Philip Delgado:  

Phil lives in the New England coastal town of Westport, Connecticut located along the scenic Long Island Sound (40 miles outside of NYC)…. away from congestion. After John H. Francis Polytechnic High School graduation and living on Peoria Street in Sun Valley for my entire life, I enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Seaman Apprentice to broaden my horizons and gain occupational experience. Learning typewriter skills at Poly changed my early Navy trajectory by helping me to qualify for technical training after completing boot camp at Naval Recruit Training Center San Diego. Later I graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale through use of the Vietnam G.I. Bill. I retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Lieutenant Commander after serving on numerous ships/shore duty assignments, including promotions to Chief Petty Officer, and Chief Warrant Officer (W-4). Highlights were the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) World Cruise, and Pacific/Mediterranean/Persian Gulf/Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina deployments. Shore duty assignments were in San Diego, Pearl Harbor, Midway Island, San Francisco, Naples Italy (2), Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Returning from deployments and new assignments were always a time of excitement and changes. After Navy retirement I enjoyed a second career with BAE Systems Inc. in Washington DC until I fully retired in 2015. I worked at the multinational NATO Seasparrow Missile Program Office for 14 years before moving to the trillion dollar+ stealth multinational aircraft Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 Program Office, the most advanced fighter aircraft in the world. I now keep busy supporting the local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 399, American Legion Post 63 and boating throughout the Long Island Sound. Classmate Encounters…I had a chance encounter with classmate Dean Hada’s brother, Stan, at Naval Base Norfolk Virginia in 1970 and visited wi...Expand for more