Talk:Mount Santa Rita Naval Link Station/@comment-50.171.132.48-20160330232713

Navlinksta Mt. Santa Rita had what we called "5 shots", Subic Bay Naval Base, NAS Cubic Pt., Navcommsta San Miguel, Clark AFB, and to the Embassy in Manila which was our longest shot and was over water. I was stationed there from Aug. 1974 to Dec. 1977. When I first arrived there we received comes from Nha Trang, South Vietnam via what was called the "wet wash cable", an under ocean cable. After the fall of South Vietnam we took over as the "master pilot" station for all the other shots on the link. We had a barracks, chow hall, recreation room with pool table, bar, TV, and movie projection equipment. Upon my arrival there in August of 1974 there was only 2 other Radioman stationed there, the rest were ET's (Electronic technicians). Following that the Navy assigned a couple other RM's there. We stood watch around the clock and eventually were assigned an ET to stand watch with us. It was one of my most eventful duty stations during my career in the Navy. We had monkeys, Philippine Cobras, Philippine pythons, wild boar, and monitor lizards that grew to 6-8 ft long. Quite an experience for a young sailor on his second hitch in the Navy.