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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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The subject tells it all. Sorry to see it go but he's right. Very few posts, I'm as guilty as anyone, and membership dropped considerably. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I haven't posted there for years but I'm sorry to see its demise. The people have probably gone where most of the folks who use to post here have gone. Sad.
Rest in peace Ron's BBS!!! |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Hate to see it fold also.
The new, young nuke boat sailors don't have the same adhesion as us older folks. You can see it also at USSVI meetings. It is also happening here. The variety of posters isn't what it was because Shipmates are departing on Eternal Patrol and no new "blood" comes in to fill the slots.
IMHO the entire Navy sure ain't what it use to be. I'm glad I served when I did and I imagine that todays Navy is glad too. 
Edited by Ralph Luther 2018-12-04 6:09 PM
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 560
Location: Minot, Maine | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I was a moderator there for years, and suddenly it changed servers. A new moderator said I was a racist so I never posted again. Bill Patterson had died, and that was it. Call me Simon Legree....
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 932
Location: Milford, PA | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I agree, Ralph … I'm very happy that I was in before the pussification. I'm also certain the Navy is pleased because I am too much of a rebel to have fit the current mold (whatever the hell that is).
Back in the day I was a good Sub Sailor. I wouldn't be today.
Edited by Bob Mahon 2018-12-04 9:23 PM
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3666
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
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Admin
Posts: 2294
Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I don't see a reason to shut it down just the same. There are only a handful of folks that do the majority of the posts here - but I still think it is worth it.
I don't care much for Facebook but I do go on to check on the kids/grandkids and I do enjoy the private group there for my old boat.
Change is inevitable - who says the "new stuff" can't be just as good when we look back on it in ten or twenty (assuming a few of us will last that long LOL). |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I agree with you Don. I hope you realize I wasn't looking for a shutdown.
Yes, change is good as long as it's for the better. What I meant, in my previous post, was that the new submarine force, for the most part, just isn't interested in the old submarine force. The DB sailors are a dying breed. They don't crank out any more of us and the crew dedication just doesn't show in the nukes. |
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Senior Crew
Posts: 130
Location: Kennewick, Washington | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
My cousin's page may not actually shutdown and may just come under new leadership. If you are interested in seeing it stick around, go to Ron's page and vote for a number of available options. If you log in you can use the voting buttons, but you can also just post you preference in a post. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Thanks Dan!!
Just tried to get on and didn't work. Oh well!!
Edited by Ralph Luther 2018-12-05 2:20 PM
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Plankowner
Posts: 5024
Location: Gulfport, MS | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I haven't posted there since the day he had another hair across his butt about something he didn't agree with and told us he didn't care if we all left the BB (except for Jim C) … so I did. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1262
Location: Va.Beach,Va. | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I'm witchu Ralph,I haven't been an active poster here or there in a while but I stop in every day to see what y'all are up to.
As i tell folks "My "notorious" submarine career is often misquoted and ,most of the time,greatly exaggerated" but I like hanging out with you old pharts.  |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1262
Location: Va.Beach,Va. | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I went over the,voted for the #1 option,and read the remarks. It appears our old friend Mikey is the only one who will be glad to see it go.  |
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Admin
Posts: 2294
Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Ralph - I was just referring to change in platform for communication. The Navy of today is a different story. Like most here, I'm glad I served in a time where a hard-working sailor could hit the beach and have a little fun !! |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 715
Location: Conway, NH | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
MAD DOG - 2018-12-05 8:17 PM
I went over the,voted for the #1 option,and read the remarks. It appears our old friend Mikey is the only one who will be glad to see it go.
How is what I said about the poll gods equate to your belief that I will be glad to see that board shut down? |
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Admin
Posts: 2294
Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Dan, I'd like to see it stay going for the sake of variety and in appreciation of its long endurance. Ron seems to always have had someone else do the heavy lifting anyway so I can't see that it is a burden of any significance. The cost of running one is minimal. Keep it and continue to let someone run it for him I say.
If he doesn't want that then hand it off to someone else and change the name. I'd propose "The Myron Howard Memorial Submarine BBS" given all the work Myron did for so long and with so little recognition. Just sayin'...
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2671
Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Don Gentry - 2018-12-05 9:01 PMDan, I'd like to see it stay going for the sake of variety and in appreciation of its long endurance. Ron seems to always have had someone else do the heavy lifting anyway so I can't see that it is a burden of any significance. The cost of running one is minimal. Keep it and continue to let someone run it for him I say.
If he doesn't want that then hand it off to someone else and change the name. I'd propose "The Myron Howard Memorial Submarine BBS" given all the work Myron did for so long and with so little recognition. Just sayin'...
That's one of the options I voted for Don. But the Myron Howard Memorial BBS is genius.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1266
Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Been hanging there a LONG time, back when Hot Rod & Martini were the only pages I could find.
Sorry to see it go, but I'm guilty for not spending more time there. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I know. At first all I could find was Hot Rod and CAUSS. I posted some on Hot Rods page but ended up joining CAUSS. Later I found the Rontini page. Hot Rod is gone, CAUSS is gone, now it looks like this one may be going too. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3666
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Seems Rontini is reconsidering
Edited by GaryKC 2018-12-06 9:19 PM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1266
Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
I was a CAUSS member as well.
Bob Merrigan, or was it Jim Merrigan had been USSVI National Commander.
Edited by PaulR 2018-12-07 12:19 PM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1602
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As long as Brian keeps the Pig Pen about four of his members will survive. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Don Merrigan. When Don closed down his "Subnet.com" I finally convinced him to let me have his files and photos and html.
I've been slowly working on it but it is a huge job. One of the things I wanted to do was revise the DANFS text that went with it so it was actually readable and have full dates for movements and war patrols. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1266
Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Thanks Ric, "DON" Merrigan.
I was happy with "Jim" though. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Ron's BBS Shutting down on 12/7
Don ran a small printing company called Marblehead Press. Not sure what else he published but he did print both copies of Jim Chrisley's "United States Submarine Force Infornation Book-1995" and the vastly expanded version II of the book in 2000. Both which I have used to death. Both copies finally began fallin apart. I had to finally take them apart and put the pages in page sleeves and then in binders. Some times doing research I use them a dozen or two times a day.
If Don is still with us he would be well into his 80's. He shut everything down after trying to move his mother to his home in Marblehead from the mid-west. She passed away sitting beside him in the car about two days into the move. This seemed to affect him greatly. He began shutting his board and other sites down after that.
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