contributed these scans from the HERMITAGE. He was a SFP-2 on board from 1967-1970.
I was going through an old Navy medical locker that I had got from a decomissioned ship. It was full of many things I had saved while on the HERMITAGE. I found this shield. We usually made these out of plaster, but this one I mixed JB Weld and made it out of steel. It is in perfect shape. I thought you might enjoy looking at it.---Jack Pusel
This brochure was distributed in Aruba in 1968.
This panel is from our Vietnam cruise when we rescued the Billy H .
From The Gator, newspaper of Amphibious Forces, U.S.Atlantic Fleet Aug 30 1968
From the front page of the Nassau Guardian and Bahamas Observer, Thursday, July 4 1968
This is the 1957 jeep of Dale Kelly that I drove as a kid and now own. It is almost restored. I need to shoot one more coat of paint later this fall or next spring. Wind came up when I was shooting last coat and I need to sand out and reshoot. I finished it off enough to run in a couple parades and one car show. It is a big hit around here. CJ, thanks for your work on the Herm newsletter.----Jack Pusel U.S.S. HERMITAGE, SFP2, 1967-1970 1967. (July 22, 2009).
