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	Plank Owner and member in good standing  NAVetsUSA  Fred C. Jenkins GM3,   USNR   1959-1965 dp_gunner@yahoo.com 2212 Joshua Rd. Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 (610) 834-1459

Joined up at the Philadelphia Naval Base in 1959. Completed boot
camp at Great Lakes and was assigned to the USS Northampton (CLC-l). Went from "skivvy waver" to "deck ape" and finished as a "cannon cocker,"---going through four different ship's divisions in the process.  In 1961 was assigned to the USS J. Douglas Blackwood (DE-219) as an instructor for the 4th section (recruits who had not been to boot camp).  Honorably discharged in 1965.
 
 

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