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junkman203 t1_iu2tku9 wrote
Strikingly!
BanditSixActual t1_iu3amq1 wrote
Some sailors definitely had a crush on your mom, lol.
creepy_old_white_guy OP t1_iu4a3so wrote
I heard my dad make that joke once, but only once. He said he joined the Navy to ride the waves!
creepy_old_white_guy OP t1_iu4a7ft wrote
Buy me a drink first, sailor.
creepy_old_white_guy OP t1_iu4aczi wrote
Thanks to everyone for the lovely comments.
HawkeyeTen t1_iu5dmi8 wrote
What was your mother's job (or was it classified)? I know some of those ladies did some pretty wild stuff during the war (one team of WAVES was actually tracking down Nazi U-Boats in the Atlantic and passing the intel on to the combat boys, their methods were so secretive IIRC that they couldn't talk about their work for decades). Regardless, a very courageous and seemingly very kind lady.
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creepy_old_white_guy OP t1_iu5zh0u wrote
Thank you for thinking of her.
She was a clerk/typist at the Inyokern Naval Ordnance Test Station, which is now known as China Lake.
I don't know about anything top secret, but considering naval rocketry was/is the purpose, I would imagine security as being paramount. She never really spoke of it.
Sorry for the deletions. I tried adding a link to an image of the unit patch, but the bots are having an issue with it.
Old-Base-6686 t1_iu2qjg4 wrote
Beautiful!