USN Duty in the Philippines - now just a memory.....

[Salvage Sailor]

Aloha Everyone,

 

Feel free to post items associated with USN duty in the Philippine Islands (Cubi, Cavite, Subic Bay, San Miguel, etc)

 

To start, Dive Locker, Subic Bay

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Cubi Point O Club and Carrier Air Wing 2 Beach Detachment

 

 

 

[Garandomatic]

Cool.

[Salvage Sailor]

Philippine monkeypod plaque and PI HCU 1 patch

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Skate Shore Duty - Subic Bay Fleet Recreation plaque, also carved from a monkeypod plank

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Olongapo City Section - Provost Marshalls Map of Bars, Clubs & Hotels

 

 

[sigsaye]

Lol, the good old days! I spent so much time there from '73-'84, I used the address of a bar as a leave address ?.

[m1ashooter]

I love you long time.

[Salvage Sailor]

On 7/9/2015 at 7:15 PM, m1ashooter said:

I love you long time.

 

That's their Asian cousins across the China Sea......an overnight with these hostesses includes dinner with mama and balut for your sprint to the liberty boat

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Need a ride?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sigsaye]

Salvage! Saw some familure names on those signs! Over the years I saw some of those places change names a few times. Some, twice in the same cruise ?

[Salvage Sailor]

.....and here's the welcoming sign you didn't want to see Steve

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Kalaklan River (the actual name) Magsaysay Avenue bridge, Olongapo

 

 

 

[sigsaye]

.....and here's the welcoming sign you didn't want to see Steve

LOL!!! MY FIRST SHIP!!!!!?????

[sigsaye]

Kalaklan River (the actual name) Magsaysay Avenue bridge, Olongapo

. The patch I wore on my working jacket said "500 missions" and had was looking down on SRB through cross hairs ???⚓️

[Salvage Sailor]

On 7/10/2015 at 9:06 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

.....and here's the welcoming sign you didn't want to see Steve

 

On 7/10/2015 at 3:15 PM, sigsaye said:

LOL!!! MY FIRST SHIP!!!!!?????

 

Yeah, that was just for you buddy....

 

Welcoming the Saratoga

 

 

[irish]

Great thread love the photos.

[Salvage Sailor]

Naval Communications Station San Miguel, P.I.

 

[sigsaye]

 

 

Yeah, that was just for you buddy....

 

Welcoming the Saratoga

. My last Pacific Fleet ship was USS St. Louis (LKA-116). About 1983-4, we were in and out of Subic routinely. My boys had staked out a bar as "Our Bar" (Mariposa Bar #2). One time we came into port and they had a sign welcoming "Signal Gang USS St. Louis, and listing each one of us by rate and name. One of my guys was the Command a Drug and Alchol Program Advisor! Captain saw the sign. We had a bit of explaining to do. He was an old hand, his thing was "OPSEC", and why did his DAPA have his name on a bar? ???⚓️

[m1ashooter]

The pictures of our boys on liberty are wonderful. I hope their wife's aren't reading this.

[Salvage Sailor]

The Shore Patrol will keep everything in line.....

 

 

....or will they?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[normaninvasion]

Really great photos. Enjoying it!

[Salvage Sailor]

Why you should not wear GI issue birth control glasses on liberty.....

 

 

 

BCG's - USN GI issue "Birth Control Glasses"

 

[Mitch]

SalSail,

Very nice group of items you posted. The pictures are great. Really shows how young the guys were back then. Thanks for sharing. Attached is a large PI made patch that I would think would have been from this timeframe. It has been worn.

Regards, Mitch

[Salvage Sailor]

Nice patch Mitch,

 

The shop on the left of this photo was a disneyland of patches, belt buckles, carvings, etc made to order

 

Also note the out of uniform sailor on the right being shadowed by the PC, looks like he got rolled the night before.....