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Submitted by: Ken Penick

From: Louisville Kentucky

Email: kpenick@nl.rogers.com

Added: 12/31/2014

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Served on Security Element Phu Bai with 62 for around 12 weeks. Remember Fred McKinney, Ronald Long, Bob Hofer, Richard A Meyers, Billie Burchett and more..
Photos on this site of Norm's to view.. To all that served with 62 "2015" Cheers!!

Submitted by: Ken Penick

From: Louisville Kentucky

Email: kpenick@nl.rogers.com

Added: 12/31/2014

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Was IN MCB 62 For Frist & Second Tours
Last Reunion Attended 2014 Gulfport! Won the Shotgun! Cool!
Hoping to make the "2015" "God Willing" And Win-again
Happy New Year Too All "Can do Ken"

Submitted by: Fred McKinney

From: Fayetteville and Wilmington, NC

Email: fmckinney1@nc.rr.com,

Added: 12/27/2014

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Greetings to fellow Seabees who served on the Phu Bai deployment. I was in the Security Element for the entire deployment. Then became an instructor in the Military Training Dept at CBC Gulfport. Navy Service from May 1966 to January 1969. BU2.

Submitted by: paul wollenhaupt

From: North Carolina

Email: pwollenhaupt@yahoo.com

Added: 12/22/2014

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Tragedies, tension and unrest have been in our lives too often these past few months. May we all take a moment to offer up a prayer. I want to wish each and everyone of you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR filled with peace and love.

Submitted by: Norm Hahn, NMCB 62 webmaster

From: Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Email: normhahnjr@yahoo.com

Added: 12/11/2014

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The Navy Seabee Veterans of America (NSVA) have just completely revamped their website. Previously, their webmaster was Billy Millican, a fellow Minuteman and a member of our NMCB 62 Alumni Group. With their new revamped website the NSVA chose to employ a third party company to design their new website and go with a new webmaster. With their newly designed website comes a newly designed guestbook. The new guestbook does not carry-over the thousands of entries from the old guestbook. It was starting from scratch, brand new.

I sent an email to the NSVA website coordinator asking if their old guestbook entries, which go back YEARS, could be incorporated into the new guestbook. Here is his reply:

Norm, Sorry I'm just now getting back to you. One of our delays/issues that we had building the new web-site. We tried many things to try to get the old guestbook on the new guestbook. But, since it was third party and script coded different we could not transfer it over. I sorry but there is no access to the old websites guest book entries. Regards, Jon.

We here at the NMCB 62 Alumni Group will keep our guestbook in this format for as long as we have a website and a webmaster to maintain the site. The membership dues of the NMCB 62 Alumni Group maintain this site.

Submitted by: Ferrell Johns

From: Andalusia, Al.

Email: fjmj@centurytel.net

Added: 12/10/2014

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Anyone remember the MARS station at Dong Ha. That was me. I ran phone patches into Gulfport just after Camille. I was in B company. The company cdr was a CWO but can't remember his name.

Submitted by: Norm Hahn

From: Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Email: normhahnjr@yahoo.com

Added: 12/02/2014

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JONATHAN GROHS.
GROHS, JONATHAN P. Jonathan P Grohs, 68, of Torrington, CT passed away Sunday, November 30th, at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. Jonathan was born in Torrington, CT on June 23, 1946, a son of the late Frances (Thorne) and Henry L. Grohs. He was a graduate of OWTS Class of 1965. He served in the U.S. Navy Seabees in the Vietnam War, and was a recipient of The Purple Heart. He was retired from Yankee Gas Company. Active in Scouting, he was Scoutmaster for Troop 3 at Center Church for many years. He was a member and Past Master for Seneca Lodge #55, and was a member of Disabled Vets Chapter 11, Torrington VFW Post, and Seabee Island X-1 Group. After retirement he was a volunteer driver for DAV. Jonathan is survived by a son, Christopher Grohs and his fiance Rachel of Stafford Springs and brothers Robert and David Grohs of Torrington, as well as a niece, Julie Cruz. Funeral Services will be held at Center Congregational Church, Torrington CT, at 11 AM on Thursday, December 4th, with burial following at Hillside Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday 2-4 and 6-8 PM at Phalen Funeral Home, 285 Migeon Ave., Torrington. Memorial Contributions can be made to Center Church Book of Remembrance, 155 Main St., Torrington, CT 06790, Chapter 11 DAV, PO Box 511, Union City, CT 06770 or Camp Workcoeman, 169 Camp Workcoeman CR Council, 60 Darlin St., East Hartford, CT 06108.
Phalen Funeral Home, 285 Migeon Avenue Torrington, CT 06790. (860) 489-9600. Published in register citizen on Dec. 2, 2014.
We will miss our Brother "JP" and wish him fair winds and following seas.

To send a memorial message to JP's family, go to his obituary on our Facebook page for the email address of the funeral home.

Submitted by: Duane Vance

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Email: cbdrv@aol.com

Added: 12/02/2014

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I regret to inform you all that our fellow 62 Seabee Jonathon "JP" Grohs passed away Sunday, November 30. He will be greatly missed by all of us that knew him. He was a kind and caring man as well as a fine and proud Seabee. His obituary can be viewed on line the RegisterCitizen.com. Rest in peace Jonathon, you certainly have earned it.

Submitted by: Norm Hahn

From: Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Email: normhahnjr@yahoo.com

Added: 12/01/2014

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Congratulations to the following NMCB 62 Minutemen and Scotland Bees who have joined or renewed their Alumni Group Membership Dues.

Dues $$ received from 9-6 through 12-1-2014. Names are in the order of when their dues were received.

ST. CYR, Paul
LYONS, Patrick
PARKER, Michael
PIRRELLO, Frank
McILROY, Dr. Hugh M.
THOMAS, Michael
BACUS, Zelby
GROCKI, Joe
ALLISON, Bill
GROHS, JP
PARKS, Ted
REYNOLDS, Jerry
POWELL, Bill
ROLL, Bill

Submitted by: Norm Hahn

From: Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Email: normhahnjr@yahoo.com

Added: 11/18/2014

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NMCB 62 Seabees and friends. Our next reunion will be held in Hampton, Virginia at the Crowne Plaza Hampton Marina Hotel. We'll begin in the hotel lounge with photo taking, Thursday night 26 Feb and conclude after Sunday brunch, 1 March, 2015. We also invite any Seabee who was ever stationed in Scotland or Ireland to join us at the reunion and to come to our annual one hour business meeting on Saturday afternoon, 28 Feb. Information about the reunion and registration forms is on this website. Click on link 1, upcoming reunions. To view our photographs click on link 2. For those who cannot attend in February, our next reunion will be in Gulfport, MS on 30 April to 4 May 2015.