Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 62 Alumni Group

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To The New Year To All Bu 2 62 RVN 66-68

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Congratulations to the twelve Minutemen/Edzell, Scotland Seabees who have just joined or renewed their Alumni Group Memberships:

Battistoni, Eugene "Batman" BU3, 68-70 Randolph, Joel "Joe" EA3, 71-75
Bird, Jerry "Birdman" DK1, 70-75
Rowe, Fred UTW2, 66-68
Hicks, Paul EO1, 68-70
Smith, Malcolm EO3, 68-70
Mazza, Joe BUCN, 69-72
Wells, Kraig "Cotton" BU3, 72-76
Mosher, Fred MR1, 71-73
Whittington, Richard "Bud" E5, 69-72
Parker, Mike BUL3, 66-67
Wollenhaupt, Paul EA2, 68-71

To see the names of all the Alumni Group Members, go to our Website and click on Link #8.

To become an Alumni Group Member, go to our website and click on Link #7.

To view hundreds of links to Seabee Battalions, Vietnam, Military and 18 other subject areas, go to our website and click on Link #4.

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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