Randall Mark "Randy" Pipkin

Randy Pipken, was my first class petty officer on the US Praire, he was a gentle giant (I learned the gentle part much later in our friendship, haha). He was a great leader of our Dive Locker, work hard, play harder. I remember when I first got to the Praireit was in Bremerton Washington and it was the weekend, time for iniation, well the divers drank Jack Daniels and at the time I was 19, so me and Jack Daniels was not a common drink but a drink I did have once or twice before. Well the...