Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 62 Alumni Group

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mcb62 69/70 ut2

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With 62 from 70 t0 73. Retired after Diego Garcia deployment June 1, 1973. Battalion EAC, spent most of my time on runway grading and paving effort.

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(Norm Hahn received this email from Roman Hnatowski, EAC, USN, Retired, a NMCB 62 Alumni Group Member:)

Shipmates:

It is with a heavy heart and much sadness to inform you of Dennis Fink's passing. Chris wanted everyone to know that one of Dennis' greatest pleasures was talking with, receiving email from and especially getting together with his Brothers and their families.

Tomorrow, the 24th, I'll call Chris and ask her the viewing and burial arrangements. I'm sure we all will keep Dennis and Chris is our hearts and prayers.

Miss you Brother! V/r, Roman

PS - Dennis served as an EA2 on NMCB 62's 2nd & 3rd tours to Red Beach, Danang and Dong Ha, RVN.

(Here is his obituary)

Dennis E. Fink. Newspaper: Williamsport Sun-Gazette. Dated December 24, 2013. Obituary.

Dennis E. Fink, 68, of 149 Valley View Drive, Jersey Shore, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Monday, Dec. 23, 2013, at the Williamsport Regional Medical Center.

Born Dec. 29, 1944, in Berwick, he was a son of Earl and Suzanne (Roll) Fink.

Dennis was a 1962 graduate of Berwick High School. He received a degree in engineering from Williamsport Area Community College in 1966 and also a degree in horticulture in 1973. He had served in the U.S. Navy Seabees during Vietnam. Dennis retired in 2012 as an assistant professor of ornamental horticulture at Pennsylvania College of Technology, where he received the Master Teacher Award in 1997. He was a member of Crossroads Community Church and the Jersey Shore Lions Club. He enjoyed model train collecting and photography. VETERAN.

Surviving are his wife, Christine A. (Alexander) Fink, with whom he celebrated 43 years of marriage with on Sept. 12.; a daughter, Suzanne E. Phillipps and husband John Jr., of Jersey Shore; two grandchildren, Emily G. and Cole A. Phillips; two brothers, David C. Fink (Jane), of Jersey Shore and Douglas P. Fink (Bonnie), of Williamsport; sister, Mary Ann L. Donnelly, of Berwick; brother-in-law, Donald L. Alexander (Karen), of Jersey Shore; and sister-in-law, Darleen E. Dunkelberger, of Jersey Shore; and many loving nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, at Crossroads Community Church, 1454 State Route 44 Highway, Jersey Shore, with his son-in-law, Pastor John H. Phillips Jr. officiating. Burial will be held in Jersey Shore Cemetery with military honors accorded by the Jersey Shore Veterans. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Crossroads Community Church.

Memorial contributions in Dennis's name may be made to Crossroads Community Church.

Arrangements entrusted to Sanders Mortuary.

We all wish our Brother Dennis Fair Winds and Following Seas.

(To all Minutemen. This is why we have an NMCB 62 Alumni Group Website and Database. If you haven't taken the time to fill out your database information, perhaps you should make the time.)

Norm Hahn
NMCB 62 Alumni Group

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I just received this email. Don Hair is not in our database, but the time frame is our 1st Deployment: Dec 66 to Aug 67 to Hue-Phu Bai. If anyone know anything about Don Hair, send me an email at normhahnjr@yahoo.com. It would be nice to get his lighter back to him. Here is the email:

Hi,
I'm a Vietnam vet, Navy Corpsman, 1967. I found a cigarette lighter along a road in Phu Bai around September/October 1967. It has the inscription Don Hair, Seabees, M-C-B-62.

I still have this lighter and would like to find Don Hair to return it to him.

Thanks,
Josh Hoffman

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A BIG "Thank You" to the following five Shipmates who have renewed or joined the Alumni Group during the month of October 2013.

John "Tommy" Byrum. 66-67, Camp Baker

Tom Cunningham. 1970, Red Beach

Ron DeBock. 72-75, Diego Garcia, Guam, Edzell

Ken Marshall. 66-68, Edzell

Admiral Kent Riffey. 73-75, Guam, Rota.

To join or renew your membership, just go to Link #7 on the website.

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Minuteman Passes Away. NMCB 62 Command Master Chief Alex Christie passed away on 11-10-2013 in Gulfport. He spent twenty years in the Seabees and retired out of NMCB 62 in May 1984 as the CMDCM.

His biography and obituary are in our website "Members Only", link 21. Anyone who served with or knew him can leave a tribute to Master Chief Christie here in this guestbook. I will include your tribute in his biography.

We wish our Seabee Brother Alex Christie, Fair Winds and Following Seas.

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My dad is David Ball. He was in Vietnam in 67-68 in Phu Bai in the Headquarters Company. Anyone out there know him?

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I was BU3 stationed In Gulfport, MS 1981. Was in Rota Spain before that. Met a lot of good friends that I lost touch with. Pat Burke,Gary Fink, Dan Morgan, John Weiss, Cliff Brown,Dave Boyd, Herb Mueller from Echo Company. Give me a shout. Fitz

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Hello to all from "Cowboy" still kicken 2013;go figure

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Minutemen: I received this sad news from Admiral Kent Riffey, who was an XO of NMCB 62 and is an Alumni Group Member.

Hi Norm,

Wanted to make you aware of the sad loss on 25 October of one of 62's finest alumni, Captain Donald Keith, CEC, USN (Ret.). Don passed away at home in Bremerton, WA, following an off and on battle with cancer. Don was a rare breed, having enlisted at the age of 17 and progressing to Chief Utilitiesman, then Warrant Officer, and on to being commissioned as an LDO Ensign in 1968, and moving through the ranks to Captain with a level of professionalism that was a model for all. Among his assignments, Don served in NMCB's 1, 9 and 62 (two tours), Naval Support Activity DaNang RVN, NAS Whidbey Island, XO of the Naval Construction Training Center Gulfport, Chief Staff Officer of 20th Naval Construction Regiment, Chief of Staff and then Commander CBLANT and Chief of Staff at COMCBPAC from which he retired in 1990 after 36 years of dedicated and remarkable service. He's one of only two in the CEC to have risen from E-1 to 0-6, and the only former enlisted to ever become COMCBLANT. His awards include Bronze Star with combat V, two Legions of Merit, two Meritorious Service Medals, three Navy Commendation Medals, and Navy Achievement Medal, among other awards. Don was not only as not a great Naval Officer, but a superb American in all respects. Don is survived by his wife, Imma and sons Donald, Tony and David. His memorial service was held Thursday, 31 October, and he was buried with full military honors on Monday, 4 November at the National Cemetery in Tahoma, WA. Any donations in Don's memory should sent to the Seabee Memorial Scholarship Association, P.O. Box 6574, Silver Springs, Maryland 20916.

Wish I had better news but I know many 62 alumni will remember Don and want to know.

Kent Riffey