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Bruce DeVlieger

May 21, 2016 by Jim Gaspard 8 Comments

  • Contact Bruce at bd13811@hotmail.com
  • Newark Valley, NY

I was on the Mazama from 1965 to 1967 in the Gunny Division (I think it was called) as FTG3rd class. What stories I recall! Laundry guy’s arm in the ice machine to a 2,000 lb bomb rolling up someone’s arm on deck. Tons of good memories too.

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  1. Jim Gaspard says

    May 21, 2016 at 2:18 am

    Hey Bruce, I remember these as well as the Doc. The fat-bomb crushing accident was pretty serious and it was a day before seas calmed down enough so we could evac him to a carrier. Saw him a couple of years later and he had 90% of his hands use back. Doc gaspard

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  2. Jim Gaspard says

    May 21, 2016 at 2:20 am

    Bruce, come see us in Portland Maine in September. Plenty of guys from this WesPac Cruise.

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    • Bruce DeVlieger says

      May 26, 2016 at 12:36 pm

      Did you get a message I sent you under CONTACT?

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      • Jim Gaspard says

        May 26, 2016 at 10:51 pm

        No, can you resend? Doc

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    • Bruce DeVlieger says

      September 7, 2016 at 7:15 pm

      Sorry I cannot attend the reunion. Just noticed the crew list shows me on board from 66 – 67. Actually I reported on 11 Jan 1965 in Mayport, FL.

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  3. William Bill Gohde says

    May 21, 2016 at 4:10 am

    Hey Bruce, Bill Gohde, class of 65/68.How have you been…we are all getting together this Sept in Portland, Maine..it’s a AE/AOE SAILORS ASSOCIATION, we have one every year, In different parts of the states..Lots of Mazamaites on hand,and lots of stories…

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  4. F M Rick Becker says

    May 21, 2016 at 4:59 am

    Bruce, I remember you, but didn’t really know ya,
    Rick Becker EN-3 in M-Div. in Iowa
    My grandson is a FC-3 on the USS John Paul Jones DDG-53 in Pearl Harbor. His weapons system is the CIWS 20 MM Gatling gun !

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  5. jimmy moore says

    July 20, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    The laundry guy was seaman John Smith and he got his arm caught in the extractor in the laundry and it twisted him arm off. I was a seaman in the laundry during that time.

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