3/11/2022 Full Name Gary W Eldridge Date of arrival in Bahrain 23 Feb 1984 Date of departure from Bahrain 01 Mar 1985 Rate/Rating (e.g. CTRSN) CTO1 Email address eldridgegw@gmail.com Add email to the ojnline roster - Yes or No? Yes COMIDEASTFOR/NSGA Bahrain - WHICH?? COMIDEASTFOR Comments and Highlights of your tour of duty! 23 ships - Great Tour 6/27/2014 1.FullName: Don Robbins 2.NickName: 3.ArriveDate: 1985 4.DepartDate: 1986 5.RateRating: CTO2 6.Duty: COMIDEASTFOR 7.Email: Robbinsd004@hawaii.rr.com 8.OnLineRoster: Yes 9.Comments: 8/24/2013 1.FullName: Matthew Perezluha 2.NickName: 3.ArriveDate: 10/08/11 4.DepartDate: 11/16/12 5.RateRating: CTR1(IDW/SW) 6.Duty: Other-Bahrain 7.Email: navyska@gmail.com 8.OnLineRoster: Yes 9.Comments: Tuesday 3/27/2012 1.FullName: Mark Cumber 2.NickName: 3.ArriveDate: Dec 80 4.DepartDate: Dec 81 5.RateRating: CTOSA/SN/3 6.Email: markcumber@gmail.com 7.Comments: COMIDEASTFOR (USS CORONADO AGF-11) 8.OnLineRoster: No Saturday 11/06/2010 9:49:01am Nickname: Mac Full Name: Leo B. McDowell Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTIC Arrival Date: December 1990 Depart Date: March 1991 Unit attached to: JAIC Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Email Address: lb_mcdowell@hotmail.com City_State: Chancellor, VA Highlights of your tour/Comments: Desert Shield Desert Storm Thursday 06/17/2010 12:22:28am Nickname: Full Name: John M. Ickes Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: LT Arrival Date: March 1987 Depart Date: March 1988 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR Email Address: johnmickes@cox.net City_State: Virginia Beach, VA Highlights of your tour/Comments: Astonishing cadre of CTs and related (Army, Air Force, Marine) cryptologists. High Point? The capture of the "Iran Ajr". Low Point? USS Stark. Monday 09/29/2008 11:43:12am Nickname: Tony Full Name: Novak Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: Civilian Arrival Date: 1996 occasional week ends Depart Date: 1997 occasional week ends Unit attached to: FADS-First Arabian Department Stores Email Address: cto1usn@comcast.net City_State: Richmond, Texas Highlights of your tour/Comments: updating email address from previous posting. Friday 05/02/2008 10:42:41pm Nickname: Jerry Full Name: Edward F. Westmoreland Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTO1 Arrival Date: Sep 82 Depart Date: Sep 83 Unit attached to: Staff, COMIDEASTFOR USS LASALLE AGF-3 Email Address: virgovette@msn.com City_State: Wilmington, Delaware Highlights of your tour/Comments: Friday 05/02/2008 10:40:03pm Nickname: Jerry Full Name: Edward F. Westmoreland Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTO1 Arrival Date: Sep 82 Depart Date: Sep 83 Unit attached to: Staff, COMIDEASTFOR USS CORONADO AGF-11 Email Address: virgovette@msn.com City_State: Wilmington, Delaware Highlights of your tour/Comments: Sunday 01/27/2008 5:26:47pm Nickname: Bruce Full Name: Bruce Plummer Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTOC Arrival Date: 2/69 Depart Date: 9/70 Unit attached to: Staff, COMIDEASTFOR (aboard USS Valcour Email Address: bruceplummer@cox.net City_State: El Cajon, CA Highlights of your tour/Comments: Trying to maintain communications in remote areasof the Indian Ocean and the many interesting (once in a lifetime) places the ship pulled into. Friday 09/01/2006 2:57:02am Nickname: Full Name: ROBERT SOUTHARD Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTO2 Arrival Date: NOV 1990 Depart Date: NOV 1991 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR DS Email Address: bucs123456789@yahoo.com City_State: Highlights of your tour/Comments: Shutting down the USS Lasalle and standing up COMUSNAVCENT, working out of MATSON trailers for months and sleeping on cots... Wednesday 06/01/2005 3:22:22pm Nickname: Full Name: George Hagerty Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: LT Arrival Date: Mar 81 Depart Date: Apr 82 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR - Direct Support Element Email Address: ghagerty@baybroadband.net City_State: Rock Hall, MD Highlights of your tour/Comments: To work with some of the finest enlisted men on five DD's/FF's (Blakely, Pharris, Bigelow, Elmer Montgomery, and Conolly. Wednesday 11/10/2004 10:32:27pm Nickname: Full Name: Alan J. Rouze Jr. Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTA2 Arrival Date: Oct 80 Depart Date: Nov 81 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR Email Address: arouzejr@comcast.net City_State: Highlights of your tour/Comments: Embarked USS LaSalle & USS Coronado. Crossdecking, still have picture of Lasalle and Coronado cruising in Persion Gulf together in 80. Getting Shellback on way to Mombasa, Kenya. The typhoon we went through in the Indian Ocean. Learned why there are foot prints on bulkheads on Navy ships. Our wonderful entrance to Mombasa (running over the guy in his canoe in the river, taking out the merchant cranes on the pier). The ship that moored upwind across the pier from us in Bahrain, filled with dead sheep and goats for Ramadon but had been stuck at sea due to storms. The Suq and ASU (Alcohol Support Unit) and the USO show. A rock band that played B-52's music on the flight deck, moored to the pier. The admiral was, well, impressed. And the non-alcoholic beer we brought on board ship, and how much explaining we had to do to prove it really was non-alcoholic. It was Shlitz. And it was non-alcoholic... still have a can sitting on the shelf over my computer. Monday 10/18/2004 9:43:51am Nickname: Full Name: Jack Pinkerd Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTICM(SS) Arrival Date: 11SEP01 Depart Date: 09AUG02 Unit attached to: NSGA, Bahrain Email Address: nativetexan76@hotmail.com City_State: Lennox, SD Highlights of your tour/Comments: Served as CMC under CDR Boogren. Most rewarding tour during 26-year period. Sailors were great and hard-charging. CO and XO (Lt. Rios) were SUPER! Couldn't have asked for a better command! Wednesday 09/29/2004 3:27:36am Nickname: Greg Full Name: Greg Forstner Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTO1 Arrival Date: April 1993 Depart Date: May 1994 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR/COMUSNAVCENT Email Address: gdforst@comcast.net City_State: Indian Head, MD Highlights of your tour/Comments: I got to meet and shake General Colin Powell's hand! Thursday 05/20/2004 4:28:22pm Nickname: Bruce Full Name: Bruce Plummer Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTOC Arrival Date: Feb 1969 Depart Date: Sep 1970 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR (USS Valcour, AGF-1) Email Address: bruceplummer@cox.net City_State: El Cajon, CA Highlights of your tour/Comments: One of my most challenging, rewarding and interesting tours due to the difficulty in maintaining shipboard communications, as well as the locations I was able to visit like Bombay, Karachi, Mombasa and the Syechelles and the friends I made (primarily from the British contingent). Thursday 05/06/2004 3:41:41pm Nickname: Tony Full Name: Tony Novak Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: Civilian Arrival Date: 1996 & 1997 Depart Date: 1996 & 1998 Unit attached to: FADS Email Address: storesobeat@cinci.rr.com City_State: Mason, Ohio Highlights of your tour/Comments: Just updating my e-mail. Nice place to walk along the seawall and look at the luxury Yachts. Great resturants, especially if you like Chinese and Indian. The Ramada and Holiday Inn have great European food. Tuesday 01/27/2004 9:22:42pm Nickname: Full Name: Louis Samson Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTRCM Arrival Date: Sept 2001 Depart Date: Sept 2003 Unit attached to: Navcent - US Embassy Email Address: lsamson@worldnet.att.net City_State: Clawson Michigan Highlights of your tour/Comments: All the GREAT shipmates I worked with during OEF and OIF Sunday 06/01/2003 