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It was a beautiful day in
Southern California. Clear blue skies, no clouds to be seen. A pleasant 75
degrees with a gentle ocean breeze made for a great Southern California day.
The date was May 21, 2005 and we were at Seabee Days at Port Hueneme Naval
Base Ventura County. What a great venue for an armwrestling event. This was
the first time armwrestling was held at Seabee Days, so the turn out was
light. With approximately 30 competitors and a little changing of weight
divisions John was able to run a tournament. Here are the results for the
first event held at Seabee Days:
Men’s Open Right-hand 0-154: 1st
Chris Phillips, 2nd Johnny Burgeson, and 3rd Country Irving.
Men’s Open Right-hand 155-176: 1st
Johnny Burgeson, 2nd Chris Phillips, and 3rd Charles Antonopulos.
Men’s Open Right-hand 176-190: 1st
Kameron Maynard, 2nd John Burgeson, and 3rd James Snelling.
Men’s Open Right-hand 200+: 1st
Ryan Pederson, 2nd Ed Shelton, and 3rd Steve Inzalaco.
Men’s Open Left-hand: 0-165: 1st
Chris Phillips, 2nd Johnny Burgeson, and 3rd Country
Irvine.
Men’s Open Left-hand: 1st
Ed Shelton, 2nd Larry Rehfeld, and 3rd Randy Shelton.
With a small tournament like
this we were able to try out our new computer bracketing system. This was a
very successful adventure and will be used again. There were a lot of
spectators watching so next years event will be bigger.
Seabee Days had so much family
fun to offer. It started with a military parade, led by a Marine Corp band,
with 800 Seabee’s (women and men) marching onto the field, all in dress
white uniforms. The parade ended with a jet fly over and a machinegun fire
display. There were carnival rides and carnival food. And yes, a beer
garden too. All types of military trucks and heavy equipment that you could
climb on and into. There were trucks with grenade launchers on them and
little kids climbing all over the trucks just pretending they were shooting
the gun. Saturday was the all day car show and Sunday brought in the
motorcycle poker run and bike show. Live music and entertainment was
provided on both days. If you were lucky enough and early enough, you could
sign up to tour one of the two ships, USS Ogden (LPD-5) an amphibious
transport and USS Decatur (DDG-73) a guided missile AEGIS destroyer. A rare
opportunity in today’s post 9/11 world. The USS Ogden carries amphibious
assault vehicles and can accommodate six CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters with a
crew of more than 1,300 Sailors and Marines. USS Decatur is capable of
firing a mix of Standard, Tomahawk and ASROC missiles for strike warfare or
anti-submarine warfare missions with a SH-60B Seahawk helicopter. The guided
missile destroyer has a crew of 337 Sailors. All of this and admission and
parking were free. We would like to thank Chris Phillips for helping us get
armwrestling involved in this venue and we look forward to next year’s
event.
Joan Burgeson