Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - page 25

Coast Guard - San Clemente

At that time the Coast Guard base in San Clemente was next to the Western White House of 
President Richard Nixon.

Nixon would drive his golf cart around on the Coast Guard grounds which occupied the corner of Camp Pendleton.

"When Nixon drove the golf cart around the CG base, his little white poodle would be on the back of the cart. It would bark at the Coast Guardsmen. The Guardsmen were always worried that their large German Shepard would take off after the poodle and the golf cart. That would not have been good!"

Brian was one of 6 Coast Guardsmen whose job was to be the station operators for LORAN. LORAN was a long range aid for navigation. It was the same job that he would perform in the Philippines.

[Nixon's Western White House was in the location of the property that has an oval pool, orientated west to east. The Coast Guard base was to the south of that property.]

The pathway to the southeast of the property, is where families who are stationed at Camp Pendleton would walk to the beach.]

"There really wasn't more - it [the job] wasn't terribly demanding. There was preventive maintenance to do. There were 2 large transmitters that broadcast the radio timing signals that ships at sea would use for navigation. The transmitters were 6 feet by 4 feet."

"At San Clemente, I got to go home every other weekend. Dad was doing ok while I was there. He had retired from work due to the decrease in his mental acuity."

"I was stationed there for about 18 months. After that, I was sent to the Philippines."

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