extremely ticked, and subjected my men to many more severe beatings.

~ My CO was convinced that the enemy was bent on a massacre, so he chose to surrender me to save his sailors’ lives. Because of this my CO was recommended for a court martial.

~ The Secretary of the Navy, John H. Chafee, rejected the recommendation for a court martial, stating, "They have suffered enough."

~ My CO was never found guilty of any indiscretions and continued his Navy career until retirement.

~ My sister ship, USS Liberty, was also doomed. On June 8th 1967, it was sunk by Isreal. FIVE torpedoes were lobbed at the Liberty, one hit amidships and instantly killed 25 U.S. Sailors. A total of 34 U.S. Sailors died in the attack, 172 were injured.

~ Although both I and my sister ship (USS Liberty) suffered similar fates, my CO was recommended for court martial, the CO of the USS Liberty was awarded the Medal of Honor. Even though both actions were within 6 months of each other.

~ Both my crew, and the USS Liberty, contained mostly Sailors from the "CT" rating.

~ Even though I am still captured, over 250,000 people have boarded me, to pay disrespect to both me, and the United States.

~ The U.S. is still technically at war with the country that captured me.

~ When captured, I had an enormous U.S. military force nearby, and within 5 minutes of flying time to help me. Even through I asked for help, no one came to help me.

~ To date, the capture has resulted in no reprisals against my enemy; no military action was taken at the time, or at any later date

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I am the USS PUEBLO (AGER-2), and the only commissioned US Navy warship held captive by a foreign goverenment.

 

The only reason I brought this up is North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il recently fired a missle that is a real concern for all of us.

The US is still trying to get this ship back for political reasons. North Korea is willing to repatriate the USS Pueblo to United States authorities, on the condition that a prominent U.S. government official, such as Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, come to Pyongyang for high-level talks. However, now with all the Nuclear crap going on, this is back to the bottom of the list....

What the ship looks like today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXiFpDoJ28

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bfp5QcbkyU

 

The story ---> http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=588

 

For more info on the USS Pueblo, goto http://www.usspueblo.org

 

Here is a satellite view of the USS Pueblo in North Korea. 
http://www.gearthhacks.com/downloads/map.php?file=21912

 

Q. Did we ever had a clear shot of re-capturing our ship back?

A. Yes, last year 2009, North Korea moved this ship from the east coast to the west coast. The ship enter international waters and the U.S. had a great opportunity to take it back. But the current administration choose not to do it.

Q. Why didn't we get them out of there sooner?

A. Help was promised but never arrived. More than likely, no one wanted to take responsibility for an attack on North Korean vessels attacking Pueblo. By the time President Lyndon Johnson was awakened, Pueblo had been captured and any rescue attempt would have been futile.

Q. If all the Korean's wanted was an admission of guilt why didn't we send it sooner?

A. It's support the idea of agreeing to give in to terrorism. Finally, the US government agreed in writing that the Pueblo was spying on North Korea and offered an apology and a promise not to spy on the nation again. The crew was released at the DMZ between North and South Korea, after which the US then verbally retracted the entire admission of guilt.

Q. Do you know where Commander Bucher is buried?

A. Commander Bucher died on January 28, 2004. He was buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California

Q. Where their Marine's on the ship? What were the rates and ratings of the rest of the crew?

A. There were two Marine's on the ship, the rest were Sailors and two Civilians. Mostly of the CT rating.
Officers:
CDR Lloyd Mark "Pete" Bucher, Commanding Officer Deceased - January 28, 2004 
LT Edward R. Murphy Jr., Executive Officer El Cajon, California 
LT Stephen R. Harris, Research Officer Melrose, Massachusetts 
LT(jg) F. Carl Schumacher, First Lieutenant St. Louis, Missouri 
ENS Timothy L. Harris, Supply Officer Tombstone, Arizona 
CWO-4 Gene Lacy, Engineering Officer Kenmore, Washington

