Roosevelt Roads Naval Station

grand for that kind of holiday yeah

you know but it was that's the one of the perks isn't it but the other side of the coin would be we went into puerto rico and um It's an American naval base there called Rosy Roads.

You were told not to go out in groups less than four, but you'd get mugged.

So, I mean, as soon as you say, don't do it, everybody does it.

So I'm guessing somewhere around where...

Because the Roosevelt Rhodes aircraft, I guess, would be the aggressors that would be going up against us.

Then we had, I know, the USS Virginia, the USS South Carolina, because they would kind of interchange the plane guard.

And back then, I didn't know these things like the racetrack, like I learned when I

Their daughter, Rebecca Lynn, was born there.

Her sixth duty station was the Naval Hospital in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, three years there, and their son, Robert Bruce, was born.

Her last duty station before retirement was the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Donna loved to sing and dance.

I was on a CGN-41, so it had a helo deck on the back.

So they medevaced me off the ship by helicopter back to Roosevelt Roads, and back then there was no computers.

But that's basically what saved you.

Yeah, it

The headline, VC-8 helicopter crew rescues diver.

A helicopter crew from Fleet Composite Squadron 8, VC-8, operating from Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, rescued a local diver December 5th, who had become disoriented and came ashore on the island.

At approximately 11:30 AM, officials at the Coast Guard's Air Station Borinquen notified Roosevelt Roads authorities that the diver, George Gavino, age 33, was reported missing earlier that morning near the island.

As Roosevelt Roads was closer to the diver's last known location, officials here agreed to launch the helicopter from VC-8 to search for the missing diver.

According to the helicopter's commander, the Sea King took off from Roosevelt Roads at 11:55 AM, and at first unsuccessfully searched the waters and beaches along Vieques north shore.

But then things changed when the local fishing vessel was spotted.

Quote, "The people on the fishing boat seemed to know we were looking for the diver because they started pointing towards the east." The helicopter then continued to fly east.

A few minutes later, Gavino was observed alive on one of the northern beaches and was rescued at 12:35 PM.

And they were on deployment.

So as soon as I finished the rag, right, I, they threw me on a plane and sent me down to Puerto Rico, and, you know, I land in Roosevelt Roads and walk off the ladder, and there's, you know, my fam- my new family.

Uh, standing on the ramp with a cooler full of beer, just like we, we talked about earlier.

Beautiful.

Hmm

... um, I would end up down in Puerto Rico at Roosevelt Roads, which is a Navy base.

Your husband probably knows this.

Hmm.

Per Air Wars, there have been survivors almost every month of the campaign, but only three out of the twenty-eight total have ever been rescued.

These strikes originally started in the Caribbean following the mobilization of military assets into the region, which includes the reactivation of the once dormant Roosevelt Roads military base in Puerto Rico, where I live and I'm currently recording from.

I'm sure that I've seen some of the aircraft used in these strikes and other military operations in the region from the hill that overlooks the base's airstrip.

And I've probably watched every single one of the videos the Trump administration or the US military has posted announcing that these strikes took place.