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This presentation is dedicated to my oldest daughter,Rose A. Callahan-McAlpine, born in Trenton,

New Jersey, two months into my six-month Mediterranean cruise on the U.S.S. Shangri-La (CVA- 38).

Rose was six months old before I saw her for the first time.

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Eighteen years later Rose graduated from Beaufort High School in Beaufort, South Carolina. Rose decided she wanted to

follow her Daddys footstep and joined the Navy entering it shortly before my retirement.

Upon completion of boot camp at the newly opened Orlando Facility, Rose transferred to Naval Base Charleston, South Carolina. After four years of duty she reenlisted for the first timeand was subsequently transferred to VP-5 at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida.

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Rose re-designed the squadron emblem on this plaque.

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Rose re-enlisted the second time while stationed with VP-5. She requested I be allowed to participate in her re-enlistment ceremony.This is the first time I read and she repeated the oath of enlistment, thus beginning a family tradition that continued until she retired 16years later.

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This is a computer readout that is no longer readable.It showed our location at the time Rose took the oath of enlistment, in this case over Disney land, Florida.

After taking her oath the pilot flew out to sea and over the USS Forrestal (CVA 59) a ship I served aboard as flight deck/SAR corpsman with

VMA 331

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USS Forrestal CVA -59

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Rose was the mother of one when she transferred to VP-5. While stationed at VP-5 she was deployed to

Bermuda Rota Spain Naval Air Station, Sigonella, Sicily

Finishing her tour with VP-5 she transferred to the

Navy Recruiting Station in Jacksonville, Florida.Rose was promoted and reenlisted at this command.

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When Rose finished her tour of duty as a Naval Recruiter Rose transferred to the U.S.S. Yellowstone AD 41,a destroyer tender. By then she was the mother of two. As ships company she deployed to the Mediterranean for six months. Her ports of call included:

Rota Spain Nice, France Toulon, France Naples, Italy Haifa, Israel

Gaeta, Italy Souda Bay, Crete (Greece) Izmir, Turkey

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U.S.S. Emory LandAfter Roses return from the Mediter- ranean, she was transferred to the U.S.S. Emory S.Land AD-39, a submarine tender,for temporary additional duty.Completing this duty, she was

transferred to the U.S.S. Resolute AFDM-10, a medium auxiliary floating dry-dock .

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Roses fourth reenlistment took place aboard the U.S.S. Resolute. With access to submarines Rose

decided to introduce her surface sailing independent duty qualified fleet marine force hospital corpsman dad to the silent sea service. (The only hospital corpsman to volunteer for and take the helm of the USS Tallahatchie County for a couple of supervised hours wearing Marine fatigues while transiting the Sargasso sea taking air dale marines to

Vieques Puerto Rico for live fire exercises .) To accomplish this goal her fifth and final reenlistment took place aboard the U.S.S. Flying Fish SSN 573 a fast attack nuclear submarine.

U.S.S. Tallahatchee County LST 1143/AVB-2

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Roses last command was the Naval Air Maintenance Training and Repair Group (NAMTGRU) Norfolk, Virginia. Knowing retirement

was next, she wanted to make it a family event. By the time Rose completed 20 years of active and continuous service, her younger brother Bobby had graduated from the University of South Carolina and was a captain in the Air Force .

When a sea service members retires custom calls for someone to pipe

them ashore. Rose wanted her daddy to pipe her ashore. She had her skippers approval.

During her retirement ceremony Rose presented me with a Shadow Box containing the medals and awards we earned during our respective careers. Our medals appeared on either side

of a centered brass plate inscribed with the duty stations and dates of service. With Rose finishing her career I was awe struck by the fact the three of us had served something greater than ourselves and dedicated 60+ years of continuous active service to this country by the time my son finished his. This dad could not have been prouder.

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