REUNION 2024 – PENSACOLA, FL September 25-29

 
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In spite of a limited turnout, we carried on full steam ahead. Hurricane Helene just missed us to the east, as we kept a vigilant eye on her. Hope to see more shipmates at future reunions. Until then please enjoy a few pictures from this year’s reunion.

LCDR Lucero Pipes the crew aboard and presents “The Last Days of Vietnam”

Sorry, could not upload the video. Have to live with screenshots… =(
Ringing the crew aboard
Piping the crew aboard
Toast

Visit to the Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola

Things are serious when the OS’s man the guns…
Typical Squid
“Look a round thingy!”
Kirk to Enterprise

On & Off Tour Pensacola

The local truck eater gets repainted quite often
First stop Joe Patti
Fresh fish shopping at Joe Patti
Quick stop at the Veterans Memorial Park
We left a Kirk Challenge Coin at the Replica Vietnam Wall

Dinner for the crew

MMCM hiding behind his wife. Snipes are better heard than seen, and she’s much prettier.

USS Alabama Museum

Flux Capacitor
Shellback Cert
Things that go BOOM for $400
Things that go BOOM for $600
Things that go BOOM for $800
Things that go BOOM for $1,000
OS’s manning the guns again…
From the fantail looking forward.
Visual of the size of the 16″ gun projectile.
Those OS’s really like manning the guns…
Brown water Navy
Brown shoe
SR-71 of course

USS DRUM

Glad I chose the surface Navy
Aft torpedo tubes

  6 Responses to “REUNION 2024 – PENSACOLA, FL September 25-29”

  1. Kirk shipmates: Another chance of a reunion in September 2024. I had a very enjoyable time at the 2019 reunion in Williamsburg VA. Just like we never left each other. All the sailors who have sailed on Kirk became new acquaintances and friends. The Vietnam guys were especially a great group of guys and I laughed as we laughed and stuck together during our tours onboard Kirk. Sending this out because Kirk was my favorite of my six ships and I treasure the friendship of that time in my life. Mike North our president needs some assistance in tracking down Kirk sailors. He helped me find a Kirk sailor I haven’t talked to in 30 years. It was great to finally talk trash and catch up on our lives, exchange information and initiate verbal banter that does exist when sailors get together. I urge all to think about attending the Pensacola reunion. Sailors recharge my batteries after my retirement. I need it. I personally need to see Kirk sailors when I can regardless if we got along or not. Doesn’t matter anymore, it matters that we served together.

  2. 7/26/24
    Mike north: do you have an agenda for the Fl reunion yet. Want to start making travel arrangements.
    Daniel Lucero Stg-1. Kirk 74-75
    704 287 9865
    Drlucero@outlook.com

  3. My wife and I plan to come – the agenda will determine how long we’ll be around. Thanks for doing this Mike.

    Ken Meyer
    ’76-79

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