1980-1993 A-E

• Randy  Adcock HT-2
  219 W. Jefferson
  Pittsburg , PA

  Email Address: joseph6998@hotmail.com
  Current Occupation: Maintenance

  Boarded: 02/15/86
  Departed: 12/28/88

  Signed onboard this site: September 11, 2004

   

• Laszlo B Almasi SM3
  2104 Langdon Road
  Raleigh, NC 27604 USA

  Email Address: loballeng@mindspring.com
  Current Occupation: Owner, Carolina Watercraft Works, Inc.

  Boarded: 1/1/1985
  Departed: 4/1/1988

  Signed onboard this site: January 16, 2005

   

• Charles Auldridge, SK3
  11624 Jollyville Rd
  Austin TX, 78759

  Email: charles.auldridge@nextel.com
  Current Occupation: Public Safety Manager
  
  boarded: 05/01/90
  departed: 12/23/92
  
  
  Experiences to remember:
  
  Where do you start with being on a gator! 3 Med cruises in 3 years, 2 weeks in Cuba, and sitting off the coast of Liberia. That was a joy! I would like to get in touch with anyone that was on there from 1990-1993

  Signed onboard this site: January 30, 2003

   

• Jerry L Babb BM3/LT
  USS Carr (FFG 52)  

  FPO AE 09566 USA

  Email Address: suppo@carr.navy.mil
  Home Phone: (757) 277-6870
  Current Occupation: Supply Officer

  Boarded: 11/15/1986
  Departed: 7/30/1988

  Signed onboard this site: December 16, 2004

   

• Paul D. Basnight, SN now CTA1
  9756 Avenue A
  Baton Rouge, LA 70807

  Email: bnite@hotmail.com  
  Current Occupation: US Navy, Retiring Soon!
  AOL: not2noght3
  YAHOO: gofigure59
  MSN: bnite@hotmail.com
  
  boarded: 10/05/84
  departed: 04/12/86
  
  
  Experiences to remember:
  
  Serving in deck with a bunch of guys who had far more potential to do other than things than being a deck hand. The experience as a whole was an eye opener to try and achieve greater goals and not settle for the first option you get in life. Thanks Charles for referring this site to me. I never knew it existed.

  Signed onboard this site: February 25, 2004

   

• William R Bealefield IC3(SW)/HT2(SW)
  19915 Winding Branch Dr.

  Katy, TX 77449 USA

  Email Address: bealefield@sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com
  Home Phone: (281) 386-7933
  Current Occupation: Electro-Mechanical Technician

  Boarded: 9/15/1989
  Departed: 3/23/1993

  Signed onboard this site: April 11, 2005

  
   
• Todd Behm, EN3
  12 Teaberry Lane
  Hope Valley, RI 02832

  Email: nuuker@cox.net
  Current Occupation: Facilities Engineer
  
  boarded: 05/10/89
  departed: 06/15/92
  
  Experiences to remember:
  
  Hello everyone, I had some good times on the Sumter. Some of the best life experiences happened there. Marty, Dane ,Shane, TCupp, Todd, Zank, and I am sure everyone knows Master Chief miss you all.

  Signed onboard this site: January 11, 2003

   

• Jim Benson, BM2
  6020 319th
  Toledo, Ohio 43611

  Email: jbensonx@buckeye-express.com
  Phone: 419-729-5402
  
  boarded: 10/05/81
  departed: 10/04/85

  Experiences to Remember:
  Had a good time with BMC Wooley, all the boatswain guys were great.

  Signed onboard this site: January 10, 2003

   

• Andrew  Bove SN
  1809 Lone Oak Dr.

  Leander, TX 78641 USA

  Email Address: andrewbove_2000@yahoo.com
  Home Phone: (512) 260-2966
  Current Occupation: Sales

  Boarded: 11/26/1990
  Departed: 9/25/1991

  Experiences to Remember:

  Hey , just wanted to say I love the Sumter! Any old sea dogs out there? Padro,Gong,Hog Head! If any one reads this and remembers me beating the crap out of QM3 Aldritch or remembers BM3 hoghead Valencourt.

