Goat Locker Gang

[Jack Dickey]

If ya know what a Goat Locker is in your current life , and are a member of it , or knew what one was in another life , and was a member of it , then we have our own social group here at SMC ..

PM me if you are/were a member of this fine organization , and I'll send you an invitation to join it ..

[Ken Fitzgerald]

My Dad was a Chief Bosun'...I was an ET1....my youngest was a LT. and is now a CPO...

Goat locker?:confused:

[Jack Dickey]

Goat Locker = Chiefs Mess

Retired GMCS here

HHMM perhaps yur yungest was a Chief and is now a LT ??

Hadda chance for free college when I joined , looking back shudda done it ..

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Jack...I kinda thought that is what it was....that's why I pointed out my father and youngest son being CPOs....

[Ken Fitzgerald]

No was a Navy LT. and is now a CPO. He resigned his commission and enlisted before he got up from the table and they geve him E-6. He has since been promoted to E-7. He has a degree in Natural Sciences (pre-med) and is currently going to dental school on a Navy Scholarship. If he does the 4 years of dental school as an enlisted man, they count towards retirement. If he did it as an officer...they didn't count. Of course...all doctors and dentists start as Lts.....so when he graduates dental school....he's back commissioned at the same rank as before.....

[Jack Dickey]

Smart move ....

I have few regrets , not taking free college is one of them , but , wasnt meant to be i suppose .. Course by now I'd be a grumpy senior captain or admiral

[David Christopher]

Jack, Im a engineman chief with 20 years and 6 days in and getting tired but like a paycheck

[Jack Dickey]

Dave , I was on shore duty at NAS Pcola brig , Bldg 710 from 79-81 .. I know the Lady Lex is gone , but it was on the road theat went to the peir , and seems the personnel office was down that way too ..

[David Christopher]

Jack, my first ship was the Lex. and I am finishing my last tour at the Brig.

[Jack Dickey]

Brig still down that away ?? CCU across the road on the waterfront ?? Chow hall across parking lot behind the brig ??

[Jack Dickey]

When I was down there quite a few of the guys spent their entire career rotating between the Lex for sea duty and one of the shore billets in the area .. And most were from NW Florida and Alabama ..

[Don Abele]

Jack, thanks for creating this group. It's truly an honor to be part of another Goat Locker, especially this one. Thanks to Dewey for forwarding this too me. I was just logging on to check in at home before breakfast...what a surprise of an invite.

I've posted over on the group.

Again, very glad to be part of it...thanks again Jack.

Be well,

Doc

[Jack Dickey]

Sure doc , be safe in the sandbox

[Lee Schierer]

I've been in a few goat lockers does that count?

[David Christopher]

I've been in a few goat lockers does that count?

Lee, was you in a goat locker or a goat pin

[Lee Schierer]

Lee, was you in a goat locker or a goat pin

I even got fined for being late to an initiation.

[Jack Dickey]

I even got fined for being late to an initiation.


Seems I saw somewhere you were a 4 striper ???

[Lee Schierer]

Seems I saw somewhere you were a 4 striper ???

Yep, 26 years and 28 days. USNA class of 71.

[Jack Dickey]

Hadda couple cousins went there , one was about your time or maybe a year or two earlier , think he ended up a NA , youger brother ( my age ) was Class of '77 ..

Older one got out , younger was a CDR , SC , I think ..

[Jack Dickey]

bump .........

[Tim Morton]

Dave , I was on shore duty at NAS Pcola brig , Bldg 710 from 79-81 .. I know the Lady Lex is gone , but it was on the road theat went to the peir , and seems the personnel office was down that way too ..


I was in Pcola summer of 80 for photoschool...luckily i never made it to the brig...of course not for lack of trying:cool: