I served with MALS 26 GSE from 1995 to 1998.

Hey gsemarine94. I did alittle time w/H&MS26 back in the day (before they started calling it MALS). I guess the heavy's got tired of being called hamsters
Welcome aboard.
Tain't much traffic around here but theres some real good reading. There used to be some excellent threads but someone up the food chain decided we only rated about 3 pages or so....

Ya I remember hearing about the name change, thanks for the welcome. Is there anyone other than aircrew on board? I'm just waiting for one of them to ask me if I can speed up their tug!

hey gsemarine94. served H&ms13/MALS13 at El Toro back in mid 80's.

Ya El Toro was my first choice on my "dream sheet" (I'm a Hollywood Marine for sure). But I ended up with New River, guess I should have filled out my dream sheet in reverse.

Correction to my above post, I meant to say H&MS36 but brain farted 26, sorry 'bout that. I made my 1st ever trip to New River just a few yrs ago to check out the MV22 Ospreys, got to fly a sim and shoot the shiat w/the flightline, this bird is going to save lives....

Talking about those tugs, tain't it amazing how a bone stock Ford 302 w/a 2bbl carb and C4 tranny could easily tow 45000 lb birds with ease. Course it was all in the rear

Ya I got to see the Ospreys a little when I was in, they hadn't gone online before I got out. You know they got rid of the old TA-75's, we got their replacement in 97, a year before I got out, they were going to all diesel tugs.
Personally though the JG-40 with it's little Chrysler inline 6 was my favorite.

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Hello gsemarine94. I served with Mals-16 GSE from 1997-1998 at MCAS Tustin and MCAS El Toro. When both of those bases closed and moved down to San Diego, I transfered over to Mals-39 at Camp Pendleton. I was a 6073 (GSE Electrician) and learned to really love the job. I say learned because I went into the Corps wanting to be a helicopter mech but the needs of the Marines came first and before I knew it I was in GSE school. I was a little bitter at first but over time I became a proud member of the GSE community....

Hey gsemarine94,

I served with H&MS 26 at New River from 1970 to 1972 and with H&MS 14 and H&MS 32 at Cherry Point from 1976 to 1978.

I was 6077, GSE Electrician.

Hey Volfandt, I remember the "hamster" name-calling thing only too well!

Hey Retread_Ed, we had to have crossed paths at some time at H&MS32. I was in and out of CPNC all the time. When ever they asked for volunteers to go TAD I'd try to be the 6072 member.
My last stint at H&MS32 GSE shop was Jan 77 to June 77. Names escape me now but I knew everyone by at least their last name, most by their 1st.
It was a good shop, even tho I was always trying to leave it
Ends up me & Ron Mann crusied the Med at the same time but on different rust buckets and may have met
Welcome aboard.

Hey Volfandt,

I wasn't in H&MS 32 very long. I had just got off Recruiting Duty and they pulled me out of the GSE shop pretty much immediately and made me the barracks SNCO (sucked). Bottom line... me and the CO (can't remember the good Major's name - but I remember he was a skinny little guy - he would run backwards during PT and light up a cigarette and talk about how farked up we all were because we couldn't keep up with his silly a$$!)

Anyway, me and the good Major had it out about me being shuffled off in the corner (went head -to-head pretty hard about it - lucky I didn't get my a$$ busted back to Sgt!)

So, the good Major railroaded me out of H&MS 32 and I went to H&MS 14. Best move I could have made! Great shop! The OIC (again... can't remember the Captain's name - but I remember he was a Harrier pilot who had been on the Blue Angels before he came to Cherry Point) was a good guy. MSgt Tomasome was NCOIC of the shop.
I was in the Parts Room - worked for Gunny Hobbs, then Gunny Beard when Hobbs left.

Did you know any of those guys?

I can see faces plain as day but the names are gone, locked away in the deep abyss of my deteriorating BHG
Gunny Hobbs sounds familure tho.
I was with H&MS14 just out of A school and just long enough to catch 90 day guard duty, then get shipped off for 13 months to beautiful Okinawa by the sea, so I didn't meet anyone in that shop.
A Gunny ran the H&MS32 shop and we had a retired gunny there as a civy tech rep. Our OIC was a Capt and Harrier pilot also. It was a pretty good shop except it was at CPNC
I recall having to paint the barracks just before I got out. It would have been around April or May of 77. It was punishment for running around the flightline with my T shirt off try to catch some rays. I got awfully salty on all those TAD assigments, especially those with those slimey squids

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Originally posted by Volfandt:
I can see faces plain as day but the names are gone, locked away in the deep abyss of my deteriorating BHG

Not surprising.

You're an old fart.

Bwaahaaa, you oughtta know, bro