BTW ... only (mostly) kidding about the Air Scouts. I spent 9 years, 5 months, and 22 days in (what was then) the world's 2nd largest nuclear navy, and was never on board a U.S. ship. Having asked the Navy for any ship in San Diego, California (there were one or two there), I was sent to the Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine. Did have 800+ flight hours, though.
Well, my experience was, um, more than a week ago, but that's the way I remember it too. Stateside, the barracks we lived in was an old open-bay "converted" to two-man "rooms" with old office cubicle dividers. In Bermuda we stayed in barracks that hadn't really been modified much since the Brits gabve us the base as part of Lend-Lease. The Air Force base we detached to in the Azores had rooms far nicer than the one I had in the very new dormitory at the University of Missouri.
I can only imagine what it was like in Torone's day ... I'm pretty sure he said he served with LT(jg) J. P. Jones
