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Thanks for sharing

Aka. Nightmare Island. MarDet USS Coral Sea and used the facility to do our pistol qualifications 1977-78

I remember Drum fitting out when I attended Nuclear Power School at Mare Island in 1970.

I grew up in Concord, right across the bridge from Vallejo and never even knew subs were built or worked on there till we got our assignments at the end of sub school. One of my classmates got assigned to the Russel. Saw it in Norfolk one morning with its dry deck shelter. My shipmate must have had some interesting duty.

Ty chief very enjoyed the flick USN ret 11/6/76-12/31/05

I lived on the Island from Late 1960 to late1962 when my father was stationed there. Saw submarines being built and saw remnants of the old WWII fleet subs.

Ok. I was there at CSTSC in '81 Data systems "A" school. Every once in a while u would see a sub pulling in or headed out. I liked that base. Was isolated and vast.

Grew up in Napa in the 50's and early 60's, many of my friend's dads worked here. In '68 the Navy sent me to Nuclear Power Plant Operators School up at the north end of the island.

So your decision was to close both long beach and mare island? In reality they ended up closing, long beach, mare island, hunters point, treasure island, alameda, concord weapons station, ruff and ready island, moffitt field, the presidio, and I'm sure I'm missing a few. They decimated whole communities, and people's lives. Now mare islands yard has finally opened back up and the Navy is now bringing ships back for maintenance.....which tells you they should have kept it and downsized but not completely close the base.

I smoke hella weed on mare island

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Worked Mare Island from 1960 to 1987. FINE people and could make ANYTHING!

And I lost my job 3 years later..as a single mom of 2 boys back then it was devastating!

My father was stationed at Mare Island while in the navy as a submariner and went to work there as a civilian upon getting out of the navy. He called shops 36 & 67 home. I spent a lot of time fishing the water front, public pier and the end of lemon st. All the while staring across at the subs wondering which one Dad was working on... Miss ya Pop!!!!

Close all Cali bases

The Olympia is, in fact, the oldest surviving steel warship. The hull of the Warrior was entirely made of iron. The first steel-hulled ship was the French ironclad Redoubtable which was launched in 1876 but it was sold off in 1911 and scrapped a bit later.

There was no real need to close mare island

disgusting.

Attended CSTSC in '87

Seawolf.....SSN575 . ????!

anyone from sub development group #1 ?

They are planning to put the U.S.S. Texas on land. Should do the same for Olympia if ever possible.

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Enjoyed it very much Chief, Been working at the VA Clinic there and i've been curious about the history.

Thank you so much. I watched many of the boats go down the ways. My Dad was the Assistant Fire Chief of Central Station and as a young man Dad often let me ride the fire truck to the lunch site. We had to be there because they used explosive bolts to let the boats go down the ways, a fire hazard. I have some catches from many of the boats as well as programs which match the catches.