Salvage Sailor Posted January 2, 2022 Share #101 Posted January 2, 2022 On 2/19/2014 at 12:47 PM, Salvage Sailor said: While you're pondering.... Andros Ranges AUTEC Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center Another AUTEC patch - MARINE DEPARTMENT, ANDROS ISLAND TOTO RANGE "Tongue Of The Ocean" - Tough, Observant, Tenacious, Orderly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted January 14, 2022 Share #102 Posted January 14, 2022 NAVFAC SAN SALVADOR - British West Indies, in operation 1954 to 1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted April 24, 2022 Share #103 Posted April 24, 2022 On 10/21/2017 at 8:03 AM, Salvage Sailor said: Fleet Weather Central Kodiak Alaska 1960's Combined services patch (pre-1971) when Kodiak was operated by the USN but shared with the USCG US Naval Air Station, US Naval Station, Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonomachi Posted July 22, 2022 Share #104 Posted July 22, 2022 On 5/24/2019 at 1:45 PM, Salvage Sailor said: Nice Patch It's early 1960's from the USAUWS in Key West, Florida. The school was primarily for ASW rates (sonarmen, torpedomen, etc) From a torpedoman's 1960 navy memoirs: "From boot camp it was on to the United States Naval Advanced Undersea Weapons School in Key West, Florida. This was to be only the first of several trips to this school learning the latest in high tech weaponry." More from his pages: After boot camp it was off to Key West, Florida for what would turn out to be the first of many classes in advanced undersea weapons. Unlike my previous public school education, I managed to graduate first in every class I took in the Navy. Advanced Undersea Weapons School Here they taught everything from basic electronics to high tech rocket launched homing torpedoes to atomic warheads. I signed up for everything I could get. By the time I was 18 I knew how to prepare weapons that could sink almost anything afloat. The part of the Navy base that housed the school also housed an anti-submarine helicopter squadron. Our barracks was next to the airfield. More info on USAUWS in Key West, Florida Came across a period photograph of what looks like a graduating class of sailors at this facility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted January 14, 2023 Share #105 Posted January 14, 2023 United States Naval Strike Warfare Center (NSWC) Est. 1984 Naval Air Station, Lemoore, CA Strike Leader Attack Training Syllabus (SLATS) Later moved to NAS Fallon Nevada in 1988 Early History of the Naval Strike Warfare Center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted May 14, 2023 Share #106 Posted May 14, 2023 FLEET TRAINING GROUP PEARL HARBOR (FTGPH) Ford Island, Pearl Harbor Naval Station 'Been there done that many times' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted May 28, 2023 Share #107 Posted May 28, 2023 On 5/11/2019 at 2:15 PM, USARV72 said: Note, Hatteras, N.C. was called, “Graveyard of the Atlantic”. No patch of Northwest , Va.????? Northwest, VA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USARV72 Posted May 28, 2023 Share #108 Posted May 28, 2023 Nice, grew up and lived about 5 miles from there. We wondered what they thought when we fired Mgs and cannons. We could hear the Marine detachment shooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 17, 2023 Share #109 Posted June 17, 2023 US Naval Receiving Station Norfolk Virginia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted July 2, 2023 Share #110 Posted July 2, 2023 Here's a difficult one to find....it was all 'hush, hush' as the Brits say NAVFAC BRAWDY WALES "Oceanographic Research Station" aka Cold War SOSUS Project Caesar Terminal Building The US Navy base, next to RAF Brawdy in Pembrokeshire, was officially an "Oceanographic Research Station", though it has long been know that it was a processing centre for a network of underwater microphones, some of which were submerged off the British coast, listening to submarine movements in the Atlantic. S.O.S.U.S., or Project Caesar was began in 1954 and comprised of several bases designed to track Soviet submarine movements via their propeller sounds. Brawdy was its biggest station, opening in 1973 and closing in 1995, when its function was transferred to another UK site, either St. Mawgan (Cornwall) or a Corsham (Wiltshire) site. This was a major intelligence facility with 22 US Navy Officers, 278 other ranks and 7 civilians working there in 1980. Its budget was $20m between 1978-1984, 80% of which was spent on electronics or computer equipment. $3.6m was spent on doubling the size of the operations block in 1981. Little is known for certain about the base, though details of its role may have partially been revealed in 1993 when a whale researcher obtained recordings of whale song from the base, he was told that once, US Navy technicians were able to track an individual whale for 40 days by which time it had reached Bermuda - rather impressive technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted July 3, 2023 Share #111 Posted July 3, 2023 ...and my larger NAVFAC BRAWDY WALES patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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