The big silver bird awaits. Seeyezallthere!

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Chris O'Keefe
R43136
Ex WO Chippy
19th MOBI Intake
July 65 to July 85
HMAS Nirimba X 4 -Penguin-Sydney-Queenborough - Creswell - Moreton - Stalwart - Platypus - Coonawarra Reconstruction Team 76 - Platypus - Hobart - Cerberus - FHQ - Coonawarra.

Anyone can be ordinary. Shipwrights choose to be extraordinary!

Have a good one boys and girls
Remember
Be good
If you cant be good be careful
If you cant be careful
Wear a condom

Watch out for Weyling lip locks

Viv

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Viv MacLeod
R65148
Morran(March 66)
ME(D)-DENS-WOMTH4
1966 to 1986
Cerberus,Duchess,Waterhen,Hawk,Nirimba, Melbourne,Torrens,Perth, Leeuwin,Stalwart,Stirling,Kutabul

Have fun.
Mind the stairs.

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Fred Russell

Enlisted USMC 3 March 1972 on delayed entry. Active duty 17 June 1972. Due to a Reduction In Force as the Vietnam War wound down, discharged for a minor medical problem , 23 July 1972.

With late advice from Col 'Pussasan' Kelson, Dave Maxwell has been added to the list for lunch, bringing the total back to 19...

The Lord Nelson has been advised accordingly...! I'm heading south shortly...

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

Have a great one guys, perhaps next year

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Henry Schubert
R42972
Ex WOMTH
17th MOBI Intake
July 64 - July 85
Nirimba x 2, Sydney, Lonsdale x 3, Tarangau, Melbourne, Coonawarra, Kuttabul, Stalwart, Jervis Bay, Penguin, Tonga Defence Cooperation, Cerberus Hobart, Harman.

Have a good one guys and girls. Doesn't seem like 12 months since I ran into you lot at Friscos when I was up there for Sydney IV's decommissioning.

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Bruce Francis
R112774
JRTE 40TH Intake
July 72-June73
Ex WM,QMG,Bosun,Paid off Sept 93
Leeuwin,Cerberus x3, Lonsdale, Watson, Coonawarra(DNB), Harman.
Supply, Melbourne, Vampire, Attack, Ardent, Brisbane x2, Fremantle(Commissioning Crew), Sydney-FFG 03(Commissioning Crew), Hobart, Cessnock. Go the Mighty Magpies

Well, another successful Annual RAN SH Sydney Rocks Xmas Pub Crawl Smokey is now behind us, but I'll hold off on a report until tomorrow, and as I didn't take any photos of this year's event,
if Col 'Pussasan' Kelson (who did) would like to send me a selection of his, (or if anybody else cares to,) I'll be happy to upload them...

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

The 14th Rocks Run was "impacted" by the inability of The Frisco to be available. However it was fun as usual. Frisco may have lost a lot of its charm in the rebuild/update.
Some notes:
1. The Bells menu is rubbish.
2. I, along with Shep, Hippy One and possibly a few others were "kicked into" the Bells when the outside area was closed.
3. Shep and I were "kicked out" of the Bells when it closed.
4. The Bells menu is rubbish.
5. I do not want CJ to ever again start buying any sort of Schnapps.
6. I made it to my bed on Friday night.....but NOT into it.
7. We should look at starting/meeting a bit later on Saturday morning for breakkie.
8. The Lowenbrau charged me $75:00 for 3 beers, and on top of that was a ladies drink for CJ. Thank you Pony!!!!!!!!!!!!
9. There was a lot more Orange Juices/Water and Lemonade/Soda Squashs being consumed on the Saturday than I have seen before.
10. There was a lot more Middies, rather than Schooners, being consumed on the Saturday than I have seen before.
11. We may have discovered another pub to have lunch at than the Lord Nelson.
12. Manly is full of lovely women wearing not much.
13. How about doing Cockatoo Island on the Sunday next time???? My new Opal Card will probably get me there as well.
14. The Ship Inn has its share of scrumptious ladies.
15. The Bells menu is rubbish.

It was just bloody great to catch up with everyone again...... plus a few new starters. Doug G, Mick H and Don A.

Less than one year 'till we do it again!!!!!!

So what was the Bell's menu like, Pete?

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Steve Johns
R110510
Ex POETS
31st MOBI Intake
July 71 to July 81
Nirimba, Kuttabul, WRE, Kuttabul, WRE, Kuttabul, Parramatta, WRE, Yarra, Stalwart, Derwent.
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I was thinking of you guys on Saturday afternoon when I had my only beer for the day at 5:30. Tasted nice. I was at Sandown and the bar opens late. So I had a beer with ExCPOMECH James Dodd and we thought of you for a short while.