by Troy Riggs | Jun 26, 2019 | Troy's Blogs
As July 4th, 2019 approaches there is the beginning of a serious plan to do for what could be our first long term trip (in both duration and distance) RV excursion. We now have family living in Key West FL so we have been watching some You Tube videos about Key...
by Troy Riggs | Jun 22, 2019 | Troy's Blogs
Why haven’t you bought an RV yet? So, WHY don’t we have that RV we posted about? If we’ve already picked it out and we’re already retired twice over, why aren’t we living the dream? Fair questions deserving a fair answer. Up until November of...
by Troy Riggs | May 10, 2019 | Sea Stories
GENERAL QUARTERS, GENERAL QUARTERS!! All hands man your battle stations! This is NOT a drill!!! I have only heard that phrase one time in my Navy career. Every other time, the announcement went, “This is a drill, this is a drill. General Quarters, General...
by Troy Riggs | May 4, 2019 | Sea Stories
In 1984, I made a deployment on the USS Saratoga (CV-60) to the Mediterranean Sea. Two events stand out about this deployment. The first is that I was chosen as one of two enlisted sailors who got to fly the “TRANSLANT”, which means Transit the Atlantic...
by Troy Riggs | Apr 25, 2019 | Sea Stories
FollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollow I was an Avionics Technician and Maintenance Officer in the Navy with most of my time in Aviation Squadrons. Each day “Ops” came out with the daily Flight Schedule. We always joked that the flight schedule was only a...