Them and Us outside Tropical Bert’s.

The Bridge

IT HAS taken us a couple of years to achieve it, but the Royal British Legion Thailand, now have a great working relationship with the US Navy. To that ends we were invited to visit the USS Fitzgerald, and our group were given a guided tour by Master Chief Eric Cole. We had a fantastic few hours aboard and all fell in love with our very own Albert R.N. who served in the Royal Navy from 1946.

Eric briefs us!

George Barrie Presents our Plaque to the Chief

What we did not know, was that April 1st is the US Navy’s Chiefs day, the first recorded rank of Chief dated back to April 1st 1893. Now being as they have Dry Ships (no alcohol!), they needed somewhere with a little fire water to celebrate their birthday, enter Tropical Bert’s/Royal British Legion, and the next afternoon we were the hosts on what turned out to be a great afternoon, with plenty of “Ya Hoo’s”.