Gary Grahn

Navy-Marine Corps MARS

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Started in MARS while stationed in Guantanamo Bay Cuba because it was the only cost effective way of making calls off-island. After transferring to Instructor Duty in San Diego, I was selected to kick off the West Coast area MARS Afloat program as NNN0PPF/NNN0ASE11.  The position had to be handed over with my transfer to Diego Garcia, after which I found myself (and my crew) being serviced by my past west coast affiliates while serving on USS WHIPPLE, home-ported in Pearl Harbor, and making two deployments to the Persian Gulf. I later found myself on USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, home-ported in Norfolk, VA, where I refurbished, reactivated and rewired the MARS station and served as the MARS Officer during deployments.

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