[WVKayaker]

My father was a yeoman stationed at FTG in Gitmo in 1962. My mother, sister and I were evacuated on the USNS Upshur. My dad was on the docks watching us sail into the sun. We left sub-tropical and got to Norfolk welcomed by rain and cold. Our biggest challenge is that we had no coats or cold weather wear. I was a teenage sailing instructor at the time, and knew many of the Marines. Great bread from the Marine cooks! Great stories from the guys. Great memories of spearfishing for grouper among the corals. Now, we have a President who is a Democrat, as well. What a contrast!

[WVKayaker]

Semper fi from a Navy guy!

[BuffaloJack]

I remember the day very well. I’d just gotten out of boot camp and gotten an assignement to a destroyer out of the Philadelphia Naval Yards. I reported aboard in the morning and we got underweigh for the coast of Cuba in the afternoon.

[RaceBannon]

Some things about this story dont sound right, though

He called the deployed 11th Marines from a MEB. Back then, it was a MAB, and why on Earth would it come from the Pacific when Camp Lejuene was right up the road?

Bad memories? I trust the magazine it was writte in but if I heard this on the street said this way, I’d call a poser alert!

[reaganator]

President Kennedy’s show of weakness while debating Krushev and the Bay of Pigs disaster prompted the Soviets to be bolder and build missle bases in Cuba.

The liberals that write the history books show Kennedy as a hero instead of his shown weakness being the cause. This often happens, liberal history teaches FDR’s policies led the nation out of the great depression which lasted 11 years right up to WW II war production, liberal history teaches Reagan’s economic policies only benefited the wealthy, liberal history teaches Clinton was impeached over a sexual matter.

To resolve the Cuban Missle crisis Kennedy caved in and made great concessions to the Soviets such as removing missles from Turkey.

Why is the USA having missles in Turkey different than the Soviets having missles in Cuba? It’s simple, though liberals would quickly disagree, Americans are the good guys.

[Right Wing Assault]

I was in high school and Kennedy drove by our school on his way to a speaking engagement. He cut the visit short due to a “bad cold” and went back to DC. The “cold” was Cuban missiles.

[NTHockey]

I was with VMF(AW)-122 at Beaufort, SC when the mobilzation was ordered. I came back from a weekend pass to find the whole base lit up like high noon. That was Monday at 0400. I got to sleep 42 hours later, staying behind to coordinate avionics spare parts inventory and resupply. In the meantime, anything that wasn’t a part of the buildings went out on R4Qs(Flying Boxcars), R4Ds(DC-3) and R5Ds.

The squadron had gotten brand new F8U-2NEs in August and was scheduled for a shakedown mission to Rota, Spain when the manure hit the ventilators. Those brand new planes came back from Key West with holes; blackened gun ports and greased rocket racks. When we asked how come, the answer was “photographic missions”. Right!

I was discharged on schedule on 31 December 1962.