Chief Petty Officers:
CTMC Ralph D. Bouden Yuma, Arizona 
ENC Monroe O. Goldman Deceased May 3, 2006 
CTC James F. Kell (TAD from Kamiseya, Japan) Chula Vista, California 
First Class Petty Officers:
CT1 Don E. Bailey (TAD from Kamiseya, Japan) Portland, Indiana 
HM1 Herman P. Baldridge Chula Vista, California 
CT1 Michael T. Barrett Kalamazoo, Michigan 
EN1 Rushel J. Blansett Oak Hills, California 
YN1 Armando Canales Fresno, California 
SK1 Policarpo Polla "PP" Garcia Oxnard, California 
CT1 Francis J. Ginther Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 
EMI Gerald W. Hagenson Deceased - November 4, 1988 
BM1 Norbert J. Klepac Lewisville, Texas 
QM1 Charles B. Law Deceased - September 25, 2001 
CT1 James D. Layton Cherryfield, Maine 
PH1 Lawrence W. Mack Desceased - March 1, 2003 
CT1 Donald R. Peppard El Paso, Texas 
CT1 David L. Ritter (TAD from Kamiseya, Japan) Hanford, California 
EN1 William D. "Scabbie" Scarborough Deceased - February 26, 1970 
CT1 James A. Shepard Lady Lake, Florida 
Second Class Petty Officers:
CT2 Michael W. Alexander Deceased - April 20, 1994 
CT2 Wayne D. Anderson Waycross, Georgia 
BM2 Ronald L. Berens Belle Plains, Kansas 
SGT Robert J. Chicca, USMC (TAD from Kamiseya, Japan) Bonita, California 
IC2 Victor D. Escamilla Lubbock, Texas 
CT2 Joseph R. Fejfar (Hospitalized in Yokosuka prior to deployment) Kansas City, Missouri 
SGT Robert J. Hammond, USMC (TAD from Kamiseya, Japan) Campton, New Hampshire 
RM2 Lee R. Hayes Columbus, Ohio 
CT2 Peter M. Langenberg South Pasadena, California 
SM2 Wendell G. Leach Deceased - June 5, 1998 
CS2 Harry Lewis Ocala, Florida 
CT2 Donald R. McClarren Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 
ET2 Clifford C. Nolte Menlo, Iowa (last known ) 
CT2 Charles R. "Joe" Sterling Desceased - November 21, 2002 
GM2 Kenneth R. Wadley Woodburn, Oregon (last known) 
CT2 Elton A. Wood Spokane, Washington 
Third Class Petty Officers:
CT3 Charles W. Ayling Roanoke, Virginia 
CT3 Paul D. Brusnahan Trenton, New Jersey 
BM3 Willie C. Bussell Suffolk, Virginia 
RM3 Charles H. Crandell Forsyth, Missouri 
CT3 Bradley R. Crowe Newport, Vermont 
CT3 Rodney H. Duke Collins, Mississippi 
CT3 John W. Grant Portland, Maine 
CT3 Jerry Karnes Pittsburg, Texas 
CT3 Earl M. Kisler Canby, Oregon 
CT3 Anthony A. Lamantia Laurel, Maryland 
CT3 Ralph McClintock (TAD from Kamiseya, Japan) Jericho, Vermont 
QM3 Alvin H. Plucker Ft. Lupton, Colorado 
CS3 Ralph E. Reed Duncannnon, Pennsylvania 
CT3 Steven J. Robin Deceased - July 29, 2008 
CT3 John H. Shilling Mantua, Ohio 
CT3 Angelo S. Strano Greensville, Texas 
EN3 Darrel D. Wright Alma, West Virginia

Non-rated:
Steward Rogelio P. Abelon Mountlake Terrace, Washington 
Steward Rizalino L. Aluague Jacksonville, Florida 
Fireman Richard E. Arnold Sebastapol, California 
Fireman Richard I. Bame Manchester, Michigan 
Fireman Peter M. "Milt" Bandera Shingle Springs, California 
Fireman Howard E. Bland Deceased - July 25, 1992 
Seaman Stephen P. Ellis Henderson, Nevada 
Fireman John C. Higgins St. Joseph, Missouri 
Seaman Robert W. Hill Jr. Orange Park, Florida 
Fireman Duane Hodges Deceased - January 23, 1968 
Seaman Roy J. Maggard Deceased - May 27, 1994 
Seaman Larry J. Marshall Freetown, Indiana 
Fireman Thomas W. Massie Roscoe, Illinois 
Fireman John A. Mitchell Kneeland, California 
Fireman Michael A. O'Bannon Newberg, Oregon 
Seaman Earl R. Phares Ontario, California 
Seaman Dale E. Rigby Ivins, Utah 
Seaman Richard J. Rogala Elk Grove Village, Illinois 
Seaman Ramon Rosales El Paso, Texas 
Seaman Edward S. "Stu" Russell Eureka, California 
Seaman John R. Shingleton San Ramon, California 
Fireman Norman W. Spear Windham, Maine 
Fireman Larry E. Strickland Warner Springs, California 
Fireman Steven E. Woelk McLouth, Kansas 
Civilian Oceanographers:
Harry Iredale, III (TAD from the Naval Oceanographic Office) Fairfax Station, Virginia 
Dunnie R. Tuck, Jr. (TAD from the Naval Oceanographic Office) Carriere, Mississippi

[Craig]

Welcome to the Navy Trivia section. Every so often I will ask a question about the Navy or a famous sailor. Remember, it's not important that you get the answer correct. What is important is that you remember this Navy information so you can pass it along to others....... GO NAVY!

I am a famous sailor, who am I?

