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The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Fresno (LST 1182). 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 363 crew members registered for the USS Fresno (LST 1182).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1970 | 1971 – 1973 | 1974 – 1976 | 1977 – 1980 | 1981 – 1984 | 1985 – 1987 | 1988 – 1990 | 1991 – now
Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
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Herrell, Jimmie | bw | 1977 – 1980 | 1st deck | it was fun at times im still kickin but 100% disabled |
Catledge, Craig | BM-3 | 1977 – 1979 | Deck | Hey Abernathy ,what's going on ? You still out their brother? Still humpin the man over board dummy?cats4sail@aol.comp |
Scott, Richard | YN3 | Jan 5, 1977 – Nov 7, 1980 | Exec | |
Scott, Richard | YNSN | Jan 5, 1977 – Sep 30, 1979 | Exec | |
Manansala, Emmanuel/manny | EN3/ENFN | Jan 7, 1977 – Oct 27, 1980 | M | HELLO ALL YOU M*****F*****'S, IT WAS ONE HELL OF A RIDE FOR ME. BEST MOMENTS WAS OVERSEAS, HANGING OUT WITH ALL THE CRAZY GUYS ON BOARD. WORKING AS A SURGICAL TECH AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE THAT REMEMBERS ME. |
Jones, Rod | LTJG | Feb 1977 – May 1980 | MPA | |
Miller, Timothy | ht3 | Mar 1977 – Mar 18, 1983 | ER04 | i remember fixing alot of crap for alot of damn people and getting stoned with alot of people. I remember having some pretty good times with James Burke, Mark Heffernan, Leo McCully, and alot of other people in the ER04. |
Armstrong, Bobby | ENC | Apr 1977 – Nov 1977 | M | Left soon after #2 ER fire |
Parks, Benny Boy | GMGSA | Apr 7, 1977 – Sep 4, 1980 | 3rd | Smoked Poles from San Diego to Singapore, from Pusan to the P.I.,gave new meaning to the phrase "SEA PUSSY",I was the Top TURD BURGLAR in all of the western pacific Environs.Cheers to everyone. |
Avelar, Frank | SR | May 7, 1977 – Jul 7, 1981 | 1st | served on flexible frez, spent most of my tour on restriction with brockway for hitting the pipe and smoking poles in the troop spaces. was thrown out in 81, am now in the shu in pelican bay. nuff said. |
Webster, Patrick | RM3 | Aug 1977 – Jan 1981 | OC | Great times. Would love to hear from some of you guys. Vince Clark, Mike Milner, Billy Green, Randy Bush, Terry Doolittle, Mark Martin. Westpac '78 and '80 |
Newman, Ron | SH2 | Aug 27, 1977 – Apr 4, 1981 | Supply | Worked in the ship store ,ge-dunk,laundry,and sometimes just didn't work at all... |
Hayes, Cecil (Diesel) | ENFN/EN3 | Oct 1977 – Oct 18, 1981 | ENG | |
Shreck, Ed Aka "Eddie Gein" | EM2 | Oct 6, 1977 – Mar 16, 1981 | ENG | BooYah to you all, did 3 westpacs on that boat, was the ship's designated "catcher" if you get my drift, and caught for many of my shipmates down in the troop spaces, sore just thinking about those years,hope to hear from all you pitchers b |
Dennis, Reed | SA | Dec 1977 – Nov 4, 1981 | First (1) Deck | |
Bass, David | BM2 | 1978 – 1980 | 1st | Kind of miss the days of all the deck mates. Doper Bob, Dirks, mudbone, Allen .hope all are well..Cheers to you all |
Barager, Paul | e3 | 1978 – 1981 | !st Div | Serving on the Fresno is why the Navy is a good place to be from. |
Heffernan, Mark | E4 | Jan 15, 1978 – Jun 15, 1981 | R | Like say hi to all the people I serve with on-board Fresno any of you that know me can you give me a call 402 639 8861 |
Dechow, Michael | BM2 | Mar 1978 – Oct 1980 | Deck | |
Stephens, Robert | EN1(S/W) | Apr 1978 – Dec 1982 | After leaving the ship I went to Navy Recruiting in Tucson Arizona where I was promoted to CPO. I retired in 1988 as NCC (S/W) and now live in Tucson. I am in the phone book, so call me if you want to talk. | |
