Still finding pictures of the Seattle trip in early April. Hopefully, I will get both Seattle and Charlotte out of my system before heading to Las Vegas during Thanksgiving week. Today is Veteran's Day. It is special to me because I served in the United States Navy from 1990 to 1994. I was on the USS Kidd (DDG-993) and the USS Truxtun (CGN-35). I have no hero stories, I was a Yeoman Third Class and was Desert Storm in 1991 onboard KIDD I typed my way through that and another six-month deployment onboard Truxtun. Nothing big.
Anyway, don't want to bore you with my sea stories, when I was in Seattle I took a trip over to Bremerton (where I was stationed for two years) and they have the USS Turner Joy (DD-951) docked there as a museum. USS Turner Joy began her service in 1960 and was retired in 1982:
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| USS Turner Joy |
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| One of the five-inch guns |
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| The Forecastle five-inch gun |
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A five inch shell |
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| The mess decks |
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| Part of the turbines that powered the ship |
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| Part of the Combat Information Center (CIC) |
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| The helm and lee helm on the bridge |
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| Part of berthing |
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| A better view of berthing |
yes, so much gratitude to all of our veterans!
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