Thank You Chef Randy

[debk]

Would someone please send me a ticket so I can get there for lunch?

All the Girlie Girls would love to join you!

[Chef Randy]

Would someone please send me a ticket so I can get there for lunch?

All the Girlie Girls would love to join you!

Would love to have the Girlie Girls join us for lunch, don't think that I could swing the tickets to get you out here though 

[Salty68]

Hey Coasties, did anyone ever meet cooks, Faolatanga Faatautau, Aniva Lae, or Chin? How about stewards, Feria or Alojapan?

[JerryM]

There was a Laea (sp?) on Eastwind who was, I believe, a hereditary Chief in the area of Pago Pago, Samoa and a slumlord in Boston.

fix a typo

[Salty68]

There was a Laea (sp?) on Eastwind who was, I believe, a hereditary Chief in the area of Paga Pago, Samoa and a slumlord in Boston.

Gosh Mate, that's him!!! .....We were at Sand Island together when I was on the Blackhaw, but I can't remember if he was on the Chataqua, Wennebago or the Kukui...On the first week of Dec 1960, I got off at Subic Bay heading for a Loran Station. Six months later he got shipped to the same LORSTA I was on, USCG LORSTA Talampulan, Busanga, Philippines. We spent 6 months together there.....YEP!....Him and Faolatanga are Samoans. I have pictures of a ships party in Faolatanga's home town in Samoa...............Thanks for the info Mate!!!

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Post the pics, they sound interesting!

Did you ever run across another Samoan named John Lulamonga?  I met him in Honolulu when he was on the Kukui about '69.

[JerryM]

OK Stan, now that you mention Kukui, did you know ENC John Thompson who wanted to homestead Kukui? I was in the Chiefs' quarters of Chincoteague with John (actually, we generally called him "Fat" Thompson. When I stopped off at Hono with Sherman in '70, he was back on Kukui & I saw him there.

[Salty68]

Post the pics, they sound interesting!

Did you ever run across another Samoan named John Lulamonga?  I met him in Honolulu when he was on the Kukui about '69.

Faolatanga and Laea had a friend that use to sit on the dock and BS for hours....that might be him.....

There was a Felipino steward on the KUK that was a friend , but if you threaten to killed me, I can't remember his name....I knew him on the KUK in sand Island and when I was at the Loran station he brought me a 5HP Briggs horozontal shaft for my Bunka.... If you look at one of those pictures I post of Talampulan, you will see my bunka in the upper right corner....

[BuoyJumper]

Post the pics, they sound interesting!

Did you ever run across another Samoan named John Lulamonga?  I met him in Honolulu when he was on the Kukui about '69.

Speaking of Samoans, the very best BM1 I ever had or came across during my tenure was BM1 Dennis Thompson. 
Anybody ever run across Tommie as he was called?  He came to the CG from the Navy just having won the USN's White Hat Of The Year Award the year before he came into the Coast Guard.

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Jerry, John Thompson doesn't ring a bell.

Salty, John Lulamonga was your typical Samoan.  Great big barrel chest.  His legs looked tiny in comparison.  Really nice guy......right up until he would have one drink to many. 

Buoy,

A Samoan named Thompson?  Now THAT'S interesting!   

[vftb]

Speaking of Samoans,

RM2 Muliufi, one of the funniest people you'll meet.    Muliufi

Really nice guy......right up until he would have one drink to many. 

You have no idea 

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You have no idea   

Oh, I probably do.  I had the misfortune if being in Club 14 one night when Lulamonga decided he needed more to drink and the poor *******s pulling Shore Patrol tried to get him to leave.   

Did I mention John was incredibly strong?   

[EX-CG-GM]

OK Stan, now that you mention Kukui, did you know ENC John Thompson who wanted to homestead Kukui? I was in the Chiefs' quarters of Chincoteague with John (actually, we generally called him "Fat" Thompson. When I stopped off at Hono with Sherman in '70, he was back on Kukui & I saw him there.

Jerry,

I didn't connect the name before, but I was just looking through my Mellon Cruise Book and there was an ENCS John Thompson that made the Nam deployment.

And the pic looks like maybe someone could have nicknamed him "Fat".   

[CGRDCS]

Big John Lulamonga  Best damn boat driver, I ever saw.

Was with me on Storis, 67-68, as BM2.    John DID NOT LIKE Squids, SP's or Marines.

EM and Acey / Duecy club were on top of a hill at Kodiak.  John had a interservice discussion with some squids and was asked to leave,  which he did, under full steam (Wink, wink).  Sadly, as he left the club, so the story goes, he stopped to answer nature's call, behind the club, and fell down the hill.

To the base of a barracks.  The one the squids and marines shared.   He enters through the fire exit, and proceeds to hold reveille, by the time honored way of overturning racks, completely through the barracks, one end to the other.

he then proceeds, down the road to the ship.

John was a gentle man, but you did not dare him to do anything.  On board Storis, we had a QM by the of Favel, who was a smart Ass.  (Something in the rating practical factors.   Right V?)  Well, John is sitting on the messdeck drinking a cup of coffee, and Favel starts.   "John , you don't have a hair on your A** to piss on the coffee pot. 
I do to , I show you" and proceeds to climb on the counter, flips back the top and lets flow, for about 5 min.  ( Guess the earlier nature's call got interrputed), climbed back down, sat down and finished his coffee and hit the rack.

Several of us that were on the mess deck, had decided that should the OOD come through we had better be in a different place, had left.

NO ONE told the messcooks, the next morning, what had happened.  The messcooks, just dumped the grounds, and because the sight glass was empty, just made a new pot.  Until the crew got up.  No, the messcooks had not cleaned the pot,  just made a new one.  No one in the crew drank and coffee, thru morning chow, only the officer's the CPO's and the CO.

After morning chow, the Chief CS, congratulate the messcook, on the best pot of coffee he had had in 27 years.   The CO's stewart, drew two stainless pitcher's of the coffee to the cabin.

John, didn't say a word.  The crew didn't say a word.   The Chief CS, didn't know the reason why the crew drank so much milk that day.  TIL Morning Coffee break.
Somebody dropped a dime.

By 1300 hrs.  John had been to mast, and was going to spend a few days with the Marines.  The cafeteria's style coffee pot, had been surveyed and had been removed from the messdeck and was laying on the dock.  The wardroom and CPO Mess had both received seperate coffee makers, as did the Cabin.  The crew drank from several Mr. Coffee's for a period of time later.

Ah!  life was good in Alaska!!!!!!.

Hawk

[EX-CG-GM]

Was with me on Stories, 67-68, as BM2.    John DID NOT LIKE SP's or Marines.

I don't know about the marines, but he sure as hell wasn't fond of SP's.  Every night somone  9or maybe a couple guys) would be assigned SP duty at Club 14.  I think it rotated from ship to ship.

So one night I have SP duty and John is there, drunk as a skunk.  And I am told to remove him.  Uh-huh.  I weighed about 145 lbs.  Thing is, I had met John and we had had a few beers together at the club previously.  Didn't matter though, 'cuz now I was wearing that damn SP brassard.

I see another couple Kukui guys there and they know that John will get into deep **** if he gets in a fight.  So I take off my SP gear, we walk up to John and suggest that all of us go into town forr a few drinks and food.

John drunkenly thinks that's a swell idea, so he and the two Kukui guys walk out, I put my SP gear back on and all is well with the world.