Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 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

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Norm...
Just wanted to thank you for your continued efforts on behalf of the Battalion...and thank you also for the 2013 pics, next best thing to being there.

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Hello, my name is Lonnie I was in MBC-62 from 1971 to 1973. I was a BUCN on Diego Garcia from 1972 to 1973. Went to A-School in Port Hueneme, CA. I was there when Bob Hope and Red Foxx came and did the Christmas show. E-mail me if you know me.

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Just letting everyone know that my father, BUCS(Ret) James T. Richmond passed away on 1 October 2013. He was a Chief Builder with NMCB-62 during recommissioning of the battalion in 1966 and did two tours to Vietnam with the battalion. My mother, Patricia Richmond was a member of the Chiefs Wives Club and her name is on the Plaque located at the Seabee Museum in Port Hueneme.