Entry 456
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2004 Time: 2:18 PM EST
Email=
Name= Bruce R Freeman EN3
Served= August 1965 to September 1967
Ship / Unit= USS Vance DER 387
Age= 55
City= Corona
State= California
Zip= 92880
Country= United States
Phone= 909-898-9737
A URL to share= No
How did you find this site?= Someone told me about it
Reasons for reading about the Vance= Served aboard, To find shipmates
Comments= Good afternoon Joe.
I was discussing days gone by with one of my neighbors a couple of weeks ago. We started talking about what we use to do and prior military life, when Ron told me that he was in the Navy from 1967 to 1971 and he was on a ship based in Pearl Harbor. I said what a coincidence, so was I. As it turned out, Ron and I were on the Vance at about the same time. What a small world it really is. Ron Carlson, is the one who told me about the web site.
I have a large number of pictures and will dig them out and send them in. It was good to hear from you.

Your right, my neighbor is Ron Carlson the ships barber and ships store clerk. As far as a description of me, I was tall (6'2") and weighed 130 lbs. wet, brown hair and lived below decks most of the time in engine room #1.

I was part of the Arenheiter Affair both before and after. I was not mentioned by name in the book written about our experience on the Vance, but I was the sailor who was accused of steeling the Marcus' "Hell's Reveille" tape. I listened to country music on a small tape recorder and because of that, I was brought up to Marcus' cabin when I received the wrath of his verbal abuse. After leaving his stateroom, I wished I had been the one who absconded with the tape (as he put it).

I was fresh out of school, green recruit and ready to solve all the problems of the world. What a wild ride I had those first few months in the navy. After those 100 days of hell, things got better. Please feel free to use my statements as they were all true.
Thank you.
Bruce R. Freeman
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