  Signed onboard this site: November 19, 2004

  
   
• Richard A. Brauburger, ET1
  337 Berlin Rd
  Bolton, MA 01740

  Email: rick@homeport.org  
  Phone: 978-779-6286
  Current Occupation: Electrical Engineer
  Website: web.homeport.org/~rick
  
  boarded: 04/01/87
  departed: 08/01/91
   

  Experiences to remember:

  John Johnstone, Stewart, Gates, Posada, Jensen, Combes, Alverez, Scott Thrasher, Joe Renton, Lou "the evil slash from hell" Lasher, Brock, Jeff, Porter, Jake, Rocky, Chris Naylor, Buck Medlin, Lynn, Carson, Chief Robert "Dr. Death" Farrow, etc. Some of the best times of my life. Many not repeatable in this forum. Many times getting rusty in the weight room. Kicking footbag on the flight deck. Picking on Ensign "tater" Tatum. Drinking rum in a dusty wh@#$house in Ecuador and hooking my best buddy up with the best looking transexual in the place (whoops!). Making my division officer, Ensign Foster "pop tall" by imitating the captain's (Steve Reis had a very distinctive voice) voice when he was standing JOOD on the wing. Biting an olive out of Manier's big belly after the shellback initiation, I still have nightmares. Eating fresh crab in the Straights of Magellen (Chile I think). The smell of puke below decks the week after bringing the Marines on board in North Carolina, God bless them every one. Kenny G for unreps, disgusting. Press on.
  
  Regards,
  Richard Brauburger a.k.a. Richard Osborne

  Signed onboard this site: January 03, 2004

   

• Eric M Brousseau EM3
  806 General Rogers Rd.
  Charlestown, WV 25414 USA

  Email Address: ohauna@adelphia.net

  Boarded: 8/15/1990
  Departed: 9/23/1993

  Experiences to Remember:

  I would like to thank everyone.Thank you,The time i had spent on the Sumter was good for me. I did alot of growing up with your help.I think we all did.I wouldn’t trade those days for anything. 

  Signed onboard this site: February 22, 2005

   

• Jeffery Bufler, MS3
  5514 Wanda Way
  Hamilton, Ohio 45011

  Email: bufler@fuse.net
  Home_Phone: 8634672
  Current_Occupation: Truck Driver

  boarded: 04/22/83
  departed: 12/14/86

  Signed onboard this site: June 27, 2006

   

• Mark D. Burns, NCC1
  92 Partridge Hill Rd
  Worcester, MA 01801

  
  Email: NCCTBird2@cs.com
  
  boarded: 08/26/86
  departed: 06/13/89
  
  
  Experiences to remember:
  Did a UNITAS deployment ''87-'88

  Signed onboard this site: October 03, 2002
   

• Doug  Campbell BT3
  1600 W Birchrun RD

  Burt, MI 48417 USA

  Email Address: dudglee@usol.com

  Boarded: 1/14/1985
  Departed: 10/30/1988

  Experiences to Remember:
  I can never regret my time one Board the Sumter I met a lot of good friends and I would like to here from all them

  Signed onboard this site: March 28, 2004

  
   
• Keith Clark, EN3
  1 Bethune Way Apt 1002
  Roxbury, MA 02119

  
  Email: kclark@blauer.com  
  Work Phone: 617-536-6606
  Home Phone: 617-427-0974
  FAX: 617-536-6948
  Occupation: Customer Service
  
  boarded: 06/01/85
  departed: 12/11/88
  
  Signed onboard this site: February 25, 2004

   

• Michael Coleman, OS3
  9842 Richwood Ln
  Port Richey, FL 34668
  
  Email: m.s.coleman@verizon.net  
  Work Phone: 800-935-2077
  Home Phone: 727-862-6998
  Current Occupation: Medical Collections Manager

boarded: 03/01/85
departed: 10/01/86

Signed onboard this site: March 03, 2004
 

• Anthony Costa, BM3/BMC(SW)
  Virginia Beach, VA
  
  Email: boatswains_67@yahoo.com
  Work Phone: 904-343-0368
  Current Occupation: LCPO on the USS NASSAU LHA-4

  boarded: 02/18/91
  departed: 05/14/93
  
  Signed onboard this site: March 03, 2004

  Experiences_to_Remember:

  Where to start, well i checked on board in '91 as a deck seaman
  and went to second division, (BOAT CREW) and was in charge of my own boat, LCVP-4, the
  crew consisted of BM3 Rose, BMSN Flemming, SN Miles and myself. We left shortly after that
  for my fist of two MED cruises, each one differnt from the other. Had great times with all
  the friends that i met while i was there that i can't list them all, but just to name a few,
  Palma,Spain with Rich Rose and the English girls we met (class charlie liberty for that one),
  Veince, Italy and the partying in the streets with M Div, Haifa, Isreal at the bars down the
  stairs and Christmas in Valencia, Spain with Tony Gabrille.  And shout outs to Baranska,
  Valencourt, Cartwright, Tibbits, Varges, Harris, Ronnie Reed, Tucker, Miles, Flemming, Rose,
  Hines, Modaddy Morris and all of 2nd div from 91-93, Repair Two (KICK ASS), the Captains Gig
  that got us from onslow bay to moorehead city in 12 foot seas, if you were on board the Gig
  you do remember, and last but not least, O'SULLIVANS bar.

