Gene White

July 27, 1940 - September 2, 2023

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US Navy

Dec. 1958 - Dec. 1962

E-5

I was fortunate to have received and graduated from 2 Naval "A" schools while serving in the Navy. #1. Aviation Electrician and #2. Aviation Fuels being the latest school.

Fuels contamination specialist

Stationed:  USS Forestal CVA 59 and USS Kittyhawk CVA 64

I have had the opportunity to have been around the world. North Atlantic, Mediterranean X 2, Cuba, South America, Hawaii, Japan, China and the Philippines.

One not so pleasant experience was in 1962 when waiting to be discharge and I was within hours of being discharged in San Francisco, everything stopped and I was extended for one year of service due to the Bay of Pigs invasion. I was sent back to my ship in the Philippines but luckily it didn't last but a few weeks and I returned to San Francisco to be discharged several weeks later.