 

 

 

 

I am Stanley Kirk Burrell, better known as MC Hammer and a United States Navy Sailor!

I served as a Petty Officer Third Class Aviation Storekeeper (AK), which then crossed to Storekeeper (SK), which has since merged into the Logistics Specialist (LS).   I received an  honorably discharged once my time was up, and went on to become musical celebrity always be remembered for my signature dance style, hit songs like U Can't Touch This, and of course, his trademark Hammer Pants. Sadly, I was also known for my rapid fall from fame and subsequent bankruptcy that made he a punch line in the music business throughout the mid-1990s.

[Craig]

I am a famous sailor (1943-1945), who am I?

- I am Bob Barker, host of the longest-running TV game show -- The Price Is Right

I grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where my mom was a schoolteacher. I went to college on a basketball scholarship, then joined the Navy to fight World War II. I was a fighter pilot. I studied karate under Chuck Norris and other masters for more than twenty years. Even at eighty-something, there's a fair chance I could kick your ass just like I did to Adam Sandler's in the movie "Happy Gilmore".

My longtime beauty Dian Parkinson (Playboy cover girl Dec 1991 & May 1993) sued me for coercing her into sex. I'm a sailor for crying out loud and I admitted to "hanky-panky" but maintained that it was consensual. Parkinson dropped her $8 million sexual harassment lawsuit, saying she couldn't match my budget for lawyers.

I know you're wondering "I thought this was a story about Bob Barker". Ok, I'm a sailor, and Dion Parkinson does have nice rack.. So, I got side tracked....

[Craig]

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I am a famous sailor, who am I?

I am Rear Admiral Grace Murry Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992).

I am the first U.S. Admiral that never served on a U.S. ship. However I have a ship named after me, USS Hopper (DDG-70) which is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. I was a computer geek. I am credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches. The term was made when I actually found a dead moth that was inside the computer which caused the computer to malfunction.

My famous quotes were:
- “If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”
- “From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.”
- “Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.”
- “Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.”
- Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
- "You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people."
- " They told me computers could only do arithmetic."
- " In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers."
- " At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can."
- " I seem to do a lot of retiring."
- "A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things." ~ Admiral Grace Hopper

I was a pioneer in the computer field, and was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and I developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages.

In 1943, I sworn in to the United States Navy Reserve, one of many women to volunteer to serve in the WAVES. I had to get a waiver because I was 15 pounds below the Navy minimum weight of 120 pounds.
Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of 1966. I was recalled to active duty in August 1967 for a six-month period that turned into an indefinite assignment. I again retired in 1971 but was asked to return to active duty again in 1972. I was promoted to Captain in 1973 by Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. I retired (involuntarily) from the Navy on August 14, 1986. At a celebration held in Boston on the USS Constitution to celebrate her retirement, Hopper was awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the highest non-combat award possible by the Department of Defense. At the moment of her retirement, she was the oldest officer in the United States Navy, and aboard the oldest ship in the United States Navy.

I was then hired as a senior consultant to Digital Equipment Corporation, a position I retained until my death in 1992, aged 85. I visited a large fraction of Digital's engineering facilities where I generally received a standing ovation at the conclusion of my remarks. Although I was an interesting and competent speaker, the most memorable part of these talks was my illustration of a nanosecond. I salvaged an obsolete Bell System 25 pair telephone cable, cut it to 11.8 inch (30 cm) lengths (which is the distance that light travels in one nanosecond) and handed out the individual wires to her listeners.

Although no longer a serving officer, she always wore her Navy full dress uniform to these lectures. I was laid to rest with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery; Section 59, grave 973.

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Grace Hopper - first woman of computers

[Craig]

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I am the only female Medal of Honor winner, who am I?

I am Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919)
The only woman, and only 1 of 8 civilians ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
YOU GO GIRL!

Mary Edwards Walker was born in 1832, to parents adamantly opposed to slavery and committed to equal rights for both genders. In an unconventional upbringing, she was encouraged to wear comfortable, practical clothing, instead of the corsets and dresses common in her era, and she received the same education as a boy. She was the only woman in her class at medical school and one of the first American women to become a medical doctor. When she married another physician in 1855 the word "obey" was omitted from their vows, and she retained her last name. Believing that conventional women's wear constrained movement and added to the illusion that women should be judged by appearance, both bride and groom wore a suit and top hat.

At the outbreak of the American Civil War she tried to join the Union Army, but was refused commission due to her gender. She then volunteered as a nurse at an Army hospital in Washington DC, and served as a battlefield nurse in title while doing the work of a surgeon. She made her own military uniform (modifying the standard male garb), wore two pistols at all times, and tended the wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run and the battles of Chickomauga and Atlanta. After more than two years of volunteer service, she was promoted on the field by General George Henry Thomas to the rank of "Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian)" in the Army of the Cumberland. She later served as assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry.

