Naval History & Heritage Command

I was on the DESRON TWO Staff embarked in DEWEY for two weeks in 1989 when he was in command.

I have many fond memories of CDR Coleman. He was the last Cpt I served under onboard the Dewey. She was a great ship with a great crew.
PC3 Latimer

Thanks Dave for sharing your thoughts -- any other shipmates there?

I had the pleasure of meeting him at a book signing at an air show a couple of years before he past away. I still think of it as the best air show I've been to because of it, he was a true Hero in my eyes. I was 17 at the time.

Thanks for sharing your story Vince!

I have military family, We all need to support our troops! This site is very interesting. But does Anyone understand military time? I could use some help. :)

Barbara you want to go to http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/a/militarytime.htm

@Mike the Wisconsin is available for tours: http://www.nauticus.org/wisconsin.html

The Shangri-La was scrapped in the late 80's or early 90's.

The Wisconsin is preserved in an attractive setting at the Nauticus Maritime Museum in downtown Norfolk. Seeing the bow of this ship is amazing. A picture is available from my trip to Norfolk and the current USS Iwo Jima on:

http://www.legionpost50ny.com/2009_05_Fleet_Week_norfolk.html

Great article and it quotes LCDR Brooks of USS Wayne E Meyer. I especially liked the quote from RADM Mahon
"Every surface warship officer in every navy in the world would love to command an Arleigh Burke."

There is nothing better to let a sailor know the power of the sea than the destroyer. More than once I needed to lash myself into the rack to keep from being tost out onto the deck in my sleep, but also at the same time, there is nothing better to rock you to sleep.

Let the "Tin-Cans" sail on.

AMEN!

RPCM Dyksterhouse. I have this on my calender. I will do an appropriate collection for you here. Please tell your facebook group to join our group. -- Regards Robert.

IF YOU ARE NOT A BT YOU ARE ONLY HERE FOR THE RIDE! HOOYAH BT'S!!!!!!!!!

I served as a Bt on the uss shangri-la cva 38 64 to 68, I can remember every 600 operating hours we had to climb inside after it cooled down and do fire sides.that is scrapping and cleaning all the tube surfaces exposed to the oil that was used for fuel. every 1200 hours operation we did watersides. disassemble all the parts in the steamdrum such ... See Moreas scrubbers, cyclone seperators, baffle plates. the babcock/wilcox m type bolier had 1400 generating tubes each one had to be cleaned down, and then up from the mud drum.then we had to remove all hand hole plugs and clean seats renew gaskets, reset and hydro test the boiler. it was dirty ,and hot! we worked very hard. doing pms on all auxillary equipment such as pumps, force draft blowers, valves etc. We had fun when they were shooting planes off
the flight deck as everytime one went off the flight deck the recharging of the catapult would drain the steam ,and our burner men would race to see how fast they could get the burners fired off ,and the steam back up to 600 psi, at 850 degree suPerheated steam!! THANKS RICHARD!

... and of course...
http://www.johnericsson.org/

Have you guys anything to do with this? (Dis you know about this site?)

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/

RBK

To mention what a great decision that was seem a sort of understatement.

Why no PICTURES? I went to a couple of receptions there while you guys were putting the place together. It is an absolutely amazing place!

There were no pictures in this news story. However, the photos of the event are in our Facebook photo photo album

It's curious that they picked the 70s to call a cold war period when there was a hot war going on in Vietnam for nearly the first half of the decade. We who served in the late 50s and early 60s, before Vietnam became a problem, witnessed the cold war at its iciest.