Posted on Apr 18, 2017
PO2 Robert M.
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SSgt Jim Gilmore
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I never looked at the term as being divisive. If anything, I used it as a term of endearment applying to those doing a job some of the rest of us either did not or were not qualified to do. Consider yourself one of a select few who may know all the secret truths...Spooks are everywhere.
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PO2 Robert M.
PO2 Robert M.
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SSgt Jim Gilmore Ah, Thailand.............LUCKY YOU!! I appreciate your kind words. Sometimes "knowing the truth did not set you free".
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David Jamison
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PO2 Robert M. - My Dad was a "Spook". CPO CT Retired 1971 (Passed in 2000) Served from 1946 to 1971. Trying to piece his service together. Went from Norfolk to who knows (before me) to UK, to Guam, Phillipines, Hawaii, San Diego and back to Norfolk and Virginia Beach before retiring. He always seemed SO PROUD to be a Spook. My Mom served for 4 years out of college and toted Classified Tubes to him when in DC, Maryland ??? Early before my Bro (1956) and me later (1963). Mom always called him a "Spook" and he NEVER told me a stitch of what he did or what it was for! :) ??? Secrets!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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I will Always be a "Spook" "CTO1" CT1" That is What I Did, That is What We Did! We Made History but No One would ever Know and if they did, It Wasn't until Much Later, We Lived in the Shadows, Masters of Smoke and Mirrors.
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PO3 William Salzmann
PO3 William Salzmann
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I'm with you Bill. CT3 - Training Corry Field Pensacola class 13A - CTR and CTHFDF operator, Midway Island (NQM), San Miguel Philippines (NPO) and USS Ranger (Gulf of Tonkin Vietnam) (NHKG), Proud to be called a "SPOOK"
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CPO Allen D. (Al) B.
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I also was one of those "Spooks". Always thought of the term as one of comaraderie and acceptance by the other rates.
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SN Greg Wright
SN Greg Wright
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Me too, Chief. Welcome to RP! PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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PO2 Robert M.
PO2 Robert M.
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Were you stationed in NavCommUnit - London?
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