Crew Photos of the IFS-1
LtCmdr. Roy E. McCoy, Captain of the
Carronade receiving a plaque from the
representative of the Ryan Company
for excellence in shooting the Ryan
built remote controlled aerial and
surface targets during training at San
Diego. Also present is Ltjg. Steve
Duncan, Gunnery Officer. The names
of the Admiral and the Ryan rep are
unknown at this time.  
Picture is taken from the
re-commisioning program, 2
OCT 1965
Weapons Division
Jan 1967 to July 1969
Bill Kent, ENSN
Bernard G, Howlett GMGSN
Captain USS CARRONADE
Hector Cardenas QM3
Navigation Division
Nov 1965 to Oct 1967
Ike Landau  SN
Weapons Division
June 1965 to Jan 1968
(later GMG3 on the Okinawa)
Robert McGee LTjg
David Welch  FN
Engineering Division
1965-1968
Homer Roller  EN2
Engineering Division
Dec 1966-June 1970
Served under Capt's
McCoy, Pritchard and
Black
Gary Hines RD3
Operations Division
1968- (more info later)
James Laub GMG2
deceased Nov 23, 2002
Weapons Division
May 1955-1957
(San Diego Naval
Station/Silver Strand
in Background)
Stan Laub FTG3
1956-1960
Weapons Division
(taken in Subic Bay,
Phillippines)
Garold Fencl  EM3
Engineering Division
March 1966-April
1968
Doug Raisley ET
Operations Division
(wearing a New Zealand
Navy hat)
Radar Gang
           Left-----Right
Micheal Langston; Tom Scally; __?__
Currance; ___?___; "Moose" __?__;
Dale Miller. If you can fill in the blanks
or I have some names wrong, write and
let me know. Thanks, Bernie
Roy Newton ENS
Oct 1965 to Feb 1969
Tom Hayes FTGSN
Weapons Division
1969-Decommission
Weapons Division
(holding a long range
rocket, note the smaller
warhead)
Richard Meyer FTGSN
1967-1969
Engineering Division
Nov 1965 to Jan 1968
(Navy picture not yet
available)
John T Brown
electrician
Waiting for pictures.....
Billy Ringwald, 1955-1957
Charles Lehr
Jeff Schultz, 1967-1969
John O'Reilly, 1965-1967, Signalman
Richard LeGear
Leon Rook, 1955-1957
Tom Scally, 1966-
Ken Jones, 1968-1969
Mike Parks,1968-1969
Larry Judkins, 1965-1968
Lester Crutchfield
Dale Miller, 1968-1970
Darell Blankenship, 1966-1967
Dick Jefferies
Richard J. Patterson, 1969-1970
Gary R. Rymer, 1959-
Tim Moshella
Kenneth Hale
Lonnie Trowbridge 1965-1968, ET1
Ronald Cowan, GMGC (deceased
4/02)
Ron MacDonald, 1956-1958
Floyd J. Chapman, Dec 1956-1960,
GMG3
Don Holifield, Dec 1966- ,Deck/Radar
striker,
Charles(Chuck) Thoin, 1969-decomm.
PN2
Rudy Patino, Jan 1966-Jan 1968 FTG2
Ray Springmeyer, Feb
1968-May1970,BM2
Micheal J. Arnell,1969-1970
Stan Donelson, FTG3 1969 (deceased
5/13/03)
Charlie (Butch) Neal, Dec 1965-Sept
1967,SK3
Steve Coupland, GMG1
1957-Decomm(1960)
Men, I have lost contact with or
email addresses have changed
for: Ringwald, Lehr, Rook,
Patterson, Crutchfield, Brown.
Please Help me re-establish
contact, thanks. Bernie
Recomm(1965)-1967
Arthur Mercer, GMC, 1957-1959
Wayne Alnutt, SHSN, '58 (deceased
'01)
Ken Mohrlok, Ltjg, Engineering, 1958-
Dwight W. George, Sept 1967-
Steve Duncan,Ltjg, Weapons,1965-
Douglas G. Britt,
Tim Holdaway,
Dennis Geiger, FTGSN, Jun 1968-July
1970
George Villa, HMSN, Dec 1968-Nov
1969
Micheal Stanford, Weps Div,
Comm-Feb 1967
Renato Giannini,
Dave Mendenhall, FA, Apr 1965-Oct
1966
Bruce Morton, FTG3, Oct 1965-Dec
1967
Micheal Meador, GMG 1966-1968
Francis Darden, END3 Comm-June
1956
Ken Wilcox, Supply Officer, Aug
1969-Decomm
Eugene Hicks, Engineering Officer,
May 1956-Sept 1956
Jim Venti, ENFN, 1968-1970
Jim Everett, 1969-1970
Chet Gates
PN3 Charles (Chuck) Thoin
deceased (I'll have the
date next posting, first
week of Jan 2006, I
believe)...
Ray Springmeyer  BM2
Gary Preble YN1
Mike Seljos SA
R Florea SM3
Paul Esche YN3
Howie McDermott  SN