CTOCM(NAC) ROBERT R. “RED” ADAMS
UNITED STATES NAVY, RETIRED
25 Dec 1937 – 15 Jan 2015
Robert R. Adams was born 25 December 1937, in Wilson, Oklahoma. He joined the service on 26 March 1957, and retired on 1 October 1989, with 32 years, four months and eight days of service.Duty assignments: Recruit Training, San Diego, California; Class A Teleman School, San Diego, California; Communications Technician A School (Communications), Imperial Beach, California; Guam, Mariana Islands; Sidi Yahia, Morocco; Kami Seya, Japan; CINCPAC/ CINCPACFLT Hawaii; Pensacola, Florida; USS BONHOMME RICHARD (CVA-31); Naples, Italy; Naval Security Group HQs; CINCPACFLT Hawaii; Navy Recruiting Duty, Oklahoma City; Edzell, Scotland; Training Air Wing Four, Corpus Christi, Texas; and Naval Security Group HQs, Washington, D.C.
Highlights of his career were serving as airborne flag communicator for ADM Thomas Hayward at CINCPACFLT Hawaii; Command Master Chief at Edzell Scotland with Captain’s Ike Cole and Fred Demech; Command Master Chief of Training Airwing Four, Corpus Christi, Texas, with Captain Howard Young and as the fifth Force Master Chief of the Naval Security Group with RADM Don McDowell and RADM James McFarland from August 1986 to August 1989.
His awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal (with gold star), Navy Unit Commendation, Meritorious Unit Commendation (with 3 bronze stars), Good Conduct Medal (with silver and bronze stars), National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service Medal (with silver star), Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation, Republic of Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
Source: NCVA Echoes of Our Past
Edited by Mario Vulcano
3 April 2017 at 17:09
*************TAPS*************
The bugle has sounded taps once more, to call our friends to another shore.
Some were strangers and some we knew, but each one wore the Navy blue.
We only saw them once a year, as we would get together here….
We’d tell sea stories and have a beer, to enjoy the laughter and good cheer.
To bond with someone we just met, to share the times we won’t forget.
They’ve gone on to a calmer sea, to sail the heavens for eternity.
We will miss them one and all, those proud sailors, who stood so tall.
Don’t be sad that we’re apart for they are with us in our heart.
There is a bond with Navy men, like no other I have known.
So look around you shipmates, you will never be alone.
*************TAPS*************
Rest in Peace, your watch is over, you have been properly relieved.
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