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    1. ” I had also “rotated through the chairs” as a Founder of NCMA’s Gulf Coast chapter in Pascagoula and Mobile, i


    2. Dixie and I delayed eight days at her parents’ Scottsdale home in our journey from Oakland to Pascagoula, MS, (where I had accepted a job as SupShip Pascagoula Counsel, i


    3. So Dixie and I again moved, this time to Pascagoula, MS, where I became the Navy lawyer at Ingalls shipyard


    4. That left us with the 72 Gran Torino (like Clint Eastwood drove in the recent movie of the same name) in which to transport ourselves, dragging a U-Haul trailer with our most immediately needed personal possessions behind it, to Pascagoula for the Navy OGC job which I had obtained by answering an ad in the WSJ’s classifieds and interviewing with Dave James at the GD missile plant in Pomona where I had assumed that I would be employed


    5. Before we could leave Orinda, they called me with two pieces of bad news: first, my hiring which was announced by a December 24th phone call—our Christmas present that year, was being put on hold by President Ford’s hiring freeze; secondly, if they got it lifted (which they did easily because I was replacing a fired GS-14 and was badly needed), we had to go to Pascagoula


    6. Little did we realize that instead of Southern California, our next destination was Pascagoula, Mississippi


    7. They had just fired the GS-14 in Pascagoula, so they sent me


    8. My UCLS degree did get me the Navy OGC job, albeit in Pascagoula, MS, in fall of ‘74, when I had lost five jobs in seven years


    9. Another interesting twist of fate, of which the Navy was ignorant when they recruited me, and for most of my tenure, was that I had been interviewed by telephone by Ingalls’ GC, George Washington Howell, before the Navy hired me—then on its third try, assigned me to Pascagoula


    10. In other words, there was no “conflict of interest” when I was simultaneously being considered for employment by both the contractor and government contract administration office in Pascagoula

    11. Hence, while Ingalls was still considering me for their Pascagoula job, the Navy was going to send me to Pomona, which did not constitute a “conflict of interest


    12. ” At the very last possible moment our household goods were diverted from New Orleans to Pascagoula, a move for which I, as a new government hire had to pay for


    13. Litton, whose other components were non-defense, had recently purchased the Ingalls Nuclear Shipbuilding Company from Joe Ingalls, a Pascagoula native, to bid upon and win two Firm Fixed-Price Total Package Procurements for first, the 30 vessel DD 963 (Spruance) class destroyers; then the nine ship class of Light Helicopter Assault (LHA) smaller, conventionally powered helicopter carriers for the Marine Corps (but sailed of course by the Navy)


    14. NavSea legal (OOL) had already staffed a three to four lawyer claims office at Blue Lake Manor, a six-acre, federally owned reservation in the city of Pascagoula which had a combination BO/BEQ as well as the O club and some office space


    15. At Pascagoula, the chief civilian contracting officer, a GS-14 named John Mahaffey, had the balls to attend my very small (seven persons) going away party at Mrs


    16. Macmillan had the chutzpah in blocking these attempts to say that he still needed me in Pascagoula until the LHA claim was settled


    17. Of the two lady assistants in DC while I was at Pascagoula, one each for LHA and DD 963 contracts, one went to Charleston NSY


    18. The first lady reached her level of incompetence as SupShip Groton Counsel like the idiot in Pascagoula


    19. ) I hit “reply all” button and shared my “good news” with them that I would miss the meeting because I was going back to Pascagoula


    20. Greg Garner, who as a GS-12 became one of Pressly’s two assistants, just totally misled me about what he thought concerning my former assistant and his boss (WP) at Pascagoula

    21. Then, for no good reason, Garner stabbed me in the back by sending the Navy, both Pressly and others in OGC Central, a “heads up” that I was coming to Pascagoula as a non-practicing lawyer in Contracts, working for the Contracts VP, and my former Gautier neighbor, John Arledge


    22. Ben Mullins in HR implied that he had gotten slapped around really hard by the GC and HR-VP for not considering whether my being hired would provoke that kind of frenzied reaction inside SupShip Pascagoula


    23. (I had already picked out a 2BR condo in Pascagoula


    24. 90, and replace it at three times the cost from an agent in Pascagoula who sold exclusively to non drinkers and non smokers


    25. Mobile had it, but Pascagoula, and certainly Gautier, did not


    26. So, wanting to enjoy the upcoming TG dinner, I drove over to Moss Point, a smaller town, north of Pascagoula, with no discernible border between the two, to be seen by a dentist in my Methodist church


    27. When I got back to Pascagoula, my late wife and I took a three-week vacation to her parents’ home in W


    28. I would miss the meeting because I was going back to Pascagoula


    29. A hurricane passed over Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula during Dixie’s 12-hour labor


    30. After 4 years as SupShip Pascagoula Counsel, I was screwed by the Navy when the LHA claim ended and my “assistant” returned to the shipyard

    31. McDonald AJ, Mascagni F (1997) Projections of the lateral entorhinal cortex to the amygdala: a


    32. McDonald AJ, Mascagni F, Guo L (1996) Projections of the medial and lateral prefrontal cortices


    33. About the same period Biloxi, near the Pascagoula, was settled


    34. said, he had no hesitation in declaring that either Pearl River or the Pascagoula ought to be the boundary which is to separate the two parts of the country respectively to be attached to the States of Louisiana and Mississippi—the Pearl River, upon the whole, would be the best, as dividing the territory in about equal portions


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