POLARIS MISSILE FACILITY, ATLANTIC 34 Years of Service to the Fleet 29 March 1960 - 05 January 1995

DATE: 08 April 2006
TIME: 11:00am to 4:00pm
PLACE: Wannamaker County Park, Tupelo Shelter, University Blvd. (Highway 78), North Charleston, SC.
FOOD: Bar-B-Q and fixing's

We will need to know for sure that you are coming if you are on the list, by no later than 30 March 2006. Please send them to either the POMFLANT Remembered Web Site or to Mary M. Adams, or please phone 843-873-4596.

We hope you can all come. We have a lot of catching up to do. See you there!

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Grady Woodward - He is doing crime watch studies for the Berkeley County Sheriff for subdivisions starting a Neighbor Crime Watch.  He is adapts his National Awarding Winning St. James Estates Program to new groups. Grady is working with the Sheriff's Crime Prevention Officer in establishing a crime watch programs. Grady also has completed his second book, “Moon Rocket Secrets”, about his work and events in the early space program from his previous job with NASA in the 1960s. I retired (again) from an eight year project that was suggested by coworker Alysia Lucas and her husband Jeff, at an early POMFLANT get together.  They suggested that I visit schools and tell kids space stories and about rockets, from my earlier job with NASA in the 1960's. After I agreed, Alysia and Jeff worked in a four hour session with me to prepare my presentations.  The results were awesome as I processed 6,139 students, 380 adults, had six TV interviews (820,191 viewers) and Newspaper interviews that was read by 535,840 people.  School classrooms K4-12, scouts, college and adoption homes for kids, all add up.  I will forever be grateful to Alysia and Jeff for the idea and help.

Barry Loonam - Christmas/New Years Looneygram 2006. The used to be - Summerville Loonam's hope this holiday greeting finds you and yours in good health and good spirits wherever you are.   This marks the greatest change we have ever had in 35 years of marriage! Not only are we no longer in Summerville, SC, but we moved Coast to Coast to be near our grandchildren, and near them we are! We bought a house big enough for all seven of us "The Loonam Compound!" It's been a real challenge for all of us to combine two households under one roof, but we have made it happen and even had a Christmas drop in last week. We are an hour across by ferry from Seattle and at an hour and 15 minutes from the airport, so let us know when you can come see us. The views are breathtaking of the mountains, the harbors and the tallest trees.

Barry started this whole change, by taking to heart Wanda's comment during the first visit to the area, this is a nice place, why don't we move here? He applied to Lockheed Martin at SWFPAC for a trainer position, an old shipmate and long time friend, saw his name in the system and helped him apply for another position which he started in February. That was the easy part, selling their home after 23 years was emotionally hard and leaving a thousand friends and family behind still pulls on his heartstrings. Getting used to a new schedule that has him getting up at 0430 and at work by 0530 has been a challenge can't stay up every night for the best shows that start at 2200! But getting off at 1430 is a treat, lots of time to do work or shopping or sometimes takes a nap before dinner. He is looking forward to 2006, going back to college to finish his degree and getting more involved in the community, actually last week he was elected to the United Way Board of Directors, he has spent the last 6 months helping with this years campaign. The future is bright with Lockheed Martin; the contract has been extended to 2042! He won't stay that long.

Shawn and Jaimee, accepting the new life at the Loonam Compound, everyone works together to help with the 3 young ones: Sydney (7 in Feb) Jordan (3 in Feb) Logan (1 in Feb). YES, you read that right; all have birthdays in the shortest month of the year! Jaimee and Wanda planned a day long Brew-Fest event for Fathers Day; this place has beautiful mild, warm weather, not the rain every day you hear about Shawn was surprised and kidded about his Dad working in the same building, 20 feet away! It is funny how things work out sometimes. Shawn has an awesome reputation as a leader here, and his evaluation says so, so well keep our fingers crossed for the Chiefs Board to see he is ready, then maybe an LDO application Occasionally the grandparents step up and take care of all so they can go out and enjoy a night together, last week for the Command Christmas Party, Barry drove them to the Casino and a Duty Driver drove them home, so they could imbibe all they wanted Jaimee cooks, cleans, works to organize, helps Sydney with her 1st grade homework and et al. Then there is the constant attention required by Jordan and Logan, but sometimes she gets to sneak away for some me time with her friends.

Chris, has really established Roots this year in Atlanta, he finally decided on a condo near downtown Atlanta, is really committed to stay and work for Intercontinental Exchange AND just signed a lease for a new Passat!!! He still enjoys supporting the Atlanta Braves and is a season ticket holder for the Atlanta Falcons. He even occasionally stops tailgating long enough to watch the games! He and his friends still closely watch all of Clemson's sports teams Chris has flown out to see us twice this year, on Labor Day weekend; He, Shawn, Barry and long time family friend Larry Easley went to a Seahawks pre-season game and had a ball walking and visiting 4 bars along the way to get to the stadium!!! It is a Long Walk! Seems when Chris is here we end up going out to eat! We hope this season is a joyous one for you and yours and remember those family members and friends who have gone before us. Our best wishes to you for 2006: Peace and Prosperity!

