Posted on May 12, 2022
Remembering CAPT George McGinnis, USN, Cryptologist
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel R.I.P. Captain George McGinnis.
..."PF: I take it you have no regrets for your Navy career.
GM: No, I really don’t. I have some things that I wish I could have somehow prevented from happening. I guess everybody does. I told you I preferred duty at NSA and I did. I was offered jobs over there several different times, but I said, no, I’d rather go to NSA. I think I disappointed Ralph Cook but when I was Commanding Officer here at Corry, I had one more tour and Ralph Cook and I had been friends for many years and he said, well, I want you to come back and Head the equivalent of GX. G40 I think it’s called today. I said, well Ralph, that’s a good job and I appreciate that, I said, but you know I really don’t want it and I didn’t because I knew it was a nothing job. Paper pushing job and I really don’t like those jobs. I want to be able to do something. That’s when I ended up in NSA R&D and was there the longest I’d been anywhere. I was there six or seven years. That was really a wonderful job. The kind of thing I was taught to do from the very beginning but hadn’t done much of except when I was in GX but I wasn’t able to use those skills and I finally ended up in R&D. One of my projects in R&D is still in existence down in Cudjoe Key, Florida. A project that was set up in 1965 and it’s still going on down there.
PF: Well, we don’t want to get too involved in that then.
GM: It’s just above Key West.
PF: I think we’ve done remarkably well. I thank you very much."
..."PF: I take it you have no regrets for your Navy career.
GM: No, I really don’t. I have some things that I wish I could have somehow prevented from happening. I guess everybody does. I told you I preferred duty at NSA and I did. I was offered jobs over there several different times, but I said, no, I’d rather go to NSA. I think I disappointed Ralph Cook but when I was Commanding Officer here at Corry, I had one more tour and Ralph Cook and I had been friends for many years and he said, well, I want you to come back and Head the equivalent of GX. G40 I think it’s called today. I said, well Ralph, that’s a good job and I appreciate that, I said, but you know I really don’t want it and I didn’t because I knew it was a nothing job. Paper pushing job and I really don’t like those jobs. I want to be able to do something. That’s when I ended up in NSA R&D and was there the longest I’d been anywhere. I was there six or seven years. That was really a wonderful job. The kind of thing I was taught to do from the very beginning but hadn’t done much of except when I was in GX but I wasn’t able to use those skills and I finally ended up in R&D. One of my projects in R&D is still in existence down in Cudjoe Key, Florida. A project that was set up in 1965 and it’s still going on down there.
PF: Well, we don’t want to get too involved in that then.
GM: It’s just above Key West.
PF: I think we’ve done remarkably well. I thank you very much."
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