Kami Seya Reunion

KAMISEYA ROSTER
Part Two

Updated 24 July 2002 By Webmaster Barry
Welcome Aboard Shipmates and Marines!
If you wish your information posted to this roster, send it directly to the Webmaster and he will add you as soon as possible. Joining the website does not automatically add you to the roster.

Name: Kent McCandless

Rate/Rank at Kami: CT2(M)

Dates at Kami: August 1958 to October 1960

E-mail Address: kentmc@ida.net
Contact Address: Kent McCandless, 768 E 65 North, Idaho Falls, ID 83401
Information: I want to hear about the old base and maybe hear of some of my old buddies. I was stationed at Kami Seya from August of 58 to October of 60. I was a CT2(m) when I left. Really enjoyed the duty, the friends and the food at the Navy's finest recipient of the Ney Award three years in a row. Listen to the grunts complain about chow and we go in to multiple entrees, weekend breakfasts cooked to order, grilled (charcoal) steaks at least once a month. Good Duty! I have wanted to find several of my friends, Harold Dean Knight, Lawrence G. Hatmaker, and on and on. We had a good unit that I was proud to be part of. Even had some good Marines, Like Sgt English. Larry Hruska went to Butte School of Mines in Montana, but I lost him after that, I think he went to Australia. I worked for a bank for 18 years after I got out and then was a Deputy Sheriff for 25 years before retiring. Thanks for going to the trouble to set up this site.

Name: John (Jack) R Lee
Rate/Ranks at Kami: CTSN(A)-CT2
Dates at Kami: May59 - Jul61
E-mail address: minuscule@earthlink.net
Contact address: 41-1010 Kalanianaole Hwy, Waimanalo HI 96795

Information: Worked in the IBM shop in the basement of building 1. Started out collecting multi-colored paper from the ditty boppers and delivering green and pink to offices topside; nobody realized, nor I, that color blindness works is wondrous ways; only lasted 1 watch; as the green copies ended up on the pink desk and the pink ended up on the green desk; guess it mattered to somebody as I got transferred to the IBM shop; as I could type; and as they say everything else is history; been in computers, mostly, ever since; 'cept for a tour of duty in Karamursel, after a year in Monterey, and a tour on the USNS MULLER (habana) have lived in Hawaii since '71.

Name: David A. Sharpe
Rate/Ranks at Kami: CTOSR - CTO3
Dates at Kami: Aug 83 - Dec 85
E-mail Address: david.sharpe@juno.com
Contact address: Fort Meade, MD
Other Information: Kami was great, especially since I got to have my
first duty station in Japan !!! Met lots of great people, some of which I still see today. Hope to hear from other Kami vets. Ja, ney.

Name: Andamo (D'no) Warfield

Rate/Rank at Kami: CTR1

Dates at Kami: Apr 87 - May 91

E-mail Address: awarfiel@tampabay.rr.com

Other: Retired in Dec 98 as a CTRC(AW). Currently residing in Tampa, FL.

Name: George H. Martin

Rate/Rank at Kami: CTR1

Dates at Kami: Jan 55 - Jan 57 and May 63 - May 66

E-mail Address: KN2gsjghm@aol.com

Information: We were at Seya from January 55 to Jan 57 when we departed for Okinawa and Torii Station. Then I was back at Seya from May 63 to May 66. Through two fires. We caught ditties back in the 50's and we were P&R in the 60's and happy to be there both times. Seya was my first
station out of IB. We are still catching ditties and also throwing ditties till this day. Ham call is KN2GSJ, had that call the first tour there.

Name: James "JJ" J. Hansen
Rate/Rank at Kami: CPL, E-4 USMC "R" Branch
Dates at Kami: Dec 69 - Jun 69 (left for 2nd Radio Battalion)
E-mail Address: hj59@qwest.net

Information: Thanks for all the work.

Name: Allan Lampert (Ziggy)
Rate/Rank at Kami: CT3
Dates at Kami: 4 July 86 - 4 July 88
E-mail Address: ALZWERLD13@aol.com
Other: I currently live in Lake in the Hills, IL. Still a die hard Cubs fan! I am married to Karen my Angel! I spend a lot of time writing and I have finally been published!

Name: Jeremy Norris
Rate/Rank at Kami: QM3
Dates at Kami: Jan94-Jul92
E-mail Address: JNorris@rei.com

Name: Bernard Fitzpatrick "Fitz"

Rate/Rank at Kami: CTSN (Language division)
Dates at Kami: Sep 57- Feb 60

E-mail Address: chipka33@cs.com

Information: Sent to Chitose 1 year 59. Hard to remember many names, Tom Grady, Jim Dupuis, Lt.jg Collins,Tom Wilson, Paul Decelles, Ross Love, Jim Townley, Critch Critchfield, Tom Cooney, Hep Duncan, Joseph Lehner, Tom Breakfield, Frank Spicer ???? Traveled back in 74 as a civilian and stopped at the Main Gate, it was a good memory. Especially because I was not bussing it.
Bernie Fitzpatrick
West Palm Beach, Florida

Name: Nick (Nick the Blade) Anthis

Rate/Rank at Kami: CTO3

Dates at Kami: Jun 86 - Aug 88

E-mail Address: neanthis@hotmail.com

Contact Address: PSD 814 Box 20, FPO AE 09865.

