Stanley Blaskiewicz, a shipmate of mine, boarded Lipan in 1968 as an SA and left in 1971 as a BM3.

	Scaffolding around the A-Frame while in the yards.
	Start the yard work.
	Nice photo of Lipan in the Marine Railway dry-dock in Pearl Harbor Hawaii circa 1970.
	Lipan in dry-dock before getting its hull sandblasted.
	Another dry-dock photo showing Lipan being serviced by one of the huge yard cranes.  Circa 1970.
	The back of the boat in dry-dock.
	Helo probably Vietnam.
	The infamous "Jeepney" transportation vehicles of Olongapo  just outside the Subic Bay base in the Philippines.
	Recognize these clubs in Ologapo?
	Weighing the anchor.
	Pearl Harbor tradition is that ships returning from a lengthy cruise display a welcome-home Lei on their bow.
	Stan on the left tending a line on the 10-ton boom while BM3 Amador runs the controls.  Circa 1970.
	Tow that barge.
	Mates on the forecastle.
	Where's the boat?
	Why didn't I join the Air Force?
	Tourist Stan and a shipmate go for an elephant ride someplace is Southeast Asia.
	BM Bob "Lucky" Carroll, one of the ship's divers, getting some needed rack time.  Bob Carroll could improvise anything out of nothing.  He was THE most innovative guy aboard Lipan.  One time our movie projector failed during a film.  Bob found a gear had stripped and instantly started hand-making a new duplicate one out of a hunk of fiberboard, while others stood around and joked that this time he would never do it.  It worked and the gear lasted long enough to finish the movie before it too quit.
	L to R is Tim Worden, Billy Dale Thompson,  Rich Tetrault BM2 with flute, and Degunia
	L to R front row is Danny Weymouth SN and Morris SN.  Danny broke his arm in the ill-fated LCVP tip-over in Alaska.  In the rear L to R is Pete Guild SN, Wagner our 2nd class cook, and unknown.
	The dreaded beach gear.
	Smoke 'em if you got 'em, Stan.
	Stan in his rack.
	Taking a wave over the bow.
	Hang on.
	Stan on the left with 3rd class cook Rollins.
	L to R is Mike "Ma" Spiegel CS3, Paul Silman SM2, and Rich Tetrault BM2 mugging with somebody.  Dug Hadland FN is at the bottom of the screen.  Unknown who is playing the guitar.  Party was given by Atomic Energy Commission after mission in Aleutian Islands circa 1969.
	Bill "Spaceman" Buckman EM3, Ben "Bean" Fuentes GM3 with Officer's hat on, and Stanley Blasciewicz SN and others at the party
	Now THIS is funny.  That's Bob Brown RM1 with the fishing rod.  Unbeknownst to Bob, his line drifted under the ship and had been snagged by some Snipes who were fishing on the opposite side.  The Snipe gang "played" Bob for a long time before he figured out that it wasn't a "big one" that he had on the end of the line.  Bosun Ray and other look on.
	The fantail loaded down with AEC equipment including a half-track, a Boston Whaler boat, a large sled, etc.  Note the LCVP being towed astern.  The boat was swamped and lost on Semisopochnoi Island.  Circa Spring/Summer 1969.  Circa Spring/Summer 1969.
	Sometimes when we went from island to island it was easier to just drive the LCVP rather than tow it.  Rich Tetrault BM2 at the helm with a few mates.  Note the low hanging cloud.  Fog was common in the Aleutians at this time.  Circa Spring/Summer 1969.
	The Aleutian Islands were littered with war supplies, remnants, and gear leftover from WWII.  Here three guys pose near an old airplane engine on an old airfield someplace in the Aleutians.
	Lipan anchored in the Aleutians.  Photo from LCVP.  Circa Spring/Summer 1969.
	While making a landing on Semisopochnoi Island we broached and then swamped the LCVP and 18 guys were dumped in the ocean and now trapped on the island, one with a broken arm.  After repeated attempts to get us back to Lipan with a rubber raft proved futile, the government located a nearby civilian ship  doing research and it had a helicopter abaord on a makeshift wooden landing platform.  The helo took us to the ship a few at a time and then Lipan came to get us.  Circa Spring/Summer 1969.
	Ben "Bean" Fuentes GM3 lands a huge halibut in the Alaskan Aleutians.  Circa Spring/Summer 1969.
	Soviet intelligence gathering ship shadowing us as we conducted  a mission in the Aleutian Islands for the AEC.  Stan took the picture through binoculars.  Circa Spring/Summer 1969.
	The Aleutians in Spring circa 1969.
	Don't ask me where Stan got them but Lipan must have been on the scene.  Here's 3 photos of the astronauts in quarantine after returning from a mission  in space.
	In those days returning astronauts were placed in quarantine for a time, since it was unknown what they might "catch" while in outer space.
	More of the astronauts.
	USS Arlington, a communication ship, in Midway circa June 1969.  Lipan escorted two harbor tugs there from Pearl Harbor for a meeting between President Nixon and South Vietnam's leader, Thieu.
	The Honor Guard as Air Force One lands with President Nixon.
	Stan as he looked in the Spring of 2009 when he visited Rich Tetrault at his Lowell Massachusetts condo.  He really hadn't changed all that much!  Must have been that good life aboard Lipan that did it for him.
	Rich & Stan pose together again outside Rich's condo in Lowell after almost 40 years