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[Navynuke99]

I wrote this a few years ago:

So No Joke, There I Was

EMC(SW) Thomas Bates - In Memorium - 1975-2005 Tom was one of the best sailors I ever had the pleasure to serve with, an outstanding electrician and one hell of a nuke. We reported to the Reagan around the same time, my class fresh from Prototype, him just finishing a staff pickup instructor tour there. Before he’d joined the Navy, he’d spent a couple of years playing Fullback for NC State, and he still had the size, speed, and strength of a football player. Those traits, combined with piercing…