A PETTY OFFICER AND A SWABBIE by Charles W. Paige

A memoir of my four years on active duty in the US Navy, 1968-1972. Copyright 1992, 1998, 2004, 2021 Charles W. Paige

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• Welcome!
• Acknowledgements
  Semper Fi
  
• Introduction
• Boot Camp
  Before the uniform went on
  From civilian slime to military acceptability
  Into the pressure cooker
  Singing Swabbies
  
  Choir Prayer
  Musical RCPO Moore (pix-45K)
  Choir guide-ons (pix-44K)
  Choir at Preble (pix-49K)
  Choir of Strangers
• Service School Command
  Airport 1969
  Basic Electricity/Electronics "P" School
  Radioman "A" and "C" Schools
• Ship and Shore
  Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard and San Francisco
  
  My very first carrier (pix-54K)
  My second carrier (pix-94K)
  
  U.S.S. Midway (CVA-41)
  Some important Midway internet addresses
  Ship's published statistics and capabilities
  "Laurels for Midway"
  A year of (s)training
• Evolutions and Other Shipboard Life
  Storms and crossings
  Domain of the Golden Dragon
  Tradition
  Man coming aboard or going ashore
  Some ship and flight deck announcements
  Using one's head
  Domiciling and General Quarters
  In search of Oscar
  $Pay Day$
  Unreps
  
  Pictures of a 1971 unrep in progress
  
  Radio
  
  My picture for the ship's yearbook (pix-35K)
  
  Flight deck operations
• Of Men, Morale and Morals
  Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories
  Philippines
  Nippon
  A friendship can be covered up
  Critical Mass
  The deed is done
  Agnes Freeb Slings Cupid's Arrows
  Goodwitch Decries Title
  Charges Unfounded But Hopes High
  Ethyl Trap Puts Wuf Wuf In Doghouse
  Perspectives On A War
• Awards
• "RM3 Paige, Plank Owner, departing"
• Epilogue
  U.S.S. Midway (CV-41) decommissioning
  Midway Returns to San Diego Bay
• Postscript
• Bibliography

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