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Mathew Anthony Dymek served on the USS Pringle as a Radar Technician in the Plotting Room, he's currently living in the Philadelphia PA. area
Mat on  "lonesailor.org"  (off-site link)

   
   "My job was radar maintenance so I was in the Plotting Room  during General Quarters.  I had to know how to keep the radar transmitter and other equipment going.  I also had to have at least 200% of all the replacement parts on hand.

   Working in the Plotting Room, I knew a lot of things I wasn’t allowed to talk about, like the frequency of the magnetron, I had to swear not to reveal that to anyone.  Also, I heard people talking about the next invasion of the next battle or conflict that we were headed to.  That information wasn’t generally known by the crew.  The Captain sometimes called me in and asked me to mingle with the crew, and kinda relax them, help keep their confidence up.

   After the ship went down, Hal Yearwood was in a life raft with me. Both of us were in pretty bad shape.  I’m not sure which ship picked us up, I was semi-conscious at that time, but I know it wasn’t the USS Hobson.