Beard growing contest
The winners, (left to right, Best, Mountain
Man, Worst, Tie for Best)
My attempt at the beard growing contest
The next 9 images were taken while I cross-decked on the USS Constellation
S-3 Viking, preparing for launch
Those engines are running, I almost got toasted by that F-18 Hornet
C-2 Hawkeye preparing for launch
F-14 Tomcat, preparing for launch
F-18 Hornet, taxing up to the catapult
Me, flying in a SH-60F Seahawk, HS-2 Golden Falcons
Approaching the USS Constellation in the SH-60F
Setting up for battle group photo, Topeka out front
CG-70 USS Lake Erie
The next 2 photos were taken on two different west pacs,
2 years apart, standing in almost exactly the same location.
Chinhae, Korea, street shopping
Chinhae, Korea, street shopping, 2 years later
Topeka in Yokosuka Japan, USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 in background
another of Topeka in Yokosuka Japan, USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 in background
Me dawning pumpkin suit in the torpedo room
Topeka in Singapore Harbor
Swim call in the Indian Ocean #1
Swim call in the Indian Ocean #2
Swim call in the Indian Ocean #3
Swim call in the Indian Ocean #4
Topeka in Bahrain next to USS Dixon AS-37 #1
Topeka in Bahrain next to USS Dixon AS-37 #2
Photo of Topeka taken from the deck of the USS Kinkaid DD-965,
_just before Topeka's famous sunset picture
USS Kinkaid DD-965 setting up for a "Steel beach picnic"
USS Kinkaid DD-965 "Steel beach picnic, March 1995"
Returning to Topeka from the "Steel beach picnic"
Topeka in the port of Jebel Ali, Persian Gulf #1
Topeka in the port of Jebel Ali, Persian Gulf #2
Topeka being sand blasted in Jebel Ali, Persian Gulf #1
Topeka being sand blasted in Jebel Ali, Persian Gulf #2
Topeka in Yokosuka Japan, again
Topeka in a rainy Chinhae, Korea
Topeka looking back at Chinhae, Korea
Topeka surface transitting off Singapore #1
Topeka surface transitting off Singapore #2
Better view of USS Dixon AS-37, Topeka's rudder can be seen
Shore leave Patong Beach Thailand #1
Shore leave Patong Beach Thailand #2
Another picture of Topeka in Patong Beach Thailand
Sunrise over Patong Beach Thailand, taken from Topeka
Shore leave is over, returning to Topeka
Topeka at Garden Island Australia
Another of me in the torpedo room
Topeka anchored in the Derwent River, Hobart Tasmania
Topeka in Pearl Harbor
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