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What Guns do You Have?


Jackofalltrades

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On 8/13/2016 at 2:57 PM, Davidson Deac II said:

I think I have you all beat.  I once got to fire these

 

 

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We used to track the 16" rounds on the AEGIS radar as they flew downrange. Matter of fact I was OOD on Bunker Hill trailing Missouri one day when they said, "Coming right to..." and instead turned left and almost cut us in half. My Skipper comes on the bridge, "Senior Chief, what's up?" as he turned to look out the starboard bridge wing to see a battleship coming right at us and I'm at flank doing 32 knots to get out of the way. Skipper walks over and calmly calls the Captain on Missouri, "Al, what the hell are you guys doing over there?" Scary then, funny later... 

And I was inside a lot of the JAG investigation into the Iowa accident in 1989. What a mess... in more ways than one. 

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