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Interesting site Chief. My Dad served on the USS Braine DD630 in the South Pacific during WW2 and retired a Master Chief Petty Officer. He's still kicken' at age 84. I keep in touch with one of his WW2 shipmates but I would like to be able to find his other buddies too. Maybe this site will help, thanks.

http://www.ussbrainedd630.com/


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It keeps asking for my ROC rate. I was a AMM3/c. It has no listing for a radioman/gunner. I don't understand all the new fangled rates. They don't mean anything. An Aviation Machinist Mate was what it said it was. No T-6 or E-3 nonsense. How do you get by that impasse? Maybe they don't let WWII types in.
 
HellDiver, in modern terminology a Aviation Machinist Mate is a AD. AMM3/c translates to AD3 now. When I joined the Navy in 1974 we had ADJ and ADR when the rating was split into jet and reciprocating engines. Back in WWII my rating would have been Machinist Mate Motor Auxillary (MMA). In 1949 that was changed to Engineman (EN). A few years ago, they made more major changes to the rating structure combining a bunch and disestablishing others.

NC, I joined that site a couple of years ago, but somehow got my username and password all mucked up to where I can't seem to log on anymore. But I did manage get in contact with several old shipmates. Including a couple that I couldn't stand to be near back in the day :costumes:
 
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