Tagged by Blunoz

Here are the rules

THE RULES:
1. Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you.
2. Post THE RULES on your blog.
3. Post 7 weird or random facts about yourself on your blog.
4. Tag 7 people and link to them.
5. Comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged.

1. Blunoz tagged me.

2. Above

3. My seven things...

1. I am a Christian.

2. I do not understand folks who terrorize other people. We all are vulnerable and live at the mercy of God. People who bully, rape, terrorize, abuse others make no sense. They too can be the subject of their own stupidity. Jesus' Golden Rule was "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

3. I love my wife, our children and grand children dearly.

4. I have fond memories of the wonderful things my Sister Ruth did for me.

5. I love my parents.

6. Blunoz's tag comments meant a lot to me.

7. I spent 23 years in the USN rising from an E-1 draftee to O-4E serving in Vietnam as an Amphibuious Forces officer, and retiring off of the USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65 on the Battle Group staff.

5. I grew up in Quakertown Pennsylvania.

6. I attended Lehigh University in 1964 through 1966.

7. I can't count. God has given me so many blessings its hard to not mention more of them....

I plan to tag Sagey, Badger, my MS, and YS on their my space, and Blunoz's sons as soon as Blunoz has them start their blogs.

What is a black shoe?

You may wonder what Black Shoe is about.
I was commissioned an Ensign in the Regular Navy, USN December 22, 1971 in Albuquerque New Mexico. Uniform of the Day was Navy Dress Blues. I had at that time been promoted to Electronics Technician Second Class (ETN2, or E-5) with designation of (3324-SU, for Ships Inertial Navigation Technician Submarine Unqualified). I was given the choice of commissioning via either NESEP (Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program), NAPS (Naval Academy Prep School) or continue enlisted with duty going next to New London Connecticut. I had chosen NESEP and spent the following 40 months in Albuquerque at the University of New Mexico, UNM.
In those times there were two officer groups referred to; black shoes and brown shoes.
It was in the Zumwalt era, Adm Zumwalt was the Chief of Naval Operations July 1970 until 1 July 1974 Black Shoe Navy referred to the Surface Navy Forces, while Brown Shoe Navy referred to the Navy Aviation Forces.
Black shoe seemed a misnomer, since surface officer summer uniform was khaki colored with a brown belt and wore brown shoes, sometimes referred to as the Buster Brown uniform. Aviators on the other hand had a similar belted blouse top in dark green. Every USN officer had three dress Class 'A' uniforms, Blues, Whites and either Surface Officer's Khaki or Naval Aviator's Greens.
The last version of the belted Greens I saw was on a blimp pilot in 1974.
I loved being in the Khaki belted blouse uniform for its trim professional look.
The White Class 'A' uniform was sometimes referred to as the Good Humor uniform, perhaps a reference to the ice cream company of that name. I believe my wife fell for the Dress White uniform.

The State of Oregon has a ballot measure, Measure 50, to make health care part of the Oregon State Consitution.
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First Call

This is my first blog entry on Friday October 19, 2007.
My whole family has blogs and I've been really pleased with what they have had to say on them and how they have conducted themselves on them.
This link was spawned from my son's site, http://blunoz.blogspot.com.