Nathan Boyd:  

I was born in Arkansas and moved to California around 1959, when I was in second grade we moved to SSF and I attended Martin School, then Parkway with a small amount of time at Pulaski Height Jr. High in Little Rock for the 9th grade. I returned to SSF to attend SSFHS and Graduated in 1972. I had joined the Navy on the delayed entry program in March of 1972 so two weeks after I graduated I was in Boot camp in San Diego. After San Diego I attended Navy schools in Great Lakes, Illinois. From there it was back to California for more school at Mare Island. After graduating from school at Mare Island I left for a three month stint on the USS Saratoga CV60. I left the Saratoga and joined the USS Nimitz in 1973 and transferred off the Nimitz in 1978 to go to Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. While on the Nimitz I learned how to Scuba Dive and learned after 8 or 9 parachute jumps that I was just paying people to scare the hell out of me. In 1980 I left Puerto Rico for the Harbor Clearance Unit 2 in lovely Little Creek, VA to learn how to be a Navy Diver. Training was very tough, the first day we started with 39 people and at the end of the day only had 18 left. But of those 18 only two failed to graduate with the class one for blowing out his eardrum and the other for finally getting a school he wanted, he was already a Navy Seal so he really didn't have much to lose by quitting diving school. After graduating from Diving School i went to the USS Yosemite AD 19 in Mayport. We spent our time there diving everyday working on ships. Often with trips to Fort Lauderdale to do some s...Expand for more