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- Upper left is Recruit Roger Graves
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- Co. 93 Naval Recruit Training – Great Lakes, Illinois
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- T-28 2 Place Trainer
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- SNJ Training aircraft lined up on the tarmac, circa WW2
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- The rear of the hangar where I worked on the second floor, weather office just below the tower on the left.
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- Barin Field, Foley Alabama – A WW2 vintage photo
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- SNJ Trainers lined up on the flight line at Barin Field during WW2
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- T-28 at Barin Field
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- Barracks at Barin Field, Foley, Alabama – 1958
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- T-28 with flight crew
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- In the Navy 1959
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- The front gate at Pensacola
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- T-28 currently on display at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida
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- Arial view of the air station
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- One of the modern barracks at the base.
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- A flight crews pose with one of their modern jet trainers
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- Pensacola is the home base of the Blue Angels
Roger in the U.S.Navy 1957 – 1961
I joined the Navy in 1957, fresh out of High School. I received my basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center near Chicago. I then attended Aviation Fundamental School in Norman, OK, then off to Aerographers School in Lakehurst, NJ. In ’58 I was assigned duties to the Operations Division, Weather Office at Barin Field, Foley, AL. The base was decommissioned 6 months later and off to nearby NAS Pensacola. After approximately one year there, I was off to Norfolk, VA serving aboard the USS Albemarle, AV-5, a Seaplane Tender. We decommissioned the Albemarle, then transferred to the USS Randolph, CVS-15, an Anti-Submarine Aircraft Carrier. I was honorably discharged in February, 1961 after serving 3 years and 11 months.
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