   

• Donald K Cox HT2
  7218 Clinton Rd.

  Upper Darby, PA 19082 USA

  Email Address: donald54@verizon.net

  Boarded: 10/1/1983
  Departed: 1/4/1988

  Signed onboard this site: December 16, 2004

  
   
• William H. Creighton, ET2(SW)/ETC(SW)
  122 Woodlake Ter
  Suffolk, VA 23434

  Email: wcr8on@charter.net
  Current_Occupation: Active Navy

  boarded: 09/20/87
  departed: 07/10/92

  Signed onboard this site: February 27, 2006

   

• Thomas (Deke) DeCaire, EM3
  233 W. Mirre St.
  Alpena, MI 49707

  Email: tdecaire@chartermi.net
  Home_Phone: 989-354-8297
  Current_Occupation: Social Work

  boarded: 01/30/80
  departed: 08/30/82

  Signed onboard this site: March 10, 2006

   

• Alexander  Dixon RM1/ITCS
  5185 Holly Farms Dr

  Virginia Beach, VA 23462 USA

  Email Address: dixona2@yahoo.com
  Home Phone: (757) 519-9539
  FAX: (757) 444-0915
  Current Occupation: Government Contractor
  AOL IM: adfmrhhssc@aol.com
  Yahoo IM: dixona2@yahoo.com

  Boarded: 10/1/1991
  Departed: 10/1/1993

  Signed onboard this site: September 27, 2004

   

• Steve  Dunn EN1
  P.O. Box 141

  Vails Gate, NY 12584 USA

  Email Address: stevedunn@hvc.rr.com
  Current Occupation: Warehouse Manager (Hvacr)

  Boarded: 6/6/1984
  Departed: 6/24/1988

  Signed onboard this site: January 6, 2005

  
   

• Charles Edward East, FC2
  404 West Church
  Carlsbad, NM 88220-5133

  Home Phone: 505-885-6078
  Mobile Phone: 505-361-0547
  Email: admin@usssumter.org
  ICQ: 1632313
  MSN: eastronics@hotmail.com
  GMAIL: coastsideservices
  AIM: HMBSPAS
  YAHOO: coastsideservices
  SMS: coastsideservices@sprintpcs.com

  boarded: 04/1984
  departed: 05/1987
  
  
  Experiences to remember:
  
  My first on-deck experience on the Sumter: Rode the bus from Norfolk to Moorehead City, NC to report to the Ship on her return from a Med cruise. Walked up the Bow Ramp in my whites and sea bag after they finished off-loading the marines and their equipment. The Ship's BMC greeted me with a firm handshake, and ordered another deckhand standing by to take me below, get me a rack, help me unpack, get me a hot meal on the mess deck and back on deck to assist in closing the Port bow door. Little did I know what I was getting into... 4 hours later and totally exhausted, 1st and 2nd Div  managed to close that bow door, a crank at a time... Welcome to deck division! I remember being sent to find the keys to the bow-doors and what an HT punch really was..., I remember mail buoy watch (never stood it myself) and sending Mike Coleman to obtain 50 feet of shoreline from the bos'n locker... He might disagree... but I remember it all too well...

  Signed onboard this site: September 1, 2002

   

• John M Emmons, IC3
  10 Swallow Lane
  Howell, NJ 07731

  Email: je22jets@optonline.net
  Home Phone: 732-370-8469
  Current Occupation: Computer Technician, UPS

  boarded: 12/05/83
  departed: 03/31/87

  
  Experiences to remember:
  
  2 Med Cruises. 2 Mid Atlantics. 3 GTMO'S. Enough said. It was an experience to say the least. Made some wonderful friends and still keep in touch with a few. HT2 Cox. EM2 Strack and EM3 Dille. Great bunch of guys and miss a lot of them. Hope all is well with everyone. Anyone from the 84-87 era drop me a line.

  Take care and be safe.

  
  Signed onboard this site: May 13, 2004
  
   

• Brent Enyart, RMSR-RM2
  101 Kingsbridge Lane
  Yorktown, VA 23692

Email: brent450@cox.net  
Work Phone: 757-887-4395
Home Phone: 757-872-0311
FAX: 757-887-4395
Occupation: E-8/ITCS(SW/AW) ACLANT Yorktown
 

boarded: Mar 1984
departed: Dec 1987

Signed onboard this site: February 25, 2004