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SSN 680 Plan of the Day

Nine Days and Counting!

Only nine days until REGROUPEX 09!

That's right - nine days left. September 4th, sometime in the evening, we will start convening in the rented suite at the Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center in San Diego, California, for a weekend of sun, surf, suds, sea-stories, and the occasional 'sea'-gar. (Sorry, I was working on the 's' words and just ran out.)

We currently have 28 former shipmates registered which is liable to make it a standing room only crowd, but we'll have to wait and see when we get there. There is still time to register using the REGROUPEX 09 button on most pages, and, quite frankly, it's not too late until the weekend is over, so if you are willing, we'd be glad to see you, even if you can't spend the whole weekend there.

In keeping with the finest traditions of the USS William H. Bates, and in deference to the principles by which this reunion was organized (using the word loosely) we have absolutely nothing planned. Seriously. We may arrange a group meal or two out, we may just send out for pizza. Who knows! We may take a cruise on the bay, we may just sit by the pool and swap sea-stories. The USSVI meeting starts Monday and they have more than enough organized for anybody who can stay and take some of it in, so we are just going with the traditional laid-back, Battlin' Billy Bates attitude, and see what happens.

Based on the two past get-togethers I've been at this year with former shipmates, that will work out just fine as we talk well into the night just trying to catch up.

We are planning on including a Bates ballcap with every registration, and we'll make those available through the website here in a day or two. We'll have some genuine official badges (we don't need no stinkin' badges!) to wear wandering around the hotel so you'll look genuinely like a former shipmate wearing a badge, but that is about as excited as we are going to get.

So, if you aren't registered yet, sign up using Paypal and the REGROUPEX 09 button on the right side of each web-page. Join the USSVI ($25) since we get the advantage of their group rate at the hotel, and come spend the weekend catching up with old shipmates - when you get tired of us, you can wander over to the USSVI meeting and hang with the smoke-boaters.

Looking forward to seeing all of you in San Diego.

Nine more days!

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