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This is USS Towers DDG-9. My second ship of four was USS Cochrane DDG-21, a Charles F. Adams class destroyer. She was a shooter out of Hawaii until 1983 when we did a homeport shift to Yokosuka. I re-enlisted for Hawaii and did all that that implies and then went to the WESTPAC as a forward deployed Sailor. Life does not get much better for an unmarried young man. Since I re-enlisted for Hawaii and they moved me, I had the option to transfer early.

I would have stayed except I had orders to teach Hospital Corpsman Class "A" School. We called it then and still call it, Corps School. The two "A" schools at both San Diego and Great Lakes where I taught was closed in 2006 I am pretty sure. Entry level Navy enlisted medical training is now at Fort Sam Houston. The tri-service arrangement could not keep up with the Navy Medical training requirements so we separated some time later and started doing our own thing again. Navy Corps School is still in Texas and is putting out young Devil Docs who perform at high levels and continue in the tradition of Sustained Superior Performance.

I got off the subject of tin cans but as always, have a Fine Navy Day.
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The ship that I picked at Service Selection was an Adams class DDG, the Conyngham DDG-17 homeported in Norfolk but between USNA and getting to the ship, the Navy decided to "decrew" her for an overhaul so I ended up going to a Precom CGN which was great for me. Much better billet with enroute schools and a definite step up technology wise.
 
I thought that once the door was locked, the portajohn was going to be tipped over but I'm glad I was wrong.
 
What the Arsenal of Democracy sounds like: Elmer Bernstein, the composer of this piece is conducting. As a poster on YT said, nothing like a composer conducting his own music...The opening theme of the Magnificent Seven:
 
The Benjamin Stoddert DDG-22 and my second ship USS Cochrane DDG-21 is in the background. Missing is DDG-20, the USS Goldsborough who with these two were frequently photographed together at sea, in port Pearl Harbor, and sadly after decommissioning awaiting their fate. All three DDGs had a storied history such as firing on the Vietnam gun line, maintaining open sea lanes in the Persian Gulf, and appearing in Hawaii based movies and TV shows. I asked the Adams class FB member who put up this picture about the whereabouts of the Goldie and he said, "That's where the photo was taken from." Well duh, that makes sense. With the USN birthday approaching and as years go by with me still missing being a member of the World's Greatest Navy, I look back on these great monuments to American greatness and am humbled knowing that I was just a small part of the chapters that make up the book of Navy presence and power projection around the world.

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The article states the red patchers have been gone for forty years but that's not true. I operated with them in the 90s. We had some on a deployment to Africa and once had a detachment set up across from my BAS doing medical coverage for a type commanders amphibious training (TCAT). We were at Onslow Beach and the LSB detachment came in after us and set up across the road. They still had the gall to put out their sign that read "First in, last out." They weren't the last out either as I made sure I was the last to leave once we reached ENDEX.

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Marines Will Be Seeing More of These Red Patches on Utility Covers. Here's Why

Marines will be seeing more of the red patches after the service reactivated 2nd Landing Support Battalion.
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13 or so Bored Soldiers (2:30)
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Did anyone else watch this entire video, expecting someone to come out at the last minute and push the PortaJohn over with everyone in it ?
 
I needed this today. My wife posted this on FB. She is at Walter Reed getting yet another skin cancer treatment. I should have taken the day off and driven her up there but she didn't want me to miss time with my kids. My kids being my students and we just finished up a good class session. What I would give though to pitch a few more rounds of BP.

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I posted this here because an Army vet w/medical experience attended to the officer who was hit by a bullet in the left cheek, just below his eye.
Kudo's to the civilians who pointed out the shooter to responding officers.

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A New Orleans police officer on patrol in the French Quarter was shot in the face by a pedicab passenger, superintendent says | CNN

A New Orleans police officer was shot in the face and another was injured Friday when a passenger in a pedicab in the French Quarter fired at their vehicle, the city's police superintendent said.
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My dad's basic training photo I suppose. He spent nine years in the Air Force and like so many others I heard say through the years, wished he had stayed for twenty.


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"Hey 1st. Sergeant, Good morning!"
"We do more by 9AM..."

 
One of these years I will eat and drink at Tun Tavern at the museum. Every time I’ve been there it’s been packed.
 
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