uss benjamin stoddert ddg-22 uss jupiter avs-8 reunion association
Our hearts are broken
We sat together at the bar last week in Sacramento and talk always came around to what we were going to do next summer in Hawaii. We had decided a while ago that we were going to end the trip, after reunion in Oahu, on Maui.
In 2014, Turilli took me to Maui and we spent a day in Lahaina, with lunch and drinks at the Pioneer. We spent hours wandering around the bar looking at all the pictures and ship memoribilia on the walls of the bar.
After the fire on August 9, 2023, Lahaina is gone.
After some research, our association has decided to send a check for $1000.00 to the Hawaii Community Foundation: Maui Strong Fund. Go to the menu above (three little bars at the top) and click Show Hawaii our Navy love. It will take you to the ship store where you can donate just like we do with the 50-50.
Thank you for your donations to the Maui Strong fund!
Lou Turilli & Carole BryanMichael Hoffman Hank KoopmanJim & Sue HintonEd DenkJohnny CollinsDanilo ConcepcionJim BrownCharlie OhrnHubbert BoozeDavid HightowerMichael TribbleJerry McCormickTom PaulsonRich PalazzoBill KeyBob BinterArt & Janie HansenNancy MacDonaldMark & Dalma JacobJohn & Barbara BassolinoTed WaypaDan & Cynthia HauschildBernie HelferMike RigdonLeon HallJohn & Jan LekwaJohn & Bernie DishawRon Zorn & Maureen Hauschild
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Thank you, Sacramento! we had an amazing memorable time!
From: Danilo B. Concepcion,
I just read the in the "In Memoriam" section the passing of a great man, Doc Dooley. I served with him as his fellow corpsman until he finished his duty on board the Stoddert. He taught me a lot that, and to this day have used a lot of his inspiration in my medical profession. I now golf and one my memories is how he always had his clubs on our deployments. Such a great, honorable, and gentle man. I'm saddened that he has passed on, but happy that he was a strong believer. He is now home with God. If anyone has contact with his family, please send my condolences,
I just read the in the "In Memoriam" section the passing of a great man, Doc Dooley. I served with him as his fellow corpsman until he finished his duty on board the Stoddert. He taught me a lot that, and to this day have used a lot of his inspiration in my medical profession. I now golf and one my memories is how he always had his clubs on our deployments. Such a great, honorable, and gentle man. I'm saddened that he has passed on, but happy that he was a strong believer. He is now home with God. If anyone has contact with his family, please send my condolences,
Jonathan T. (Jon) Malay (Benjamin Stoddert 74-77)I retired from a 20 career as a Navy ship-driver, oceanographer, meteorologist, and specialist in space systems, and then had a second great career in the aerospace industry representing my company at NASA and NOAA Headquarters in Washington, DC. I'm now happy to be an author, cruise ship lecturer in Earth and Space Science, and a consultant for government business. My wife and I live in Mill Creek, Washington and enjoy boating and fishing on Puget Sound.
I'm also very proud to be a Fellow and Past-president of both the American Meteorological Society (AMS) (www.ametsoc.org) and the American Astronautical Society (AAS) (www.astronautical.org), and an Associate Fellow and former Board member of the American Institute for Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) (www.aiaa.org).
I'm also very proud to be a Fellow and Past-president of both the American Meteorological Society (AMS) (www.ametsoc.org) and the American Astronautical Society (AAS) (www.astronautical.org), and an Associate Fellow and former Board member of the American Institute for Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) (www.aiaa.org).
Frank Chesla 63-66, James Cole 87-91 and Ron Zorn 64-67 at the Savannah reunion.
2 plankholders and 1 decommissioning
Art Hanson 72-76 and Dave Saunders 66-72
have been to every reunion!
Three days after the last Marine Corps helicopter lifted off from Saigon, the author and his Navy shipmates became the very last American military presence of the Vietnam War. This is their untold story, the important final chapter in the history of that wars bitter end.
Look how much fun we have at reunions!
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Welcoming hula dance on the pier
USS Benjamin Stoddert DDG-22, USS Cochrane DDG-21, USS Goldsbrough DDG-20 Pearl Harbor 1966
