This is the USS KILAUEA AE-26. This is the ship that I spent nearly all my active duty time on. This ship had four  3'50 Caliber gun mounts, one forward of Unrep Station 3, one forward of Station 4, and the other two were port and starboard aft on the 03 deck.. This was the day before the feminization of the afloat community began.

This is a photo of the E-Division taken on my first WestPac. I am kneeling down bottom far right.

This is a close up shot of picture above, this was Admiral Zumwalts  Navy. I had to visit the Washington Navy Yard in DC to view one of the Kilauea Cruise Books in order to get this picture. I used a Pentax 10 megapixel SLR camera to take these photos. My advise if you take on a similar project it to go there with a Digital Camera a regular point and shoot or Cell Phone Camera does not cut the mustard. The family and I originally went up to DC in June of 2009 to accomplish this with regular cameras the results were not good. I returned to the Navy yard in October of 2009 enroute to Clyde, New York and retook these pictures using the digital and the quality has turned out to be far superior.

 This was taken from the 1976 Cruise Book and shows me manning the sound powered phones during an Under Way Replenishment.  I look at this picture now and I wonder why I had such a hard time with American girls. I was not ugly.

I may have this guys name wrong , needless to say how can you ever forget the guy who knocked out your two front teeth in the chow line. I believe that his name is James Strickland. I was too groggy when I got back from emergency dental surgery to write him up for the assault. He felt so guilty that he went AWOL so that he would get busted and go to Captains Mast. As time progressed he would take issue with anyone who was trying to beat up on me.