Greg Selby:  

Enlisted Navy 7-11-1963. RTC Great Lakes Co. 292. NATTU ABF "A" school in Philly & Bayonne. Stationed U.S. Naval Air Station (Leeward Point airfield) Guantanamo Bay, Cuba then aboard the flight deck of USS Forrestal CVA-59 in the Atlantic, Caribbean and the MED. Navy service gave me a great liberal arts education, exposing me to twelve unique countries, principalities, territories and cultures. From eighteen to twenty years of age I enjoyed extended visits to Barcelona, Spain; St. Paul de Vence, Cannes, Grasse, Gulf Juan, Toulon and Nice, France; Monaco; Monte Carlo; Genoa, Naples and Taranto, Italy; Athens and Piraeus, Greece; Beirut, Lebanon; Valletta, Sliema, Malta; Palma de Mallorca, Majorca; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Heady stuff for a young kid! Some memorable historic anecdotes include proudly marching amid a sea of dress whites into Soldier Field, Chicago on 08-31-1963 for a Bears exhibition game. Arriving GITMO 02-15-1964 just after Fidel had the base water supply cut off forever. Playing tag with Soviet frigates and aircraft from Gibraltar to Beirut and back. Briefly anchoring off the beach of Palomares, Spain on 03-15-1966 as the U.S. struggled to find her lost H-bomb from the depths nearby. Fun fact: It was found two days later by the 2-man civilian crew of Alvin (DSV-2) at a depth of 2,550 feet. Not as otherwise portrayed by Hollywood! Just sayin'. Shout out to ALL veterans of any service in any era that signed up, showed up, and manned up the watch. Also, a special salute to ALL of the combat vets who did the ...Expand for more