What/when/where is the SSP 50th Anniversary Party (Click Here) ? I realize that it is too late to make reservations, but it would be nice to know the details.

I have worked in Civil Engineering here at the Charleston Air Force Base since leaving POMFLANT December 8, 1993, and am enjoying it. While I am old enough to retire, I have not yet decided when to retire. Until I retire, you can use my work e-mail (Click Here) if you like, since I do not have a home e-mail address. Of course, you can always use my home address: 798 Dupre Lane, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464. I have marked April 8, 2006 on my calendar for the POMFLANT Picnic, and plan to attend. I think the Wannamaker County Park is in the general area as the "Whirling Waters" park; and I think I can find the Tupelo Shelter within the park.

We were more than sailors; we were laborers in the fields of freedom constraining the darkness of atheistic communism from consuming the earth.  That we did our jobs well is evidenced now by the fall of the veil of Atheistic Communism from the earth.  We served in a time when the people of the nation little appreciated the sacrifices of such service and yet we persevered with a deliberated sense of duty born from a love of freedom and God and Nation.  Since leaving the service, I and many of you, have engaged in the conflict in a different, but no less demanding, arena fighting the war on a spiritual front.  I pray to God that we prevail throughout all our lifetimes so that the darkness does not engulf this Nation which we so valiantly served in the cause of freedom against Communism.

God Bless each of you this day, and a Merry Christmas and a Happy and a Prosperous New Year.

In May, Jim and our son-in-law, Mike Steele (whose father, Leon Steele, worked at POMFLANT), went to the NASCAR race at Darlington SC.

Rosalie continues her volunteer work at one of the local hospitals (over 5-yrs now), and Jim is in his 5th year as a volunteer at the Retired Affairs Office, Naval Weapons Station.  He is also commencing his 23rd year as a volunteer South Carolina State Constable, and rides weekly with one of the Sargeants, with Berkeley County Sheriff's Department. It keeps his hand in law enforcement, and he really enjoys it.

Rosalie had a total knee replacement in September 2005, and has recovered completely, and we walk a mile daily in our neighborhood. Both our children live in the area, and we thoroughly enjoy our little 4-yr old granddaughter, "Gracy". We took a 5-day cruise, out of Jacksonville, in October 2005, to Nassau and Freeport, and really enjoyed it. That's about it for now, take care, and hope to see everyone at the POMFLANT reunion in April.

Rosi Freeman (formerly Tiessen) - I started my Civil Service career in 1974 as a GS-3 and retired as a Quality Assurance Specialist GS-11 in November of 2005, with 31 years and 6 months of dedicated Government service. Twenty-three of those years were spent working for the Strategic Systems Programs Fleet Ballistic Missile Program. The last 16 years were spent at the Strategic Weapons Facility, Atlantic (SWFLANT) in support of the US/UK Trident II D5 Missile Program. I have been a Clerk-Stenographer (for the USDA in Sacramento, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii); Clerk-Stenographer/Clerk-Dictation Machine Transcriber/Clerk-typing (CIC Pacific, Headquarters, Camp H. Smith, Aiea, Hawaii); and a Quality Assurance clerk (POMFLANT, Charleston, SC) and Quality Assurance Specialist at POMFLANT and SWFLANT. I received my Bachelor Degree in August 1982 from Charleston Southern University (formerly Baptist College) and am a member of Beta Sigma Phi. I received numerous awards and accolades during my long career. I currently live in Kingsland, GA, with my artist husband, Mitchell Freeman, and our animal companions, Grumbles (dog) and Mandy (cat).

John C. and Bonnie Rogers - On 30 September 2005 John C. Rogers Jr., former POMFLANT employee in the Inspection Department SPC20, retired with 37 years of Federal service, from the Weapons QA Department, Trident Refit Facility, Kings Bay, GA. John and Bonnie will be remaining in the Woodbine, GA area, until Bonnie can retire in about 42 months. John will stay busy with his "Honey Do List" for quit awhile. After Bonnie retires they hope to return to South Carolina. Pictured are some of the former POMFLANT employees who traveled to Kingsland, GA on 13 August to celebrate his retirement and their 25th wedding anniversary (left to right: John Fortune, Ellen Robertson, Nancy Thomas (wife of Ron Thomas), Bonnie and John Rogers, Betty Kadoma, and Rosalie Lawrence. Not pictured but also in attendance was Todd Miller).

Since our last newsletter, I have received information that the following co-workers, co-workers family members and friends have died:

Curtis Clyde Yant, Jr. - Civilian, passed 29 October 2005.

Wanda Joyce Hoge Criddle - Jim Criddle's Wife, passed 29 October 2005.

Olga Helen Shaddock - CDR (USN RET) Gil Shaddock's Wife, Civilian, passed 02 November 2005.

Connie M. Gaillard - P. G. "Buddy" Gaillard's, Wife, passed 15 December 2005.

Henry R. Keefer - Civilian, passed 22 February 2006.

Cathy P. Waymyers - Peterson President's Daughter, passed 23 February 2006.

Thelma Midge Lucinda Noel Detamore - Civilian, passed 24 February 2006.

Take Care,
Ron and Nancy