Something good on Facebook

[RickN]

Outside of harassing family and friends I stumbled across something else good on FB. My favorite old duty station has a FB page. Barbers Point Naval station, Coast Guard side. Lots of pics to bring back memories. Even similar one to my old Zippo before all the color rubbed off. Yes I carried it for years back when I smoked. Someday I will try and find someone talented enough to repaint it for me. I can hold it, run my thumb over the design and it brings back so much. Some bad but mostly good.

 

[rc508pir]

Spent many a day in the beach there. I lived in Eva Beach a few years

 

[Seadog]

Outside of harassing family and friends I stumbled across something else good on FB. My favorite old duty station has a FB page. Barbers Point Naval station, Coast Guard side. Lots of pics to bring back memories. Even similar one to my old Zippo before all the color rubbed off. Yes I carried it for years back when I smoked. Someday I will try and find someone talented enough to repaint it for me. I can hold it, run my thumb over the design and it brings back so much. Some bad but mostly good.


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I’ve still got my old Navy zippos with the ships engraved on them. I avoided the painted ones because most don’t have an engraving under them and the depiction would disappear. Like you they brings back memories. Good and bad. For me mostly good and a bit blurry from the stupid amounts of booze I was always swilling.

 

[John6185]

Yep, I treaded a pack of Kool cigarettes in Vienam for a hand carved swager stick and still have it above the TV console. I still remember that day. 11 cents was the cost of a pack of cigarettes (I didn't smoke and never have) and I believe I wouldn't be alive today if I smoked.

 

[TerryMiller]

Yep, I treaded a pack of Kool cigarettes in Vienam for a hand carved swager stick and still have it above the TV console. I still remember that day. 11 cents was the cost of a pack of cigarettes (I didn't smoke and never have) and I believe I wouldn't be alive today if I smoked.

It varies with people. I smoked for 41 years, about half of which was Kool filter cigarettes and the rest with an unfiltered pipe.

Lungs and all are still in good health...

...maybe God is just looking out for me.

 

[Camo]

Outside of harassing family and friends I stumbled across something else good on FB. My favorite old duty station has a FB page. Barbers Point Naval station, Coast Guard side. Lots of pics to bring back memories. Even similar one to my old Zippo before all the color rubbed off. Yes I carried it for years back when I smoked. Someday I will try and find someone talented enough to repaint it for me. I can hold it, run my thumb over the design and it brings back so much. Some bad but mostly good.


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Were you Coast Guard?

 

[dennishoddy]

Yep, I treaded a pack of Kool cigarettes in Vienam for a hand carved swager stick and still have it above the TV console. I still remember that day. 11 cents was the cost of a pack of cigarettes (I didn't smoke and never have) and I believe I wouldn't be alive today if I smoked.

It varies with people. I smoked for 41 years, about half of which was Kool filter cigarettes and the rest with an unfiltered pipe.

Lungs and all are still in good health...

...maybe God is just looking out for me.

I paid .10 Pack in Basic and .11 overseas. The PX back at Ft Leavenworth was .35.
When they said it was going up to .55, I quit smoking with some help I've discussed previously.
Now the VA is saying even quitting in the 70's can still bring on issues. They want to test every Veteran.

 

[Raido Free America]

Outside of harassing family and friends I stumbled across something else good on FB. My favorite old duty station has a FB page. Barbers Point Naval station, Coast Guard side. Lots of pics to bring back memories. Even similar one to my old Zippo before all the color rubbed off. Yes I carried it for years back when I smoked. Someday I will try and find someone talented enough to repaint it for me. I can hold it, run my thumb over the design and it brings back so much. Some bad but mostly good.


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I was stationed at McGregor Missile Range, NM, part of Ft Bliss TX, back in 1963/64. We decided to drive down through that country in the winter a couple of years ago! I liked it there after I got used to the desert, but I had forgotten just how butt ugly that country really is!

 

[KurtM]

Did you ever run into a Ray Miller while at McGregor? Would have been at White sands and McGregor in those years

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

Yep, I treaded a pack of Kool cigarettes in Vienam for a hand carved swager stick and still have it above the TV console. I still remember that day. 11 cents was the cost of a pack of cigarettes (I didn't smoke and never have) and I believe I wouldn't be alive today if I smoked.

When we were running full speed ahead and had both boilers fired up the stack gas in the fire room was so intense that we had to switch to Kools.
I have asbestos scarring in my lungs due to MRO of those boilers.