Sgt Grit,
My first duty station turned out to be my only duty station (66-69). It is strange how a Parris Island Marine ended up in Califorina but it was great duty and a wonderful place to live. The pictures are of MCAF Santa Ana around 1965. The hanger on the left (closes to the main gate) is where H&MS-30 had its parachute shop but most of the "hams" offices were in the hanger on the right. The only other base that had blimp hangers that I know of was NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey. This famous base (the Hindenburg crashed there) was where I went to Parachute Rigger A school in early 1966.
Sgt J. H. Quick