Stephens, Robert | EN1 (S/W) | Apr 1978 – Dec 1982 | A-Division | |
Suzuki, Cutie | MA2 | Jun 8, 1978 – Jun 1, 1983 | OPS | HAD A GOOD TIME ONBOARD FREZ, BUSTING DOPERS LIKE AVELAR, BROCKWAY AND SCHRECK. THOSE GOOD TIMES ARE IN THE PAST, HOPE TO HEAR FROM ALL FORMER FLEXIBLE FREZ SHIPMATES, BUENO SHALOM Y'ALL. |
Tribelhorn, Ronald | LT | Jul 1978 – Dec 1979 | 1st. LT, Deck Department Head, CDO the day of the engineroom fire. | |
Ronjoin, Kenneth | ENCS | Jul 18, 1978 – Apr 10, 1981 | A & M | Retired and lovin it. |
Chavez, Ben | EN1 | Aug 1978 – Aug 1982 | M-DIV | |
Wood, Gene | E-4/BM3 | Oct 1978 – 1981 | 2nd | Miss the day out at sea arriving into a new port and having to get a beer and do my laundry for we were always out of ships water for laundry, and showers. I cross rated to DS2 afrer I made Bm2. |
Smurawski, Paul | OS3 | Oct 15, 1978 – Oct 15, 1980 | OI | First division on restriction. Does anyone know what happened to SN Baggerly. I guarded his rack after a series of fires. One year later onboard USS Kiska Crossing the Equator; I'm kissing his foot; how unbelievable. |
Secrease, Sherman (Geno) | EN2 | Nov 1978 – Jun 1982 | #2 ER | i remember port/starboard watches the marines that learned to stand engine room watch and a wild time in every port that engineering partied at!! |
Anthony, Joe | LT/LCDR | Dec 1978 – Sep 1980 | Deck Department | Enjoyed my tour with the men of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd divisions. We had all the toys: the four boats, the guns (big & small), bow ramp, flight ops, Amtrak ops, and plenty of sunshine. |
Silva, Dominic | seaman | 1979 – 1981 | unknown | Hello I am Dominic E Silva JR my dad passed away 5 years ago he didnt have a chance to put himself on here if you knew my dad let me know please |
Barrett, Richard/rick | ftg3 | 1979 – 1980 | w2 | |
Cote, Jeff (Jethro) Jeffrey B) (as Wojo Would Call Me (wilde Coyote) Lol | Fn | Jan 1979 – Nov 1982 | R | Best times i ever had was aboard the Ole Fresno,met some really good buds,and 3 wes pacs,wouldnt trade those days for anything! |
Ward, Hosea | ht3 | Apr 18, 1979 – Mar 28, 1983 | eng | had fun on fresno need to get in tuc with some one that was on the freson when we hit that typhoon on west pack in 1980 |
Kyle, Bob | EN2 | May 17, 1979 – Oct 2, 1982 | A | Check out Fresno sight at http://grapevineartglass.net/uss_fresno/ fo reunion information and just to actively talk to old friends. |
Levu, Fotu | BMSN | Jun 8, 1979 – Oct 3, 1982 | 2ND DECK | Was in 2nd division Deck. one night in 79 while I was sleeping, Slim and Tony Jiles along with Gibbs stole $210 from my pants behind my rack, Fing Thiefs, all 3 of them will pay for that later, pretty good time on the Frez for me. |
Rodgers, Jeff | ENFN | Sep 1979 – Feb 1982 | A GANG | FLEXIBLE FREZ HMMM.... LOT OF GOOD AND BAD TIMES THE WORSE WAS WHEN WE HAD A FIREBUG/AKA ARSONIST NAMED SN BAGGERLY WHOM I WOULD HOPE HE LEARNED A LESSON IN PRISON |
Puckett, Boyd | ENFN | Sep 1, 1979 – Mar 20, 1981 | Have long lost contact with old friends and would like to find them again. | |
Marc G., Goober | qm2 | Sep 10, 1979 – Sep 9, 1981 | x | hello squids, GD and a SOB. |
Lee, Mark | LT (JG) | 1980 – 1982 | Deck | I have many fond memories of the "Flexible Fres" and WestPac. |
Germono, Anthony | BT3 | 1980 – 1983 | boiler tech | Had the most fun in my life. 2 west pacs. liberty call. short time. good time. Happy I went through it. |
Orr, Troy | EN1 | 1980 – 1983 | Engineering/ Oilking | |