3:25:31pm Nickname: Ernie Full Name: Ernest Van Frachen Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTOC Arrival Date: June 1976 Depart Date: June 1977 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR (USS LaSalle) Email Address: ernievf@cox.net City_State: Tulsa, Oklahoma Highlights of your tour/Comments: Previously signed the guest book, but wanted to change my email address. I noticed not too many signed the guest book for Bahrain. Could be nobody wants to admit they were there. Tuesday 05/06/2003 11:44:59am Nickname: Tony Novak Full Name: A. J. Novak Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: USN-RET Arrival Date: Various 1997 Depart Date: Various 1997 Unit attached to: N/A Email Address: t.novak@worldnet.att.net City_State: Mason, Ohio Highlights of your tour/Comments: The garden spot of Middle East. The wife and I toured the Island on weekend trips from Saudi Arabia. Enjoyed the freedom and relaxed atmosphe compared to Saudi. It was fun to watch the Saudi's come over and booze it up and purchase restricted items and head back across the causeway. Except for what has become normal security at the gate, the base was quite well stocked and a fun place to leave outside world behind. Sunday 04/13/2003 11:19:03am Nickname: Greg Full Name: CTO1 Gregory D. Forstner Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTO1 Arrival Date: April 1993 Depart Date: June 1994 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR/COMUSNAVCENT Email Address: gdforst@acninc.net City_State: San Diego, CA Highlights of your tour/Comments: Stood COMIDEASTFOR up as COMUSNAVCENT and it was hot! Wednesday 03/26/2003 10:31:30am Nickname: Ron Full Name: Ronald Byrd Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTO2 Arrival Date: Jun 71 Depart Date: Jun 72 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR aboard USS Valcour Email Address: byrd@chesapeake.net City_State: Huntingtown, Md Highlights of your tour/Comments: Southern cruises; Seychelles; Mauritius;Mombasa,Ke; Masawa, Ethopia; Bahrain declaring it's independence from the blokes. Sunday 02/16/2003 7:41:11pm Nickname: Ernie Full Name: Ernest Van Frachen Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTOC Arrival Date: June 1976 Depart Date: June 1977 Unit attached to: COMMIDEASFOR (USS La Salle) Email Address: ernievf@myfirstlink.net City_State: Friendswood, TX Highlights of your tour/Comments: Leaving Bahrain to return to States for retirement. Saturday 01/11/2003 12:07:27am Nickname: Don Full Name: Donald W. Perkins Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTR2-CTR1 Arrival Date: APR 81 Depart Date: APR 82 Unit attached to: COMMIDEASTFOR - USS CORONADO Email Address: navychief1@hotmail.com City_State: Angeles City, Philippines (retired CTRC) Highlights of your tour/Comments: USS Coronado was my first sea tour and I received my first Navy Acheivement medal. Monday 09/16/2002 8:41:00pm Nickname: Jim Full Name: Jim Reynolds Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTO1(NAC) Arrival Date: Nov 91 Depart Date: Dec 92 Unit attached to: COMUSNAVCENT/CMEF Email Address: jim@ditdah.net City_State: Pensacola FL Highlights of your tour/Comments: Rewarding, but long hard tour as Comm Chief/LPO covering both Shipboard & ASU SPINTCOMM communications. Friday 08/23/2002 9:47:20am Nickname: Full Name: Matt Gebhart Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTR3-CTR2(SW) Arrival Date: Sep 93 Depart Date: Oct 94 Unit attached to: COMNAVSECGRU DirSup Email Address: mgebhar@mindspring.com City_State: Forked River_New Jersey Highlights of your tour/Comments: Thursday 08/22/2002 11:04:33am Nickname: Wild Bill Full Name: Bill Hazel Rank(s)/Rate(s) while in Bahrain: CTR1 Arrival Date: 6/81 Depart Date: 7/82 Unit attached to: COMIDEASTFOR STAFF Email Address: whazel@adelphia.net City_State: Stafford, Virginia Highlights of your tour/Comments: Day I departed the "Beast" of the Middle "East". USS Coronado.