Tuesday 10/31/2006 8:49:12am

Name:

Roger Searcy

E-Mail:

rogersearcy@bellsouth.net

Homepage URL:

http://www.rogersearcy.com

Location:

Griffin, GA

Comments:

I served from 1961-1965 in V-4 division. Great experience with great shipmates.

Saturday 10/28/2006 11:05:38am

Name:

David Ernst

E-Mail:

dme1961@hotmail.com

Location:

Austin, TX

Comments:

I served aboard from 80-82 in M-Division number 1 main engine. Had the best experience a sailor could ask for, with the best shipmates and friends that I miss everyday. GONZO station, fun liberty calls, life in Japan.
The best duty you could have as a sailor from Montana.

Saturday 10/28/2006 11:03:52am

Name:

Bob Luttrell

E-Mail:

boblutt43@yahoo.com

Location:

Woodland Park , CO

Comments:

The Midway was my first duty out of radio school in San Diego. I came aboard the ship Nov 1963 in Hawaii. Can't remember exactly, but I think I spent about a year onboard.

Friday 10/27/2006 8:44:37pm

Name:

Chet Morris

E-Mail:

snipe69@gwi.net

Location:

Portland, Maine

Comments:

A Division Diesels - 1962-65
Chief Kelly's Boys

I saw the Old Girl on Fox News tonight. She was lookin' good! It made me miss her more than ever.

Thursday 10/26/2006 1:25:56pm

Name:

Tom Williams, CWO-4, USN, RET.

E-Mail:

surfgunner@earthlink.net

Location:

Perryville, AR

Comments:

I served onboard as Ship's Gunner (G-2 Division) from mid 1987 until retirement April 1989. Great times with extraordinary people and a clean ship that met it's commitments....plus!!!

Wednesday 10/25/2006 7:49:24pm

Name:

Bill Reisen

E-Mail:

denali189@msn.com

Location:

Albuquerque, NM

Comments:

Served with VF-111 during 1965

Monday 10/23/2006 10:57:56pm

Name:

Roman "Romie" Och

E-Mail:

ochubski@rea-alp.com

Homepage URL:

http://www.vaq136.com/romieoch/index.html

Referred By:

A friend told me

Location:

Long Prairie, MN

Comments:

After I graduated from AO "A" school in Jacksonville, Fla, I chose from a selection of billets to be stationed on the USS MIDWAY for the 1955 world cruise. I can still remember the cold day, manning the rails dressed in our pea coats and gloves as we pulled away from pier 7 to get underway for Mayport, Fla to pick up our air wing. At last we were on our way for warmer weather in Cape Town, South Africa, but we also had the equator crossing on our minds, the initiation by the Shellbacks was pretty rough but after it was over we sat around and had a good laugh on what just happened to us. I believed that I was stationed on two of the greatest aircraft carriers the navy had to offer to a young man in the mid 50's THE MIGHTY MIDDY and the MIGHTY "O". Our time in the Formosa Straits came and went but still my time in the navy was a wonderful experience.

I want to thank Troy Prince for all that he has done for me. All of us ex-Midway crew members and any one else that is interested owe Troy Prince a great big thank you for keeping the wonderful web site alive on the history of a great ship. My son Tony spent over three years on the MIDWAY in the early 1980's, both of us spent two days July 5th & 6th, 2006 of this year for a visit to a great ship. Oh by the way I was ships company V-3 aviation ordnance and my son Tony was a BT. And again thank you Troy Prince for a wonderful web site and I do spend more time than I should but I still enjoy doing so. --Thanks a lot

Monday 10/23/2006 4:10:04pm

Name:

Tim Daley

E-Mail:

daley58@hotmail.com

Location:

Washington, DC

Comments:

I'll never forget the Midway. I never lost so much sleep and had so much fun in my life! Sweated in the "hole" in M Division from Feb. 1977 to Feb. 1979.

Thursday 10/19/2006 7:23:24pm

Name:

Terrence E. Hobbs

E-Mail:

ethobbs57@aol.com

Location:

Alexandria, VA

Comments:

I was a Fireman (Machinery Repairman Striker) aboard the USS Midway about June-October 1952. Then went to USNA Prep School, then to USNA and graduated in class of 1957.