This is my first post that includes an image!
USS Stribling (DD-867) Second from Left
USS Stribling (DD-867) was my first US Navy assignment. I reported as an Ensign, US Naval Reserve, mid-August 1970 after a few weeks of school at the Development & Training Center (DATC), Naval Base San Diego, CA.
Strib was homeported in Mayport, Florida. We deployed in late August 1970 to the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. We returned to Mayport in March 1971. Strib was a Gearing Class destroyer commissioned on September 29, 1945. I served aboard her as Main Propulsion Assistant until July 1972.
I bought the postcard above at the Naval Exchange in Mayport in August 1970.
I eventually retired from the US Navy in August 1994 as a Commander (CDR) after 24 years of service!
I’m going to have to join the USS STRIBLING shipmates organization!