Photos last updated: 24 JUN 98.

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reunion Ken Franks held a super reunion in May 1998 at his place for 1960's VQ-2'ers. Here's a group shot. Photo compliments of Dan "Savvy" Savicki. (Posted 01 JUL 98)
reunion_id Her's an identification shot for the previous reunion photo. Photo compliments of Dan "Savvy" Savicki. (Posted 01 JUL 98)
Mondos "Einstein" and crew at El Mondos, for all you VQ-2 types.... Photo compliments of Jim "Wooky" Worley. (Posted 24 JUN 98)
Party1 Well, it WAS a party to welcome LT Paul Simmons on an NRL deployment passing through Monterey, but Paul never showed. But the Naval Postgraduate School Gang still gathered at the Trupp house for a dinner party in FEB 98. Photo compliments of LCDR John "Thai-Man" Harber. (Posted 10 MAR 98)
Party2 OK, it's the big Baby-Switch at the Trupp house. Photo compliments of LCDR John "Thai-Man" Harber. (Posted 10 MAR 98)
laughing AMHC John "Wild Man" Herndon and Mark "Swish" Swisher share a joke under an EA-3B. (Posted 09 MAR 98)
Lerch LCDR Mike "Lerch" Moreno playing along with Axel Rose in casual attire. (Posted 04 FEB 98)
Zen CDR Bill "Zen" Schmidlin consorts with a member of "The Empire" at a VQ-2 Dining out in 1994. (Posted 04 FEB 98)
det_alfa Det Alfa, USS Enterprise, 1984. (Posted NOV 97)
det_alfa AME1 (Ret) Ray "Loxman" Duvall during Det Cubi Point, PI, ~1983. (Posted NOV 97)
vq_crews Another Swisher-photo, here we have some 1983 Whalers:1983 Whalers. Top to Bottom, Right to Left:Don East, Jim Westfall, Scott Thompson, Paul Kitchen, Rudy Morales, LT.Robles---AT3 ???, LT. "ConJob", Pilot LCDR ???---LT. Barry "Whale Pup", Mark Swisher, Shaky Shide and Crew Chief. (Posted AUG 97)
wraith Back in the days of the Whales, everybody got into the plane-washing fun (especially when the "shops" contributed to these events to support squadron social activites). Here's CDR Tom "Wraith" Brennan (then a LT) doing his part.
swank CAPT (Sel) Richard "Swank" Schwenk (then LT Scwenk) loves polishing his Whale---when the AE Shop "pays"---as well.
curry Just another fine Hania day of being incredibly cool for Tim "Turtlehead" Curry and Troy "BT" Nichols.
ford Ah yes, it's a long train ride to the Madrid KISS concert for Joe "Betty" Ford and Rob "The Cuban" Atha.
wedding John "Thai-Man" Harber and Mike "Cars-Dog" Carsley adjust Mike "Kid" Wesson's bowtie as he ties the knot with longtime Spanish girlfriend Mila. Another bachelor is lost....
iwo_rota And what Photo Page would be complete without a silly band of gomers from the VQ-2 Wardroom posing like the famous statue commemorating the Battle for Iwo Jima?
harber Yes, LCDR John "Thai-Man"Harber was an AWESOME Mr. Vice at the 1996 formal VQ-2 dinner....

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