The Dogs of H-3
Dogs were a permanent part of the morale builders at H-3. While I was stationed there, there were four dogs . Pictured above is Friskie, He was most definitely the "King of H-3". He could go most anywhere he wanted and one of his loyal "subjects" would always be available to hold the door open or to get "King Friskie" some delicious snack. "The King" could also take a rest and survey his kingdom as is shown here.
Late update: From our lone Navy representative, Paul James, I have received news and pictures to let me know that there were a few pups born at H-3 in our time there. The pictures on the second row are courtesy of Paul.
H-3 also had the two site cats. Fred was the secretive female. A small tiger cat, she could only be coaxed out from under the tower or from the ceilings when you opened a can of sardines. If you put the can down and stepped away, she would come a grab a piece and then go back in hiding.
Judy, the male, (Yes, we were getting a little bit weird here.) was a friendly black tom. He would visit you whenever he felt like it. He was especially social on the mid-shift. He would sometimes lay atop the dummy load for the standby search radar channel. This dummy load took the place of an antenna and dissipated the power being generated while the standby channel was undergoing tests or just idling. It made for a nice warm location up high from which Judy could survey his "kingdom".
Courtesy of Barry Aistop we have a video of the "Dogs of H-3" Note: Some web browsers do not handle this file format very well. I suggest saving the download and then using VLC player to view the video. I will be trying to make this file more adaptable to multiple browsers but till then......(VLC Player is available as a free download from http://www.videolan.org/index.html
Dogs of H-3
Paul also gave us some updated info about the names that were used by the Navy and Air Force guys for the dogs:
Looks like the Navy & Air Force gave different names to the same dogs.
Fritters & Brownie had two offspring which the AF guys named Blackie and Queen. The Navy guys called these same dogs GJ (aka Blackie) and Ginger (aka Queen). GJ was named by someone that lived in Grand Junction and he was the dog in the back seat of the truck. GJ (aka Blackie} was a shy/friendly dog that mostly hung out in the Navy barracks. The things that I remember most about GJ & Ginger was that if you went for a walk they would always appear from out of nowhere and walk with you. It was also amazing how GJ was able to jump up and catch a low flying bird right out of the air.
Hope I didn't confuse you with the names.
Paul James