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USS Constant (MSO 427) Crew List
The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Constant (MSO 427). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website?
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There are 74 crew members registered for the USS Constant (MSO 427).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1972 | 1973 – now
| Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keller, Gordon | SO3 | 1954 – Jun 1956 | operations-CIC and navagation | I put this ship in commission and would like to get in touch with original crew members, especially Troy Cole. |
| Cross, Billy D | SEAMAN | 1955 – 1956 | Boatman | Left Long Beach headed to Japan in January of 1956. Would like to connect with other crew members. |
| Hogge, Eddie | FN, EN3 | May 8, 1955 – Dec 21, 1957 | Engineman Room, Control, Maintenance, | Looking forward to correspondance with those I served with, Still around having fun with thegrandkids and camping around the creek in the Camper. Still Fish, Hunt and Enjoy the water at a place called Lost Creek off the Warrior River. |
| Fitzgerald, William J. Bill (Fitz) | EN 2 | Dec 1955 – May 1958 | Engineering | The only ship that I was assigned to dury my 'Kiddie Cruse', 5/6/ 55 thru 5/6/58. Mostly all good memories. The only shipmate that I have ever contacted is an EM3 by the name of David F Sweener, presently living in So. CA. |
| Vann, Robert | 1956 – 1959 | Mike | EN3 served with other enginmen, Bromfield, Fitzgerald, Apple, Foust. Boilerman Robert Chambers. Dewey Davis just passed away he was a Seaman but we had kept in touch for many years after seperation. We had some great and memorable times. | |
| Plack, Bill | EN3 | 1956 – 1957 | Engineering | Went aboard as an Engineman striker, became Logroom Yeoman for LT Dan Moss, a heck of a good Engineering Officer. Constant had just come back from WestPac so I spent my whole hitch in Long Beach, a good liberty port at the time. |
| Hill, Howard | ENC | 1959 – 1965 | Engine Crew, forward and aft | Left the Constant and went aboard the Endurance in 65. After shore duty in 72, went aboard the Excel from July 72 until November of 72 when an accident forced me out of sweeps.. |
McCarthy, Paul  | Ens/LTJG | Sep 1959 – Jul 1962 | ENG | Engineering Office (Mr Mac) |
| Hedgecoth, James | 1960 – | |||
| Dyer, Nelson | ETR-3 | Sep 1961 – Sep 1963 | Operations | Radar and radio maintenance. Westpac cruise in 1962. |
| Senior, John | SEAMAN | 1963 – 1965 | ? | |
| McCormick, James | E4 EM | 1963 – 1966 | electrician | |
| Eaton, Charles T. (Chuck) | RM3 | Jan 1963 – Mar 1965 | Operations | I retired as an Aviation Storekeeper Chief and "Plank Owner" on the USS Geo. Washington CVN73, but cherrish my time onboard the Constant with such a great crew. |
| Wood, Terry | BM3 | Oct 1963 – Feb 1966 | Deck Hand | |
| Graves, Jay | seaman | Dec 1963 – Aug 1964 | Adlmin/Ships office | Great ship, great crew, great duty. Sorry to see that she was decomissioned and sold for scrap. |
| Blunt, Donald | YN2-YN1 | Apr 1964 – Dec 1969 | Administration | We left for Viet Nam in Jan 1966 and returned in Nov 66. This was a great crew and ship. |
| Tom Sowded, Tom | LTJG | Jul 1, 1964 – May 1, 1967 | ||
| Hill, Opie | E4 | 1965 – | ||
| Doble, Tom | EN-3 | 1965 – 1967 | engineering | |
| Medlock, Michael G. | EM - EM-3 | 1965 – 1967 | Engineering | Caught Constant in the Yards at Fish Harbor, San Pedro. Did a complete West-Pac , 13 months I think, as EM under Chief Barnes. A real eye opener and hard work at times, stood watch on switchboards in FER |
| Davis, Jack / Pills | SM 3 | Nov 10, 1965 – Oct 20, 1967 | GREAT SHIP AND SHIPMATES | |
| Lawrence, Charles (Charlie) | HT2 | Apr 15, 1966 – Apr 15, 1968 | Eng | An experience I would not trade for |
| Pickers, Ron | SM1 | 1967 – 1969 | OPS | THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES,I KNOW IT WAS MINE. SWEEPS WERE GOOD DUTY. WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANY OLD SHIP MATES. CHIEF ROMANO WAS AND IS GREATLY MISSED' |
| Walter, Dave | SN | 1967 – Sep 8, 1968 | First Div | Great ship and crew. Had great time aboard |
| Munsell, Peter | OSCM | Apr 1967 – May 1969 | Operations | |
| Kirk, Taylor | STG3 | 1968 – 1969 | Ops | Lord I did love wespac. Hong Kong, Kaoshung, and of course Subic. It was a great time to be a young single sailor. |
| Hewitt, Ronald | NC1 | 1968 – 1970 | Signalman First Class | I would like to get in touch with Captain Jack Martin and Lloyd Long. |
| Milam, Fred | MSO427 | Jan 6, 1968 – Oct 21, 1970 | ENG | HARD WORK, LITTLE SLEEP. I AM GLAD I SERVED ON THE CONSTANT. |
| Milam, Fred | EM2 | Jan 8, 1968 – Oct 19, 1970 | Engineering | |
| Russell, David | EN2nd | Mar 1968 – Aug 1971 | eng | Being on the constant was a real experience. It was like the other guy said Cheif Ramono did run the ship |
| Grund, James | ET3 | Nov 1, 1968 – Jan 20, 1970 | ops | |
| Gurske, Donn | RADIOMEN 3RD CLASS | 1969 – 1971 | Operations | |
| McClure, James | RM2 | Sep 20, 1969 – Jul 7, 1971 | Operations | |
| McCollum, William | EN2 | Oct 1969 – Mar 1970 | Engineering | I had a great time serving on the Constant. It was my first ship. I was in Vietnam before that and I most remember going out drinking and playing poker a lot. The crewmember I remember was a big Chief Engineman, who's name I dont know. |
| Moffett, Russell | ETN2 | Oct 20, 1970 – Jun 20, 1974 | OPS | Served four years on the Constant and always kept a Constant Strain. Can't forget Chief Romano, he really ran the ship. Great Crew on the 70-71 westpac cruise. To bad we didn't create a cruise book. |
| Moody, Rob | E-3 | 1971 – 1972 | Engineering | |
| Moody, Robert | E-2 when I reported. E-3 when i left. | 1971 – | Engineering | I remember Chief Ramono (not sure of the spelling) well. He was a good man. |
| Lyon, James | SEAMAN | Sep 1971 – Sep 1974 | COMMISARY | |
| Stetzer, Gregg | RM2 | Jun 15, 1972 – Apr 12, 1973 | ||
| Riggert, Terry | ETR3 | Sep 10, 1972 – Dec 29, 1974 | OPS | We almost sunk. Many MSO's suffered the same fate. USS Prestige MSO-465, USS Stalwart MSO-493, USS-Avenge MSO-423, and USS-Force MSO-445 were all lost. Wooden hulled ships were vulnerable. |
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