Walker provided medical care for injured civilians on both the Union and Confederate side, repeatedly crossing alone into enemy territory on horseback. On one of her Southbound missions she was arrested as a spy, and held for four months at a Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia. She was released in a prisoner exchange that allowed some three dozen physicians to return to their respective Armies, and she later said she was delighted to have been part of a "man for man" swap. For valor on the battlefield, she was recommended by Generals William T. Sherman and Thomas for the Congressional Medal of Honor, and on 11 November 1865, she became the first woman to receive America's highest military award.

After the war, she resumed her medical practice and worked as a writer and lecturer on women's rights to vote and property, clothing reform, and the dangers of tobacco (which, she said, led to paralysis and insanity). She sued the Election Board in Washington DC in 1868, arguing that as an American she had the right to vote, but her petition was denied. She was a member of the National Dress Reform Association, and frequently wore the radical "bloomers" advocated by her friend Amelia Jenks Bloomer. At her father's death in 1880, she inherited his farm in New York, where she lived for the remainder of her life.

She ran for Congress in 1890, and for the Senate in 1892. She testified before Congress in support of the 19th Amendment, and authored an early 20th century pamphlet which was widely read and influential in the growing acceptance of women's rights. Her Congressional Medal of Honor was withdrawn in 1917, when the Medal's requirements were rewritten so that it could only be bestowed for acts of "actual combat with an enemy." She refused to return the medal, and instead began wearing it everywhere she went. On a trip to Washington DC later that year to argue for women's rights, the 85-year-old Walker slipped on the steps of the capital, forcing her to spend her last years at home.
She died in 1919, barely a year before the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution took effect, guaranteeing women the right to vote. At her funeral her body was carried in a flag-draped coffin, and she was buried wearing her black suit and tie. Her medal was restored by order of President Jimmy Carter in 1977, more than five decades after her death. She remains the only woman to have ever received the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Her Medal of Honor citation:

WALKER, DR. MARY E.

Rank and organization: Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian), U. S. Army. Places and dates: Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861; Patent Office Hospital, Washington, D.C., October 1861; Chattanooga, Tenn., following Battle of Chickomauga, September 1863; Prisoner of War, April 10, 1864-August 12, 1864, Richmond, Va.; Battle of Atlanta, September 1864. Entered service at: Louisville, Ky. Born: 26 November 1832, Oswego County, N.Y. Citation: Whereas it appears from official reports that Dr. Mary E. Walker, a graduate of medicine, "has rendered valuable service to the Government, and her efforts have been earnest and untiring in a variety of ways," and that she was assigned to duty and served as an assistant surgeon in charge of female prisoners at Louisville, Ky., upon the recommendation of Major-Generals Sherman and Thomas, and faithfully served as contract surgeon in the service of the United States, and has devoted herself with much patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded soliders, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured hardships as a prisoner of war four months in a Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her; and
Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made:
It is ordered, That a testimonial thereof shall be hereby made and given to the said Dr. Mary E. Walker, and that the usual medal of honor for meritorious services be given her.
Given under my hand in the city of Washington, D.C., this 11th day of November, A.D. 1865.
Andrew Johnson, President
(Medal rescinded 1917 along with 910 others, restored by President Carter 10 June 1977.)

[Craig]

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I am a famous sailor, who am I?

I am Eddie Albert (aka Edward Albert Heimberger), famous American actor, and United States Navy sailor!

Eddie Albert, Actor, Famous for the TV show Green Acres. Albert appeared on Broadway in the stage production of Brother Rat, and made his film debut in 1938 in the movie based upon the play, starring opposite Ronald Regan and was interrupted by a stint in the Navy during WWII. He's worked steadily throughout his 50+ years as an actor, and has an impressive list of stage, film, and television credits, including two Oscar nominations - the first for his work in Roman Holiday (1953), and the second for his performance in The Heartbreak Kid (1972).

Albert served in the Navy during WWII as a Navy as a junior officer (Lieutenant). Albert was a genuine war hero. A thousand Americans and 4,800 Japanese lives were lost in bloody battle at Tarawa, a Pacific island, and Albert fought in the first wave of the three day combat. Afterward, he was ordered to salvage usable military equipment off the battlefield, and won his Bronze Star with a combat 'V' for finding and rescuing 70 wounded Marines during the battle of Tarawa, who had been abandoned under heavy fire.

He was nominated for Oscars as Gregory Peck's pal with a camera in Roman Holiday (1953) and as a deranged military officer in Attack. But Albert will always be remembered as the exasperated Oliver Douglas, lawyer turned farmer, on TV's Green Acres. He also played a con man on Switch, and had a side career as narrator and producer of educational films. He explained the facts of life in How Life Begins (1968), and made a series of public service announcements urging people to protect the environment.