PENSACOLA

Here's a photo of me taken at Pensacola by my buddy Crishock. Note the name in the lower right corner. We had to put a clear plastic piece in our film holder with our name printed on it so our name would appear on all the shots that we took. I thought that I had one of Crishock that I took the same day,but so far no luck finding it. I want to write a little more in memory of my good friend and will as soon as I get the memorial details from his wife.

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Gary Tarr wrote about the NPIC Christmas card

Sarj:

Thanks. I was trying to figure out why I wasn't on the Christmas card, then I remembered I was mess cooking at Anacostia then. As to the info about Norman, OK, I was in

the last class to go through there. I left at the end of April

'59 and it closed in September.

Question: was Dave Posey the

one who showed up wearing red heart boxers under his whites at inspection one time?

Again thanks for stimulating the little gray cells.

Gary Tarr

Gary talking about compartment cleaning reminded me that we all did this in our barracks at the Naval Receiving Station Anacostia. At the top of the posting are photos of us in the barracks messing around.

Top photo: Left to right: Crischock, Pluto, Tarr, Tidler, Bloom and Michaels. The 5 of us on the left all ended up living together in an apartment in Congress Park an area just miles from the Anacostia Receiving Station where we lived and compartment cleaned while waiting for our security clearance. This photo and others to follow were taken in the barracks at Anacostia. This is the barracks at T9 lower south that I wrote the story on about the Fire Drill.

Next photo: I can't think of the guy's name in the foreground but I remember he was a tall big man. Behind him is Tidler (I had to close the barn door on his shorts) and me on the top bunk on left, Tarr standing in the back and Michaels sitting on the bunk.

Next to last photo: Lower bunk is Pluto and me on the top making a face in the back sitting is Tarr and the other two guys I need help remembering.

Last photo: Here I am doing a little tap dance while Tarr looks on pretending to read.

Looking at these pictures makes me think "Why would we ever want to life anywhere else but in these nice cozy barracks" Where the barracks use to stand is now a freeway. I could never find any sign of where the Receiving Station was when I passed by that area.

ROOMMATES

The above photo was taken by me probably around the spring of 1961 at the Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington VA. There four guys on the left were my roommates for most of the time I was stationed at NPIC (Naval Photographic Interpretation Center in Suitland, MD. We all shared an apartment in the area called Congress Park of Washington, D. C.. Although there was 5 of us there was never any more than 3 there at a time to share the two bedroom apartment because we had different duty days. In civilian life I you would call it overtime, but we called it "slave labor" (see our Christmas card).

Pictured left to right are Richard Crishock, Joe Tidler, Ron Pluto, Gary Tarr and D. M. Dyt.

Dyt was not a roommate buy hang with us a lot. He was from NJ and died in a car crash around spring of '62. The other bookend is Richard Crishock a wonderful guy and one of those guys you never forget. About 4 years ago I renewed my friendship with him and his wife in Arlington, VA and found that they ad been living there only miles from where I lived for 30 years in the suburbs of MD. After finding, Dick as his family refers to him, I started looking for the other guys that were left. I located Tidler, Tarr and was sure we could find Pluto because he had always lived in Pittsburgh, PA and I had talked to him once in the 70's when I was in town for a seminar.

I have more stories about "Our Gang" at another time. We had a lot of good times together and I had plans to get a reunion planned when Crishcok got ill and passed away. This was a real shocker to me and I'll write soon about Dick.