Text Box: 4 Text Box: Voluntary Dues Text Box: Dover, Fred Draper, L.E. (Rusty) Dunn, Jim Edney, Edward* Edwards, “Sonny” Elder, Robert Erath, Gerald W. Espointour, Maurice Fayard, Gary Feathers, Paul J. Finlayson, Leonard Fortine, Archie Frans, Jack Fraser, Douglas F.* Fry, Steve Gamradt, Max Getman, Donald G. Goble, Marion Goodrich, Jesse Gordon, Ed* Graves, Darrell Green, Kenneth* Grubb, Jack Hager, Robert W.* Hall, Charles L.* Hall, Leroy* Halvorson, “Hal”* Hammons, Willis* Hanson, Dave Harman, David Harrelson, Glenn Hickman, Bernard Hitt, John W.* Hnatovic, Ronald Hoover, Frederick . Johnson, Kermit Text Box: Adams, Richard H. Alsleben, Keith L. Arstill, William H. Auwen, Bryan Barnett, Kenneth Berg, Alfred S. Bisping, Neil A. Blenkhorn, Charles Bogusch, William* Boren, Ben Boswell, Robert G. Breedlove, James E. Brewer, Melvin L.* Brondel, David Brown, James E.* Brown, Kenneth L. Brown, William Buchanan, Kenneth Butler, Eugene F. Caldwell, William Carney, Thomas P. Chidester, David L. Cickavage, Joseph* Coakley, Bill Coldren, Wayne Coleman, Richard Conover, J. W. Cooke, J. Bleecker Cox, Millard A. Crawford, F. Slaton Crowder, Frank Croxton, Mike Cunningham, Michael Dewalt, Gary B.* Dinda, Gerald* Doerr, Gary T. Text Box: Jones, Dale H. Julian, Frank Kirby, Joe Kircher, Vincent Krueger, Bill* Larocque, Leo Leopold, Vincent Loudermilk, John* Lucas, Tom Mackall, Terry L. Maculaitis, Vinny Mahoney, David Malroy, Stephen R. Maness, Jack Maphet, Steve* McClellan, G. A. McCray, David McGrew, Joseph McNitt, Russell D. Meismer, J. C. Mezzanotti, Paul Mitchell, Burley* Mueller, James W. Neighbors, Patrick Ogletree, Ron Oremus, Vern C. Parris, Eddie R. Pearson, Raymond . Petefish, Dennis Peters, Lester R. Petersen, Richard* Pierce, Charles Pilgreen, Vincie* Pitts, John W. Text Box: Proft, Gerald P.* Raymie, Jerry* Reid, James P. Remington, Richard Rudnick, Robert J. Sandrock, John Schulze, Ed Skelley, Jr., Daniel Smith, Clinton Stanford, Roy S.* Stene, Larry A. Stief, Bernard D. Stout, William Thomson, John S. Tucker, George Ulrich, Walter Van Atta, Keith A. Vaughan, Joe* Vydra, David Ward, Everett* Ward, Robert H. Watson, Marvin* Weigt, Earl E.* Weston, Keith* Wiesemann, Donald Will, Howard L.* Wright, Paul Young, Lucius E. Young, Robert A.   Text Box: Again, thank you to all shipmates that have sent dues and donations to the Association.  Without your support, it would be impossible to publish "The Rolling Stone", maintain the Website, find lost shipmates and have our reunions.  Dues are $20.00 a year, are tax deductible, and are strictly voluntary.  All dues are applied to the year they are received unless designated otherwise.  We recognize that not all are able to support the Association, but we welcome support from whomever is able.  Dues received to date for 2004 are listed below.  An asterisk designates dues paid for additional years.  If anyone has paid and your name is not listed, please accept our apology.  Please contact Kay Goble at 6200 Emerald Pines Cir, Ft. Myers, FL 33912, (239)768-1449, or e-mail: president@usswhetstone.net.  Please use this list as your receipt. Text Box: If we can’t kill the enemy we’ll complain them into submission.  “My back hurts!” “I’m hungry!” “Where’s the remote control?”  An 18-year old hasn’t had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war until you’re at least old enough to legally drink.  An average old guy, on the other hand, has consumed 126,000 gallons of beer by the time he’s 35 and a jaunt through the desert heat with a backpack and M-60 would do wonders for the old beer belly.  An 18-year-old doesn’t like to get up before 10:00 a.m.  Old guys get up early (to pee).   If old guys are captured, we couldn't spill the beans because we’d probably forget where we put them.  In fact, name, rank, and seriel number would be a real brainteaser.    Boot camp would actually be easier for old guys.  We’re used to getting screamed and yelled at and we actually like soft food.  We’ve also developed a deep appreciation for guns and rifles.  We like them almost better than naps.   They could lighten up on the obstacle course, however.  I’ve been in combat and didn’t see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after training.  I can hear the Drill Sergeant now, “Get down and give me..er..one.”  And the running part is kind of a waste of energy.  I’ve never seen anyone outrun a bullet.   An 18-year old has the whole world ahead of him.  He’s still learning to shave, to actually carry on a conversation, to wear pants without the top of the butt crack showing and the boxer shorts sticking out, to learn that a pierced tongue catches food particles, and that a 200-watt speaker in the back seat of a Honda Accord will rupture an eardrum.  All great reasons to keep our sons at home and to learn a little more about life before sending them off to a possible death.  Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten cowards who attached our hearts on September 11.  The last thing the enemy would want to see right now is a couple of million old farts with attitudes.   Submitted by Bert McGavock (MM 1962-66) Text Box: Sending Old Men Off To War   If I could, I’d enlist today and help my country track down those responsible for killing thousands of innocent people in New York City and Washington, D.C.  But, I’m over 50 now and the Armed Forces say I’m too old to track down terrorists.  You can’t be older than 35 to join the military.  They’ve got the whole thing backwards.  Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys.  You shouldn’t be able to join until your at least 35.   For starters, Researchers say 18-year olds think about sex every 10 seconds.  Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.  Young guys haven’t lived long enough to be cranky and a cranky soldier is a dangerous solder.  Text Box: JUST FOR LAUGHS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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