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MOBOAT NEWS 4 Dec 06
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Bob Behm
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Dec 04, 2006 20:47 PST
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MOBOAT NEWS - VOL. 3 NO. 5
A newsletter for veterans of the “USS Monticello LSD 35"
Our website has had over 11,000 visitors since it was launched.
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Inside This Issue:
04 DEC 06
1: WHAT'S NEW?
2: REUNION
3: SMILE!
4: DRAWING
5: NAVY DRILL TEAM
6: TREES BRING HOLIDAY SPIRIT TO USS DUBUQUE
7: ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
8. FINDING FORMER SHIPMATES
9. AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
10. REUNION REGISTRATIONS
11. NEW PLANKOWNER ITEMS
12. GETTING THE WORD OUT
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1: WHAT'S NEW?
At last count, 403 crew members signed into the online Deck Log.
31 Officers
4 Skippers
34 Plank owners
352 Enlisted
86 Life Members
5 Annual Members
25 Chiefs
11 Marines
1 Attached (Australian)
1 Midshipman
Keep spreading the word. If you know someone who served on the
MoBoat, and they're not listed on the Deck Log, please forward this
newsletter to them.
ERRORS... If you have logged-in and can't find your entry in the deck
Log or the "Member's List" please let me know and I will correct the
deficiency ASAP.
The monthly drawing for a MoBoat item begun again in November.
To be eligible for the drawing, you must have your member's dues
current and your reunion registration sent in by the date of the
drawing.
Monthly Winners will be drawn from a list of those that have submitted
their completed Branson reunion registration forms.
Our last drawing will take place July 1st, 2007.
Our second item to be given away this month will be the Command
Histories 1964-1985.
So, get those reunion registration forms in right away and be eligible
for the next monthly drawing.
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2: REUNION
The preparations for the 2007 reunion is in process. We've contacted
19 Veteran's magazine's and numerous reunion related websites about
our proposed reunion.
The dates of the reunion are 1 - 5 August 2007 at the Grand Plaza Hotel
in Branson, MO.
The reunion registration forms are available online in PDF format at:
http://www.ussmonticello.com/reunion_update.htm
Or by clicking on this link:
http://www.ussmonticello.com/2007_registration_form.pdf
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3: SMILE!
An old Sailor and an old Marine were sitting at the VFW arguing about
who'd had the tougher career.
"I did 30 years in the Corps," the Marine declared proudly, "and fought
in three of my country's wars. Fresh out of boot camp, I hit the beach
at Okinawa, clawed my way up the blood-soaked sand, and eventually took
out an entire enemy machine gun nest with a single grenade. As a
sergeant, I fought in Korea a longside General MacArthur. We pushed
back the enemy inch by bloody inch,
all the way up to the Chinese border, always under a barrage of
artillery and small arms fire. Finally, as a Gunny Sergeant, I did
three consecutive combat tours in Vietnam. We humped through the mud
and razor grass for 14 hours a day, plagued by rain and mosquitoes,
ducking under sniper fire all day, and mortar fire all night. In a
firefight, we'd fire until our arms ached and our guns were empty, then
we'd charge the enemy with bayonets!"
"Ah," said the Sailor with a dismissive wave of his hand, "lucky
bastard! All shore duty, huh?"
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4. DRAWING
Each month until the reuinon will be having a drawing from those that
have sent in their reunion registration.
This month's winner will receive the Command Histories 1964-1985.
And the lucky winner pulled from the official "MoBoat" ballcap by my
lovely wife, Maria, is:
Plankowner BT2 David Clifford.
Congratulations David! We'll get that Book off to you ASAP.
If you are planning to attend the reunion in Branson in August '07,
be sure to get those reunion registrations in early to be eligible for
all the monthly drawings preceding the reunion.
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5. NAVY DRILL TEAM
Here's a impressive video of the Navy's Drill Team
http://www.whc.net/rjones/USN/USN_team.html
Thanks, Darrel
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6. TREES BRING HOLIDAY SPIRIT TO USS DUBUQUE
MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- The holiday season kicked off aboard USS
Dubuque (LPD 8) with the delivery of three live Christmas trees Nov. 28
donated by the Christmas Spirit Foundation via the Trees for Troops
Program. The trees were donated by tree farmers from across the United
States.
The holiday delivery is the first of numerous scheduled deliveries that
will ultimately ship more than 100 Christmas trees to service members
stationed throughout the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s (NAVCENT)
area of responsibility (AOR). This AOR is a 7.5 million square-mile
region that is the home to more than 13,000 Sailors serving in support
of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom,
as well as maritime security operations (MSO).
The Dubuque delivery was coordinated locally by NAVCENT’s chaplain's
staff, which delivered the three fresh evergreen trees. The trees
arrived in boxes to help ensure the tree’s limbs stayed intact during
the lengthy shipment from the United States to the Middle Eastern
region.
“It really means a lot to this crew,” said Dubuque Command Chaplain, Lt.
Rodney Weaver, as he separated the branches of a fresh evergreen. “It
brightens our spirits; having a live tree aboard just adds a little
something more.”
Weaver added that everyone would have a chance to help decorate the
trees, which would be displayed in different common areas located aboard
the ship.
