Does anyone know whatever happened to Sam Sutton? I think he was a BT2. We were at sea in 65 or 66, I was on sounding and security watch. I found him lying on the deck in aft. head with blood pouring from his mouth. He was flown off the ship. I heard he had a bleeding ulcer but never heard another word about his fate.

I remember that, Wes. I don't know what happened to him after he left our ship.

Wes,
Had to be in 65. I remember someone telling me about that right after I came aboard in '66

Don Reed
MM2 6/66-11/68

Don, Sorry you didn't know Sam. He was a really likeable guy. I hope he made it. I thought he was dead when I found him. I think he was like a lot of us that had drinking problems. He was just older and had been doing it longer. I wonder if todays navy condones the wild drunken ways so many of us had back then?

The answer to navy's outlook on drinking: NO!!! If most of us in the 60's navy were there in the 80/90's with the same behavior, we'd all be in rehab. I became a Human Resource Specialist in 1972 and the reform was just underway. There are very few small CPO clubs anymore, the result of the navy's stand on drinking...example: in 1978, a navy chief came out of the club, slammed his finger in the door, and when he went to sick bay and told them he had been drinking, he had to go to alcohol abuse screening. Now, don't get me wrong, there s still plenty of drinking and drunks in the navy, but its not the freewheeling, go-for-broke indulgence we enjoyed(?) in the 60's. Human Resource Management Specialists in the navy teach drug and alcohol prevention, overseas diplomacy, equal opportunity, leadership/management...etc

Chief,
Sure signs of how the liberal losers loused up the military...Bring on the Broads!!

Dave Doty ETR3 65-67

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