"I grew up in Smithsburg, I am an Eagle Scout and
now I am the Boy Scout
Tuscarora District Training Chair for Mason Dixon Council. I have lived
in Waynesboro since 1994. I have a wife, Dianna, and one son, Benjamin.
I was certified as a YMCA Diver Bronze Star in 1976 at the Hagerstown
YMCA by George Knode. I just turned 13 Years old, at the time I was the
youngest YMCA Diver in Hagerstown. Received my Silver Star just one
year later. I joined the US Navy and went into the Submarine Service
and served aboard the USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN- 636) Blue and Gold
Crews, I was certified as Navy Diver while I was between assignments
with the USS Nathanael Greene Blue crew and Gold Crew. I decommissioned
her and then taught at the Damneck Naval Guided Missile School for 6
years teaching underwater navigation to Enlisted and Prospective
Navigation Officers, Prospective Commanding Officers, and performed
DASO's (Live and simulated missile firings at Cape Canaveral.) I went
to my second boat the USS John Marshall (SSN-611) after my shore duty.
I decommissioned her in Bremerton WA in 1992. I retired from the US
Navy after decommissioning the Marshall. I have over 1000 dives under
my belt, mostly in the Atlantic but, some in the Med. I stopped diving
after retiring and I did not dive again until my son wanted to learn to
dive in 2007.
Now I am back in the only place to be, underwater! I would rather be
there than anywhere else. You never stop seeing something new. Diving
is the most fun there is on this planet!"
Doug
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