2009  F.O.UWSS Reunion  FL
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other old pictures of years past
                                                                     photos courtesy of Gerry Flowers & Erasmo Riojas

Linda Hubbell; click on photo to see her pictures

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Older UWSS webpage

                                
AD Clark and Doc Riojas

passing of Morris Lee Barber, 91, of Severna Park, Maryland, on 27 December 2016. 
It is sad to report the passing of our Shipmate Morris "Lee" Barber 
Lee served as a member of UDT-11, UDT-3, UDT-1, UDT-12, and eventually as a UDT and Underwater Swimmer School Instructor. Lee Barber was awarded a Purple Heart with Valor and a Presidential Unit Citation for duties performed during the Battle of Balikpanpan, Borneo during WWII

Memories of the Past from the BUddyLine

John Sedlak

Lt. Hennigen   Lt. Furruggiaro

  
Harold Navy SEAL and DV1

UWSS Divers

UWSS Staff that closed the School

George Webber ('69)  Air Force Para-Rescue  graduated UWSS

Gerry Flowers 

From:  Gerry Flowers
To:     Erasmo "Doc" Riojas
SUBJ:   Imagine Marine Corps Boot Camp with the last name of Flowers and being Canadian.

Doc,    They told me from the get go that I would never make it through because I was a pussy from Canada with a pussy last name and they were going to be happy to throw me off the Island. Parris Island. 

I was not allowed to send my clothes home like everyone else and the three Drill instructors had me leave my civvies in the mailing box (everyone else mailed home?) and they drew me a map of how to get off P.I. with a right turn and directions to the bus station. Each D.I. ponied up five bucks each and put it in the envelope with the directions. 

First Photo: 
Did you know this about me....this surprised the shit out of me when it was announced in the squad bay and it was also the proudest day of my life on the Grinder at graduation when they announced that the Series Honor Man, was From Toronto, Ontario Canada. Doc, I got a standing ovation from all those in the crowd watching. Parents, brothers, sisters of all the Marines and no one from my family from Canada. Doc, I was one proud MOFO. That is where I found the "Never Quit Gene" was in my DNA. 

Miss you doc, and hopefully ...... talk to you soon... 
Your friends...........Gerry and Terry.

Doc Rio's Reply:  We miss you also.  Perhaps in 2017, If we are still above ground, Lil Rio and I will fly up to Washington State and you can pick us up at the airport and take us to Vancouver?

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                                      Jerry Hammerle,     ?        ,  A.D. Clark,  Dante Stephensen

Bob Holmes at VA getting treated for Lymphoma of the throat  OCT 2014

UWSS , when it first was commissioned

Kappesser, Hazelwood, and Stone

UWSS Key West FL     and    the Boat House with LCPLs

Crowell and Pappi Huett   and Bob Shouse                                      UWSS instructor staff , Lt. to Rt.: Shelby Jones, Joe , Bob Shouse, Doc Mc Laughlin,  ??, Provasnick, ??, Dow Byers,  ??,  ??

Lee Barber                UWSS instructors of years ago,   Note Bob SHouse, 3d from left, he was a white hat

Dow Byers built the Shark,  Ernic Caltenbach was the model for the diver

UWSS "U" Boat used for open sea dives at the 12 mile Reef Key West FL.

Robert Bornmann
via docrio45  [at] gmail  DOT com 

to NmccJeanaAquad., NMCharlie, NMJim, NMJan, NMAndré In the summer of 1954 Charles Aquadro and two other graduates, Eugene Mayberry and Henry Long, of the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis were ordered to Navy duty under instruction at the Naval School, Deep Sea Divers, in the Washington DC Navy Yard. Although contemporaries and acquaintances they were not , because of the Tennessee practice of running classes on a quarter system, strictly classmates. At DSDS their mentor and intructor was Ed Lanphier from the Navy Experimental Diving Unit. Assignments after training were: Aquadro to Underwater Demolition Unit One in San Diego [comprised of UDT-11, -12 and -13], Mayberry to UDT-21 in Norfolk, and Long to the Salvage School in Bayonne NJ. 

After his tour of Navy service Henry Long went into private practice in Tennessee. Eugene Mayberry entered a residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic and stayed on there afterwards, rising to CEO of the Clinic before his retirement a few years ago. Charlie Aquadro went on to a varied career in the Navy, then worked with Jacques Cousteau in Monaco, and with TAP Pryor in Honolulu before entering private practice in North Carolina. Charlie always viewed Lanphier as his mentor. He tele-phoned regularly to discuss diving subjects and problems. Whenever Aquadro was in DC or later Buffalo he would drop by Ed's lab to continue these conversations face-to-face. 

