Working in the USS Newport News Museum Area.
The goal was to identify all the items that have been donated
and get them logged and labeled.

"Damn, What in the Hell is this?"
Picture #83
From Left to right; Dave Peterson, Art Hunt, Dexter's son (Dex II), John Noll, Al Siegel

"Listen Al, If you call me 'shortie' one more time,
I am going to tell Peggy on you!"
Picture #22
Al Siegel and Mike Lanier

"Yea, I guess told him!  Ain't nobody want'n to get on Peggy's bad side.
She'll take him down to the bottom of Turret 2 and leave him there!"
Picture #21
Mike Lanier (Doc)

"Oh My, I have created a Monster!
What am I going to do with 41 Old sailors and
how do I get them to work instead of
just hanging around and talking all the time?"
Picture #81
Al Siegel

"Crimney.... you would thing that between
the three of us we could figure this out?"
Picture #82
Left to right; Jim Peden, Dave Peterson, Ensign John Simchock

I had a LOT more fun on the ship this time than I did when I served on her !
But I don't remember having such a hard time getting up and down the Ladders !
What a difference 30 years and 50 pounds can make!
Picture #15
Chuck Zendner (Doc Zee)

"Hey Sonny boy, who you calling a Jar Head"
Poor Art, although he was not the ONLY marine on the ship that day, he was the only one that
admitted to it. So all of us sailors picked on him a lot. What else are you going to do with a Marine?
Picture #18
Art Hunt and Jim Peden