SSN 680 FAMILYGRAM: 28 MAR 2019
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SSN-680 familygram:Â 28Â MAR 2019 |
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 REGROUPEX 20 PLANNING SURVEY COMPLETE!Visitor ,  The REGROUPEX 20 Planning Survey was completed on the 8th of March, and the results are in. Well, sort of. Kind of. Maybe. You get what you get. We had 69 complete responses, and another 11 that were never completed, but provided partial information, which I appreciate nevertheless. I wanted to personally thank each and everyone of you who participated. Not only did the general drift of your contributions bring some clarity to the process, but your comments and suggestions were insightful and well thought out, not to mention sometimes humorous and endearing. We’ve come a long way since those days on the boat! Â
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 LOOKING FOR REGROUPEX 20!Attention in the boat! REGROUPEX 20 is tentatively scheduled for June 2020, plus or minus, in the Seattle/Bremerton area. Which is something like saying liberty ports are confirmed through Hobart, if you happened to fall victim to WestPac 83-84! It’s our goal, however, to do better than that! Note specifically that June 2020 is only 15 months away, and there is work to be done to confirm the exact dates and locations. I am currently researching optimum dates, possible hotels/accommodations, and activities of interest to our Association members and need some help. This is a call for anyone living in the Seattle/Bremerton/Northwest Washington area reach out and let me know three things. Â
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 MASTER SAILING LIST RESEARCH STATUS REPORTThe Master Sailing List Research Project was started at the beginning of March last year with the intent of identifying all officers and enlisted that have been assigned to the USS William H. Bates (SSN 680) and incorporating them into the Master Sailing List. To do so, it would be necessary to obtain all of the boat’s muster official muster reports, known as Officer and Enlisted Personnel Diaries, from the National Archives and Records Administration. Using these documents, as well as Enlisted Distribution Verification Reports and Officer Control and Distribution Reports, it was anticipated that we would be able to verify all existing members and identify all personnel that had been assigned to the USS William H. Bates (SSN 680) then incorporated them into our Master Sailing List. At the time, I naively estimated the project could be completed by the end of 2018, but, as they say, little did I know! Â
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 AMOEBA RACES 2019 INVITATIONAmoeba Races! For those in the know, Amoeba Races are the grand-daddy of SSN-680 reunions. The first known Amoeba Race was held at Ocean Shores, WA, on August 29, 1998. Attended by crew members from the late 70’s (and Ted Mercure) the festivities of the day charted the course for USS William H. Bates reunions to come. For those of you that dream of simpler times, when a group of shipmates could gather and reminisce (OK, lie their way through dozens of sea stories) without much advance notice, cost, or effort, your time has come. For those of you that can’t wait to reconnect until June of next year and REGROUPEX 20, this may be just the thing. Terry Stanley has thrown out the invitation to all of us to join him on his farm in Theodosia, Missouri, on September 21st of this year for another of the much-heralded Amoeba Races. He has offered to smoke 4 or 5 slabs of ribs, chickens, brats, hot dogs, etc., and whip up a batch of beans for anyone who wants to spend the day on the farm with all the similarly inclined shipmates willing to muster. Â
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SternshotFor those of you on the Dink List,  and you may not know who you are, but you get slapped on the Dink List as soon as we find out your email isn't working (because you changed it and didn't update your profile on the website) or because you never click on any of the links in the Familygrams that arrive in your inbox.ÂOur Familygram mailing list keeps track of bounced emails and links clicked on. It's our way of seeing what's important to you so we can make the Familygrams more helpful and interesting. It also tells us indirectly who's still alive and kicking, which is getting more and more important with every day that passes. So, keep your email address up-to-date and include your phone number on your proflie so we can get in touch if the Familygrams start bouncing back. For the rest of you, when a Familygram shows up, which should be at least once a month, click on a Read More link or two and let us know that it's still a green board on your end! Brad Williamson |
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 The USS William H. Bates (SSN 680) Association exists in service to former crew-members of the Sturgeon class nuclear powered fast-attack submarine, the USS William H. Bates (SSN 680), their families, friends, and associates.  © 2019 USS William H. Bates (SSN 680) Association
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