Veterans' Voices: Rochester
Series produced by KRPR
Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.
Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.
Veteran' Voices is produced by KRPR and Ampers.
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When Terry Throndson was stationed in Scotland with the Navy, he met a local celebrity—the Queen Mother. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Terry Throndson got along with the pilots aboard his Navy carrier. He became good friends with a pilot he first met when he arrested him during sho...
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Terry Throndson was put into a Naval fire department where his job put him above enlisted who had more rank on him. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Terry Throndson took damage control school seriously. He was going to be sent to a carrier and this training showed him how to plug leaks when a sh...
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Terry Throndson was out to sea for three months when the shipped pulled into Barcelona, Spain. As soon as he hit ground, he started to sway. His se...
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Terry Throndson spent time aboard a carrier, where he had to strap himself in on deck when he recorded in the logbook to make sure he wasn’t swept ...
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Terry Throndson grew up on water in Minnesota. But living aboard a ship in the Navy was a completely new experience. He had to re-learn how to walk...
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Terry Throndson experienced three hurricanes in the Navy. Undeterred, the sailors found ways to turn the tossing ship into a variety of games. Here...
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Terry Throndson flew off his carrier a lot on trips to resupply the ship. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Terry Throndson’s office on the Franklin Delano Roosevelt attack carrier was 32 feet below water. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Terry Throndson served on an attack carrier with a population of 6,800. It sometimes took two hours to get a meal. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Terry Throndson was paid $65 a month, and didn’t like it when the boat crews that came alongside the ship to sell pop and other drinks tried to run...
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On his ship, Terry Throndson worked in the wood shop and helped run the liberty boat that took enlistees to shore. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Terry Throndson volunteered for just about everything he could for in the Navy and he ended up a yeoman, where he became a jack of all trades. Here...
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Terry Throndson served in the Navy, 1971-75. It was during the Vietnam War, and he decided to volunteer and choose his own path rather than be draf...
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Wes Moreland only heard “This is not a drill” once while aboard the USS Tarawa. That day, a fueling ship cable snapped and came back at 200 mph, st...
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Wes Moreland’s carrier was in the Mediterranean when the weather turned bad. They were hundreds of miles at sea, and the pilots were unable to land...
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Wes Moreland was a plane captain aboard the USS Tarawa. The first question his pilot would ask before a flight was, “Is it full of gas?” Here’s Bri...
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Wes Moreland was in the Navy, 1951-55. He was aboard the USS Tarawa, a carrier, which cruised about 45 knots in open ocean. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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In 1995, Wayne Stillman helped form the committee that would one day create the Soldiers Field Veterans Memorial in Rochester. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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