still email ben and bill.and sure, i remember the dog.
you can find ben on facebook.
also remember spook yakely. he has a lt as navpro . did pretty well for himself
some other names,
bill lindner
vince lesh
smoke watts
miles pinneman
joe becker
bob walters
gary ferguson
tom ohara
there was one iran taft guy who wound up as a hostage in , don sharer. he had been a calverton navpro.
pretty sure he ended his career as a vf co
Hot Dog is a member of AW, but not a regular. I met him as he came to DC post TAFT to debrief and stayed in touch. He founded Whitney, Bradley & Brown which I joined upon retirement in 1994. He's retired from WBB now, but still prowling the beltway in a Ferrari these days. We just got together last Tue in DC.
I seem to recall Mule Holmberg was a Marine RIO instructor with TAFT and regulars like Jess Parnell and Dog Doyle who ferried Tomcats over. Don Sharer returned from captivity with a nice medal for standing up to captors. When asked what he wanted for assignment, he said a fighter squadron command of course. He was assigned as XO of VF-101 first and then direct inputted into VF-11. He subsequently was promoted to O-6 and I believe ran Dam Neck before retiring.