Tony signed up for the Navy while he was a junior in high school in New Jersey. He trained in San Diego, then was stationed at Mare Island.
While at Mare Island, he met a local girl and got married a day and a half before his first of two deployments to Viet Nam. They now live in Pleasant Hill, and have three beautiful grandkids.
Tony speaks very highly about his time in the Navy, when a lot important events happened in his life. He says it grew him up. And he still stays connected to the naval community by working to restore a WWII craft (LCS102) which was a heavily armored & armed craft used in the Pacific to give cover to personnel landing on the the beach. His group has access to the moth ball fleet in the delta, where they are looking for parts in an effort to have the craft ready for SF fleet week this year.
