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Author: Dan Smithyman, Southeast Regional Maintenance Center Public Affairs

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From High School Friends to Navy Chiefs

Sept. 17, 2015

Juan Chumpitaz and Jerieric (pronounced "Jerry-Eric") Hall Pringle met in grade school, the summer before sixth grade to be exact. They can't remember exactly how they met, but think it may have been a fight.