From: garytucker[SMTP:gtucker@povn.com]

Reply To: gtucker@povn.com

Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 10:19 PM

To: Clautice . Bill

Subject: USS Sam Rayburn SSBN 636 Gold

Dear Sir, I got your address from Larry Oiler who is organizing the reunion. I shall never forget you remember, "Lets get the barn painted". I shall never forget how bad we all felt when you had a less than encouraging encounter with Admiral Rickover. It was with true sincerity that I told you after the encounter you were a great inspiration to we in M Division. Admiral Rickover was somewhat crude but I did respect him greatly for getting the Navy into Nuclear Power probably 20 years sooner than without him. I wonder what ever happened to my Khakis I loaned him he was about my size. I have been in contact with many of the old crew including our first Gold Skipper William Williams and Bill Minnahan and Ronald Gunn both were Chiefs in the Commissioning crew. The last time I saw Capt. Williams he was the Skipper on Simon Lake his Exec. Was Frank Murphy who had been Exec on my first Submarine Cusk SS 348, a very fineteam they were. When I left Rayburn I went to two years Shore duty asthe Senior Enlisted Advisor and the Shore Patrol Operations Officer at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Kitsap County Washington. My last four were on USS Halibut Special Project Boat I retired in 1975 with 19-6-10 at 36 years old. I have been out longer than I was in. I did get a callto put the Iowa back into commission but Virginia said I would have to go alone. We were running an auto repair and parts business that would have been hard to leave for two years, but I still felt good to have been asked. The Iowa had the same power plant as my first ship the USS Yorktown CV 10. Please drop me a line I would like to hear from you and hope you will be able to go to the reunion. I do not play the cards as close to the chest anymore.

With Sincere Regards.

MMCM (SS) USN RET. RG Gary Tucker

Subject: RE: USS Sam Rayburn SSBN 636 Gold

Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:30:42 -0400

From: "Clautice . Bill" <BClautice@drc.com

To: "'gtucker@povn.com'" <gtucker@povn.com

Dear Gary...you asked about my career after Rayburn. After tours in Will

Rogers, Dace and George Marshall, I went to SSPO via the 5 month

Program Managers course at the Defense Systems Management College at Ft Belvoir. I ended up with 3 masters degrees (all night school) had 3 superb commands (NOTU at the Cape during all the Trident tests and Trident backfits which were done at the Cape...SWFPAC at SUBASE Bangor and then a tour as Asst Chief of Naval Research at ONR followed by command of the Naval Research Lab in DC with about 5000 people including 2 astronauts and a Nobel Prize winner).

I had two 3 year jobs in industry (Parkway Patriot vice Beltway Bandit) and then 6 years as V.P. of the Dynamics Research Corp in Crystal City (Arlington VA). We bought a great house which we owned for 25 years raising 3 kids there (son & daughter graduated from the Naval Academy and have Masters degrees with the other daughter a school teacher in FL taking after her mother ...Joyce retired after 25 years teaching 2^nd grade.

There is another great story. Responding to an ad in the local paper, she entered the Ms Senior VA Pageant (60 or older...inner beauty....talent...evening gown vice swim suit) and won. That was a free trip to compete in the Nationals in Las Vegas. She won that as well and became Ms Senior America 1999. That meant being sponsored by Merck (relieving Debbie Reynolds as their spokesperson for Osteoporosis urging women over 60 to get bone scans). I carried her bags to many of the State Pageants where she spoke and performed her winning ballet.

We sold the Alexandria home, bought a small "summer home" in Annapolis and are presently playing "snow birds" living in the Cocoa Beach home we bought in 1979 and rented out for 20 years after we left NOTU. Just heard we are expecting our 8^th grandchild. Oldest daughter is still teaching and lives with her family a half hour from us in FL. Second daughter is a Seabee (in zone for CDR in Reserves) and lives with her family in Tampa. Son (LCDR Reserves) still flies for the Navy from Andrews AFB while working in Alexandria where he lives with his family.

I have seen BillMinnahan several times (....his daughter and my daughter with there respective husbands and children are best friends living 3 blocks from each other in FL). I understand Roy Jadwin has passed away. What a great guy and tragedy. I am looking forward to the reunion and will be anxious to catch up on your present whereabouts. Email didn't say where you are. Give my best to Virginia...sounds like she has good judgement.All the best! / Bill

Dear Bill, Very glad to hear from you and that you have had such a successful life. There was no doubt by any I knew on the Rayburn who was right between you and Admiral Rickover. When I got out in 1975 I Came home to the area where I was raised. Virginia and I had bought 80 acres when we were transferred from Rayburn in 1969, we bought 70 later than a 40 acre place. We raised cattle while I was going to Agriculture College (Community). The more education I received the more I realized that running a Cow Calf operation in northern Idaho was a losing proposition so we sold the cattle in 1981. The experience was good for all of us mostly for the kids, it taught some very important values. We started raising Volkswagens, running a repair and parts shop until we retired in 1987.We have sold 40 acres and are now doing some logging then will sell another 80 acre pc. That will leave us with a 70 that will be sold in the next few years. We have been traveling south in the winter to the Yuma area since 1987, with only having to miss a couple of years. We intend to sell our home with some of the acreage and buy a larger more comfortable motor home. We have had quite a time finding some one to take care of our place in the winter when we are gone. We do have animals to feed and worry about someone breaking in. We have been very lucky but know it can not last. We had to come home in Feb. this year due to our friend taking care of the property getting pneumonia. Our boys, that I had given a tour of Rayburn, (keep your hands in your pockets boys and do not touch anything) are both driving long haul trucks, one in North Dakota the other in Yakima Wa. Our daughter and family live in Sandpoint Idaho about 30 miles from us. The relationship your children have with Bill Minnehans children is very interesting we do live in a small world. Ronald Gunn MMC commissioning crew has remarried and has a two and one half-year-old. His wife Geri died a couple years ago, they were divorced at the time. You mentioned Roy Jadwin, I got his # from Larry Oiler. Larry thought he was sick but still alive. I called and talked to Ruth she said Roy had died over a year ago from a brain tumor. I have thought of him many times over the years and had hoped to see him at the reunion. Looking forward to seeing you at the reunion. Have you had any contact with DC Minton the Third? I have not seen his name in any of the reunion information.

Gary Tucker