United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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' lined h e ' re i we wherever ' ifsi one who ' 5 ' tiatldon ' t ■o ' tiersatfor- ingyoupar- inything from inviting her, I •iw you come ' f Wand all I It ' s all pretty ' fet my Squad ,yes, be as... well, [specially Mr. you on Sunday kids enjoying 13 August 1967 Dear Kath, I ' m sorry that you can ' t come down for parents weekend. I understand that Danny looked great in his uniform when he came home from Basic training, but don ' t you think that this is just a bit hasty? I mean, he didn ' t even graduate from High School. You didn ' t have to send back my ring, I can ' t have it here anyway. Please reconsider; my invitation for Dec. still stands. Hope to hear from you soon, Terry

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8 August 1967 Dear Mom and Dad, Wow! The last week or so has been really amazing. First, we saw the change of command for the CNO. Chief of Naval Operations. He ' s the guy who sits on the joint Chiefs of Staff and is in operational command of the whole Navy. It was over in the field house, and there were all kinds of brass there. I ' ve never seen so many Ad- mirals in my life. The Admiral who was retiring was Admiral McDonald. He was relieved by Adm. Moorer. All in all it was pretty impressive. Last week also we were going over to the rifle range. We had to get up real early and eat chow at 0600. Then we went across the river to the Naval Station. In the mornings we shot the M-1 and in the afternoon we shot the .45 caliber pis- tol. It was really hard work, but a lot of fun. In (he evenings we went out on Farragut fioki and had dry run practices which they call snapping in. On the last day we fired for record, and ev- erybody in our company qualified. That ' s really good, ' cause we get more color points for it. I shot high enough to get Expert on both the rifle and the pistol! That means I get two more rib- bons to wear. How about that? We did so good that we even got carry-on over the weekend. Oh yeah, remember how I told you that we were learning to march? Well we ' ve started having P-rades. We ' re not the best, but we ' re pretty close, and that ' s good too, cause they count toward colors too. I got to be platoon command- er too. That means I ' m in charge wherever we go. I ' m pretty proud of it, but it ' s also pretty bad because if we screw up, I ' m the first one who gets static for it. The consolation is that I don ' t get inspected quite as much as the others at for- mation. I ' m really looking forward to seeing you par- ents weekend. Have you heard anything from Kathy? I hope you don ' t mind my inviting her. I really want to show you around when you come down. We ' ve learned all about the Yard and all of the monuments and buildings. It ' s all pretty impressive. I also want you to meet my Squad Leaders. They ' re just outstanding. Rough, yes, but I kinda think that I ' d like to be as . . . well, just like them, in a couple of years. Especially Mr. Badadrio. That ' s about it for now. I ' ll call you on Sunday afternoon. O.K.? How are the kids enjoying vacation? See you soon. Love Terry i ' tOUt-

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31 August 1%7 Dear Mom and Dad, It was great to see you again. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Thanks espe- cially for not mentioning Kathy. Things got pretty hectic around here after you left. I guess they didn ' t want us to have any time to start thinking about the week- end. We had this thing called a snowflake drill. First, we had to bring around all of the clothes that we owned (except both sets of sweat gear, which we were wearing) and then we had to bring all of our locker clips around too. They did this for all three pla- toons in the company which Is over a hun- dred guys. They made us empty all of the stuff in this big humongous five man room over on the other side of the wing, and then they mixed it all up. After that, all of us crowded in, all over the place, and they closed the doors and windows and turned on the hot water in the shower and sink. Then we started doing exercises. They weren ' t very tight about it, and it got to be pretty hilarious when they yelled for every- body to start doing pushups. Have you ever tried to do pushups on someone else ' s back, with two more guys on yours and everybody laughing? To put it bluntly, it was a riot. After it was over we had to sort it all out and put it away before taps. We didn ' t make it. In fact, we were up half the night getting it done. Oh well! We ' ve got town liberty over the Labor Day weekend, and we ' re getting set to move into our Academic year rooms. I ' m still rooming with John, but we ' ve got Bill Smithson in with us. We ' re looking forward to the return of the Brigade with mixed emotions. The going ' s supposed to get pret- ty rough again but I think it ' ll be O.K. Write soon. Terry m