Ed Lanphier was the perfect guide for these young JGs. His knowledge of the field of undersea medicine was extensive, his energy and enthusiasm were infectious, and the three were for him a training field for the Manual on SCUBA medicine that he was working on - which was ultimately published as part of the Navy Diving Manual. In every phase of his career Ed Lanphier's intelligence and drive made him stand out. This was true of his early training at the Loyola University college of medicine, his fellowship at Penn, his work while on active duty in the Navy, his years at SUNY Buffalo school of medicine; and that part of his career after he trained for the priest-hood in the Episcopal Church and became professor at the University of Wisconsin. [He told me once that upon entering his seminary he felt, after wandering for many years, that he had at last come back home.] 

Ed's name, Lanphier, was not French, as I had originally surmised, but Welsh. It comes from a long Welsh place name which begins LLANFAIR, and refers to the Church of St Mary there. In my church hymnal is an Easter song set to an old Welsh melody entitled "Llanfair". The words begin, "Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!" Ed died in 1999 in Madison WI, and those words express well, I think, how Ed felt about his life. 

Robert C Bornmann

                                                   Gaudeamus Igitur
                                                                     (trans. R. Masciantonio) 

                                                         
                                                                                              David PaAaina

Erasmo "Doc" Riojas his daugher: Sylvia D. Riojas-Vaughn and Paul Vaughn

Gerry Flowers says Whataburger is a great burger;  Doc Rio agrees!

Fraternal Order of the UnderWater Swimmer School

(UWSS) Key West FL

The Fraternal Order of the UWSS Key West FL is open for membership to all its students, staff, and those who are recommended by a voting member to become an associate member. We meet every two years at a different USA site. First reunion set up by "Pappy" Hewitt ( who has disappeared from our planet ) & MCPO Driscoll at Key West FL . The Second reunion was at Panama Beach FL. A. Dee Clark, our secretary - treasurer is awaiting your suggestions for the third reunion in 2002.  

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LCDR  LINDA HUBBELL (D.V.O.) LCDR, USNR: the best looking SCUBA diver in the USN.

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WILLIAM C. COPELAND Born 05/07/1929 RED OAK, IA Rank LIC (DV) Service Dates 05/1946 - 12/1968 Service Branch USN

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BERNARD WESLEY DIGGS JR. Born 04/01/1928 MATHEWS, VA Rank LCDR Service Dates 05/1946 - 07/1976 Service Branch USN

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RYAN J. McCOMBIE Born ELKTON, SD Rank CAPT (SEAL) Service Dates Service Branch US Navy

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EARL CLIFTON PRICE Born 04/25/1922 SAMPSON COUNTY, NC Rank LCDR Service Dates 05/1940 - 08/1970 Service Branch U. S. Navy

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DONALD STONE Born 05/30/1930 PHILADELPHIA, PA Rank HMCS (SEAL) Service Dates 04/1951 - 08/1970 Service Branch USN

 

 

 

John H. SMITH Rate : LT (EOD) Service Dates Service Branch US Navy

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Ty ZELLERS Penna? Rank BMCM(SEAL) Service Dates 1943 to 19 75 Service Branch US Navy

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The Fraternal Order of the UWSS Key West FL.

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"Andy" Anderson, Vice President FO UWSS Key West FL

A. Dee Clark, Sec-Treas F.O. UWSS Key West FL

Steve "DOC" Miller;  He relieved Erasmo DOC Riojas at UWSS in 1966.

Steve Waterman

Ev Barrett

Erasmo "Doc" Riojas and Jerry "Indian" Sweezy

"Nasty" Nash

David "Big Bird" Hyde

Robert DOC Clark

My Friend Alex Verduzco

John Francis Rabbitt,  UWSS instructor

Gene Cahill,  UWSS Instructor

Jim Hazelwood, UWSS instructor

Julio Ramos  ST-2

Issac"Ike" Rodriguez TM2 (SEAL) KIA at the Panama "Fiasco" He rests at the Nat.Cemetery Houston TX. Section J Grave 747.

Gunner "Woody" Woodard UWSS instructor

 Claude E. Manley's (EOD) Class

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