Every navy ship based in San Diego leaves on deployment through these waters. North Island has an air station and has the aircraft carrier piers. The 32nd street naval station is further on down the bay. It is the second largest naval station anywhere with more than 50 ships home-ported there.
San Diego and Coronado is home to the Naval Amphibious Base the home of navy seals for the west coast and seal training and North Island naval air station.
Point Loma is home the the US Marine Corps training station, Naval anti-submarine warfare command, and Submarine Squadron Eleven. There is also the US Coast Guard station there.
Now on a more personal level, we had the privilege of living on Coronado two times and it was wonderful. We could walk to the beach or the bay in a few minutes. This leads into the next story.
We on the Kitty Hawk pulled into port near the middle of June of 1967 after a WESPAC cruise. It had been a long cruise. We left in November of 1966 and we were just getting into port in June. Joyce had gotten pregnant in October before I left on cruise and was due in June. She had moved up to Glendale so she had some family nearby. I expected to see the expectant Mother on the pier, but her doctor said she shouldn’t make the trip, so my cousin was there to meet me. Joyce was due at any moment. She had our daughter in June. Joyce often teases me about getting her pregnant, leaving for months on a pleasure cruise and then showing up at the end of her pregnancy.
I was never in Norfolk, Virginia, but heard stories from sailors about how those people thought so lowly about sailors. I was in Brunswick, Georgia and experienced how southerners in the east felt about sailors and it was not good back then. San Diego was never that way as far as my experience went. San Diego was the quintessential navy town and I loved it.
Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2019 and beyond.
San Diego and Coronado is home to the Naval Amphibious Base the home of navy seals for the west coast and seal training and North Island naval air station.
Point Loma is home the the US Marine Corps training station, Naval anti-submarine warfare command, and Submarine Squadron Eleven. There is also the US Coast Guard station there.
Now on a more personal level, we had the privilege of living on Coronado two times and it was wonderful. We could walk to the beach or the bay in a few minutes. This leads into the next story.
We on the Kitty Hawk pulled into port near the middle of June of 1967 after a WESPAC cruise. It had been a long cruise. We left in November of 1966 and we were just getting into port in June. Joyce had gotten pregnant in October before I left on cruise and was due in June. She had moved up to Glendale so she had some family nearby. I expected to see the expectant Mother on the pier, but her doctor said she shouldn’t make the trip, so my cousin was there to meet me. Joyce was due at any moment. She had our daughter in June. Joyce often teases me about getting her pregnant, leaving for months on a pleasure cruise and then showing up at the end of her pregnancy.
I was never in Norfolk, Virginia, but heard stories from sailors about how those people thought so lowly about sailors. I was in Brunswick, Georgia and experienced how southerners in the east felt about sailors and it was not good back then. San Diego was never that way as far as my experience went. San Diego was the quintessential navy town and I loved it.
Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2019 and beyond.
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