NAVCENT Chief Religious Program Specialist Eddie Walker, who coordinated
the shipboard delivery, said the trees will help give Dubuque Sailors a
little slice of home.
“They’re here on deployment without their families,” he said. “This is a
way to keep everyone’s spirits up, and remind each other that other
service members are also part of our family.”
Dubuque left her homeport of Norfolk, Va., Oct. 3, for a scheduled
six-month deployment and is currently in the region conducting MSO.
MSO help set the conditions for security and stability in the maritime
environment, as well as complement the counter-terrorism and security
efforts of regional nations.
These operations deny international terrorists use of the maritime
environment as a venue for attack or to transport personnel, weapons or
other material.
For related news, visit the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central
Command/Commander,
U.S. 5th Fleet Navy NewsStand page at www.news.navy.mil/local/cusnc/
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7. ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
Magazine of the U.S. Navy
The first "issue" of All Hands was printed as the Bureau of Navigation
News Bulletin No. 1 (dated Aug. 30, 1922). Twenty years later, the title
was changed to Bureau of Naval Personnel
Information Bulletin. As America claimed "Victory in Europe" on the
cover of June 1945, the magazine's new banner read, All Hands, and the
name stuck.
The Navy believes it's important to make the Navy's history, as
documented in All Hands, accessible to everyone. In January 2003, we
completed a two-year project to archive every back issue (more than 80
years worth) in Adobe Acrobat® format. Since June 2002, every
new issue is being offered in both Adobe Acrobat® format and the
interactive Macromedia Flash® format.
Please note that the Acrobat files are saved at 150 dpi to ensure
acceptable print quality.
While this results in a slightly larger file size than that required for
Web-only viewing, we believe this is a better option for archival
purposes.
http://www.news.navy.mil/allhands.asp?x=search
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8. FINDING FORMER SHIPMATES
The reunion is getting closer and will be here before you know it.
Wouldn't it be great if your ol' friends could join you in Branson? Here
are a few places to look for your friends.
http://www.intelius.com – Free searches on this site return full name,
city, state, approximate age, and names of others living in the same
household. Search criteria include the middle initial, which is very
helpful in finding the person you are looking for. Intelius is very
useful for zeroing in on possible locations of the target individuals,
who can be more precisely located at no charge by using whitepages.com
or similar people finders.
http://whitepages.com – Free searches return names, addresses and phone
numbers, but no information on age or other household members. Search
criteria can include city and ZIP code if you know them. Free reverse
searches are available for telephone numbers and addresses. If your
target’s name is reasonably uncommon, and/or if you are fairly sure
where he lives, this is a very good site for finding him. We have used
it extensively for finding shipmates, often after zeroing in on them
through Intelius or U.S. Search.
http://www.ussearch.com – Search criteria include the middle initial.
Here are partial results of a free search for Louis F. Sander. We’ve
used the age (in the third column) to identify likely
candidates from the search results, then used www.whitepages.com to find
them.
http://www.zabasearch.com – Search is by name and optionally by state.
Results of free searches include name, address, and sometimes phone
number and approximate age. This is a fairly new people finder, and it
is very easy to use. It’s often the first people finder we try when
looking for a single shipmate.
For even more information on find your old shipmates, try this PDF that
is full of ideas on how to find them.
http://www.ussrankin.org/HTMLobj2680/HowToGetCopiesOfNavyCrewlists.PDF
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9. AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Please take the time to visit this Website. It's an official Military
Website loaded with ways you can support the troops.
http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/
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10. REUNION REGISTRATIONS
Here is the list of those that are now registered for the upcoming
reunion in Branson, MO. Thanks for registering so promptly!
Cathy and Michael Battisti
Betty and David Clifford
Kathy and Sonny Gaines
I will post this list monthly until the reunion.
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11. NEW PLANKOWNER ITEMS
We have new Plankowner MoBoat items available for purchase on our
website. and by clicking the CafePress link to even more items. Be sure
to check them out at:
http://www.cafepress.com/moplankowners
Proceeds from the sale of these items go to the USS MONTICELLO REUNION
FUND to purchase printer ink, paper, stamps, envelopes, website hosting,
and software.
Please stop by the ship's store today. If you would like to see a
particular item for sale let me know and I'll check the availability of
the product.
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12. GETTING THE WORD OUT
As you can tell from our log-in count, shipmates are still finding our
website.
But, just advertising our reunion in veteran's magazines may not be good
enough.
One way to get the word out is contacting former shipmates yourself if
you know where they are. The other is placing a classified ad to
advertize our reunion and website in your home town newspaper or the
biggest city close to you.
If we all would do this simple thing, The entire country would be
covered.
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Well... that's all for this Issue of the MoBoat News.
Continue spreading the word about ussmonticello.com. Feel free to
forward this Newsletter to anybody you think will find it interesting.
If this Newsletter was forwarded to you and you'd like to subscribe,
just visit http://ussmonticello.com/newsletter.htm. All back issues of
the MoBoat News are also available there as well.
So long for now, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Bob Behm (Beamer)
USSMonticello.com Webmaster
Former BM3
USS Monticello LSD 35 '69-'71
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