Steagall, Ben | sa | 1980 – 1981 | deck | was young and dumb wish i would have stayed longer |
Davis, Dennis | smsn | 1980 – 1983 | operations/communications | Does any one that was aboard Fresno from "80"-"83" recall us recovering the remains of a fallen sailor, can we talk about it? |
Burke, James | GMGSN | Jan 10, 1980 – Aug 17, 1981 | 3rd | whats up,must be gettin old and misty eyed,24yrs now gone,i remember heffernan and miller and alot of weeeed!!and MUDBONE from 1st, caught the screw on 1182 |
Brooks, Vincent | BM1 | Feb 1980 – Nov 1983 | Third Division | Great experience during this tour of duty. Some really rough times. Left the ship Nov 80 and went to a sub tender in Guam. Change of command, loading and unloading Marines and their rolling stock/causeways. |
Fox, Greg | EN2 | May 1980 – Dec 1983 | M | |
Fox, Greg | EN2 | May 1980 – Dec 1983 | M | |
Fox, Greg "Hoosier" | EN2 | May 7, 1980 – Dec 20, 1983 | Worked 1ER 3ER 3AUX Made 3.. count-em 3 west-pacs on the Frez..... How lucky can you get!! Where is everybody at? Mike Smith- Wolfgang Schmitt- Gene Secrease- Joe King----------- | |
Follen, John | HM | May 14, 1980 – Jun 14, 1980 | xo's division | |
Smith, Lee | BM SN | Jun 1980 – Apr 1982 | Deck | USS Fresno was intresting. I served under Ens then LT JG Lee * LT CMDR Ustick listed here. I made 2 West Pacs and crossed the equator. Yes I'm a Shell Back! I love this ship. I also recomend http://earth.google.com/ Go to Pear Harbor |
Rangel, Jesse Burro | EN3 | Jun 12, 1980 – Jun 12, 1984 | engineering | had the best time of my life 2 wes pacs met damm good friends awsome good times in the P.I.look me up |
Pike, Harold | MSSN | Jun 30, 1980 – Aug 28, 1983 | Supply | Didn't get along with Zipperheads |
Pike, Harold | E-1 | Jun 30, 1980 – Aug 28, 1983 | ||
Herrera, Frankie | GMG3 | Jul 15, 1980 – Sep 18, 1981 | 3rd | miss the ship n the crew |
Smith, Michael (Smitty) | EN2 | Jul 19, 1980 – Jun 17, 1982 | A Gang/ER3 | 25 years and finally a place to find old shipmates, greetings to all. I will contact you individually from my home. Geno says HI. We are having thanksgiving togather this year. |
Townes, Clifton | EMFN/EM3 | Jul 20, 1980 – Dec 20, 1981 | E | |
Ustick III, Robert W. (Trey) | LT / LCDR | Aug 1980 – Jan 1982 | First Lieutenant | Great ship...Super memories...Joined ship in Guam on cruise...Left in Singapore on next cruise...Acting XO for several months...Now Retired CAPT living in San Diego |
Hicks, Russell | Ships servicemen 3 | Aug 1980 – May 1983 | Supply | Great time and great memories. 2 westpacs and what a blast. started in 2nd. divison and then to supply. |
Wagner, Franz | E4 | Aug 8, 1980 – Aug 24, 1982 | ENGINEERING | |
Mcpherson, James | OS2 | Sep 7, 1980 – Jun 20, 1981 | OI | Hey, you guys are only remembering the good things, and there were some good things/times. Reality was, the ship was odd man out when it came to quality of life. Only the USS Guam had worse conditions. Nope, I remember not in a nice way. |
Sullivan, Jim | BTFN | Oct 26, 1980 – Sep 26, 1983 | B | WORKED IN NO. 2 ENGINE ROOM |
McNees, Michael | BTFN | Oct 26, 1980 – Oct 27, 1983 | EVAPORTORS /FRESH WTR /BOILERS | I HAD GREAT TIME ON THE FRESNO LEARNING A TRADE THAT I WILL NEVER USE ! ALSO SMOKING UP A STORM IN THE STACK IN ENG3/.2AX ! SHELLBACK AND 2 WESTPACS. MEETING PEOPLE WILLING TO MAKE THE WORST SO MUCH BETTER. |
Puzniak, Puzz | EN3 | Dec 1980 – Sep 1984 | M Division | Best time of my life! I see alot of my shipmates here. I still talk to Jesse every once in awhile. If i knew now what i didn't know then i would have stayed in! |
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