led me to discover the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. There are kind of two versions. One is unofficial and hosted over at www.hazegray.org. I find the official version (from the US Navy) much cooler. Why? They have the Ship History/Command Operations Reports for some currently commissioned ships. As luck would have it, they have the command history for the ship I was on during the years I was on it. Check it out! My years were 1994-1997. There were some exciting things that happened during those years. For example, I never knew (or perhaps I forgot) the name of the ship that we helped to keep from sinking in March 1996. But it's right there in black and white (p. 5 of 29 by the file and page 4 of the report). I thought the availability of these reports was excellent. It will be cool when all the ships are complete. I don't miss that haze gray beast. And I might have mentioned it before, but it would have been an amazing chance to take the trip around the world since the GW is now home-ported over in Japan. But......not amazing enough to have stayed in.
Peace out, y'all!
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