Alan D. Minyard

I knew Alan when we were first stationed on the Grand Canyon (AR-28) in Mayport and both worked in the Outside Machine Shop. He proved to be very knowledgeable with shipboard engineering systems and taught me quite a bit, as I was rather new in the shipboard repair business.

I met up with him again, almost 10 years later on another Destroyer Tender, USS Acadia (AD-41). Again, we were in the same division, I was the supervisor of the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration shop, he was in...