Information: What a fantastic idea for a web site, I really miss that place. I'm glad Jim Hessman decided to send me the link. You know you have to put my name on there. I was stationed there from Jun 86 to August 88. My nickname was "Nick the Blade" (you have to ask Kurt Brindley about the nickname). You have my E-Mail address here. I am currently stationed in Souda Bay, Greece.

Name: D. Bridges

Rate/Rank at Kami: CT3

Dates at Kami: Aug 64 - Sep 66

E-mail Address: Km4mm1@aol.com

Information: Cortinas and Chevelles.

Name: Rick Lallish "Ozzy"

Rate/Rank at Kami: CTO2

Dates at Kami: Jan 86 - Dec 87

E-mail address: rlallish@hotmail.com

Contact Information: 1405 White Street, Greenville, IL 62246, (618)-664-0722
Information: I separated from the Navy in 91 and moved here to Greenville, IL (just outside St Louis, MO) and work for the city here...i try to keep an eye out for my shipmates and love to hear from any and all of you.

Name: Gerald M. Geiger
Rank/Rate at Kami: CT2/CT3 (R-branch)
Dates at Kami: 2/67-11/68
Remarks: Currently living in Santee, CA, senior at SDSU majoring in history. Married with two daughters and one grandson. Got out in 68 and affiliated with Reserves. Went back on active duty with admin bust from CTR1 to CTR3 in 1975. NSGA Northwest 75-79, NSGA Charleston 79-83 (made CTRC), CINCPACFLT Staff 83-91, USS JOUETT (CG 29) 91-94, USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN (CG 57) 94-96. Retired as CTRC(SW) in 1996. Never was, or will be, another place like Kami. Young, single, and loose in Chinatown....Sigh!

Name: Chris Brimhall
Rate at Kami: CTOSR-CTO2
Dates: March 23, 1985 through July 17, 1991
Email: Chris.Brimhall@AFBIC.com
Other: I spent the best 6 years of my life at Kami. I then spent 3 years at Imperial Beach in San Diego, CA and I got out of the Navy in Dec. 1994. I moved back to Florida and finished my college degree. I moved to Arkansas to work for Arkansas Farm Bureau. I'm a claims adjuster and have been with Farm Bureau for almost 5 years. I live in Benton, Arkansas which is about 25 miles west of Little Rock. I've been married to Darla Wilson for almost 7 years. We have a beautiful 2 year old daughter (Rylea) and a boy on the way with a due date of Nov. 15th, 2002. I'm hooked on deer hunting and playing golf.

Name: Richard K. (Dick) Fisher

Rate/Rank at Kami: CTI3/CTI2 1st tour, CTI1 2nd tour

Dates at Kami: Dec 57 - Jan 60, May 64 - Oct 65

E-mail: dstrbd1@hotmail.com

Contact Address: 4857 Springtree Drive, Arlington,TN 38002
Information: Arrived right out of I.B. & Lang School at Anacostia two days before Christmas in 1957. I remember the guys took me to 4 1/2 street in Chinatown that night for my introduction to the finer points of intercultural exchange.

Wife "Adela", joined me in the spring of 58 and we lived "on the economy" in Tsuruma & Minami Rinkin until I made 2nd class and we got quarters in Yokohama (Negishi heights). The best duty station a sailor could ever have asked for, I was fortunate enough to go back after a tour a Ft.Meade and one year unaccompanied at Adak. I saw "Fitz" Fitzpatricks profile, it's hard to remember names after 45 years but I do remember him and Tom Grady, Tom Wilson, Ross Love, Jim Townley, Critch Critchfield, Tom Cooney, Tom Breakfield, Frank Spicer, Stuart Libby, Chuck Whittaker, & Bobby Kayes.

We have six kids, 4 boys & 2 girls. Retired from Navy in 76 and from Civilian job as National Sales Director for Petrochemical and Aerospace fabrications in 1996. Retired in Arlington, Tennessee, fish, play golf, travel, (space "A") enjoy my 4 grandchildren.
Have read "Blind Man's Bluff" and "By Any Means Necessary", both bring back a lot of memories. Would love to hear from any of the guys. Please give me any info on the 2002 reunion.

Name: Stan Wiebe
Rate/Rank at Kami: CTT2

Dates at Kami: Jan 66 - Nov 67
E-mail: stan@wiebe.com
Contact Information: Minneapolis MN 55442 763-383-0680
Information: I posted some sayonara photos to Joe Glockner's website. Enjoy movies, camping, reading, family, visiting, music. Married to JeNell since 1992. Have 3 children from first marriage and 2 step-daughters. All late 20's, early 30's. Our 10th grandchild is due in July 2002. Currently Chief Information Officer at a county hospital in Minneapolis.

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