Naval Weather Service Association (NWSA)

 

 NAVAL WEATHER SERVICE ASSOCIATION

An association of Aerographers & Mates,
Meteorologists & Oceanographers

LOOKING FOR A SHIPMATE

 

Feel free to submit any requests to webmaster@navalweather.org

and we'll check our Bellinger List of former AGs.

To include your request in our Aerograph newsletter, submit it to aerograph@navalweather.org

 

Also try a posting on Facebook's Navy AGs (Aerographers Mates) Group.

 

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Source: Email Dec. 31, 2026
To Whom it may concern,
While emptying an old trunk I have discovered a photo of the Aerographer’s School - Class of 1933.
My assumption, is that someone in my ancestry is depicted and I’d like to investigate that possibility. I’ve included a snapshot of both the front and back. The back has a list identifying the navy men shown. 
Would you possibly have any information as to their home towns? I think that may be helpful in my effort to discover a link to my heritage. 
Please email back any information you may have. Thank you in advance. 
Regards,
Gary O’Connell
Source: Email Sept. 4 2025

I am a Marine who went to Weather & Rawindsonde School in 1983 with Frank Pupillo and Tina Arrington at Chanute AFB. I have found Frank and I would to find Tina Arrington. After Chanute, she was stationed at Diego Garcia in 1984.

Paul Mala

Source: Email Oct. 15 2024

Looking for AG2 Nancy Gibson 

Patuxent river naval air station weather office 1974

Robert Bowman
Source: Email May 25, 2023

Subject: "A" school grad of Navy weather 1978

I graduated from Aerographer's mate "A" school at Chanute AFB in 1978. I got there about January 1978 and graduated about March 1978. I then was sent to Fleet Weather Facility- Suitland in Maryland. I am Tom Lippi from Denver, Colorado. In my class was Rocco Nigro III from Rome, New York. He was sent to Andrews AFB weather office in Washington DC. I became a satellite imagery analyst for the southern hemisphere and learned alot. I got out of the Navy in October 1981. I was stationed there my whole tour. We changed our name to Naval Polar Oceanography Center in about 1980. Dan Stemple from Klamath Falls, Oregon and the late Mark King from Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, graduated a few classes later from Chanute weather school. We all worked together at Suitland. 

Tom Lippi