My understanding is they are FF(training) since they are TAR augmented. Mk13 may have been removed since they do alot of LEO duty now. I haven't been around the real Navy since 1997, stuck with the brown shoes now....yeah it's hard, but I've learned to speak slowly and use the really big Crayons to explain things:biggrin:
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Found a pretty informative site:
The Naval Institute guide to the ... - Google Books
Things have definately changed with todays LCS's and other styles. DDG's don't even look the same We deliver to them for sea trials and such.
The Naval Institute guide to the ... - Google Books
Things have definately changed with todays LCS's and other styles. DDG's don't even look the same We deliver to them for sea trials and such.
That makes sense, since most of that class have been moved to the NRF (Naval Reserve Fleet)
What are you doing in the brown shoe navy???
That site is more strange than informative. I found it strange they start talking about DE's, then jump to the new class of Littoral Combat ships, then jump into amphibs and seems to flow into endless Aux classes. They didn't eve talk about the main combatants.
I use a series of other sites that are both official and unofficial that deal with EVERY class of combatant and talk in depth about every ship of every class, their individual history and fate.
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Man you navy guys can keep all of that. I don't think I have the sea legs to handle it, haha.
Retired on my only shore duty (recruiting don't count), and became civil service(DON) doing the same thing..SAMI and moving ordnance around. People that have never experienced tin cans don't believe actually walking on bulkheads. one jump from one deck to another, chair races in berthing, or tying yourself in your rack to sleep. Good times (when you're young)
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very cool Dave....
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I served aboard the Boone(FFG-28) from 98 to 01. Currently with an Expeditionary Command(1 more month left) then it's off to NRD Millington, TN. Should be interesting to say the least. Found some old pics of the Boone when we still had the "Single Arm bandit". Enjoy...
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She has a Facebook page if you already don't know. There's a good bunch of folks that served aboard her from all years. I've been able to keep contact with a few of my brothers. I'm currently serving with a brother from the Boone during that timeframe. It's a very small Navy.
Here's a neat place you can register and see all other crew members, and stay in touch. It's a very heavilly used crew registry. Oh, and it's free. 
http://www.navybuddies.com/
Boone for example:
http://www.navybuddies.com/crewlist/search.php?formid=searchform
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Boone for example:
http://www.navybuddies.com/crewlist/search.php?formid=searchform
Just a 90? Not far probably. Something like a few lengths, maybe 3-4thousand feet. Maybe less.
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Not my boat, but the best emergency blow picture I could find. This the USS Oklahoma City
Here's the only boat I've been stationed to so far. USS Alaska SSBN 732
Doing what we do
Here's the only boat I've been stationed to so far. USS Alaska SSBN 732
Doing what we do
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That's just a few months after I got off the boat in Norfolk for shore duty. Took her from Bangor, WA to Norfolk and almost all the way through the refuel/overhaul. Back from Cuba in a couple months then a year of shore duty and on to another sub!
My first ship, USS Proteus AS19 on the left, in Guam. My second ship, USS White Sands ARD(BS)20 400 miles from the Azores. We were the support ship that carried the Trieste ll around. In '69 we were diving and getting pictures of the USS Scorpion SSN589, after she was sank.
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Cool stuff.
Originally a ship of the FULTON - class, the USS PROTEUS was commissioned as a diesel sub tender on January 31, 1944. From 1959-60, the PROTEUS was overhauled and reconfigured to service FBM submarines. During this overhaul her hull was sliced through, cutting the ship in half, and a forty-four-foot plug weighting 500 tons was added to the hull. This new section became the missile magazine.
Until 1964, the PROTEUS was assigned to SUBRON 14 at Holy Loch, Scotland, and to SUBRON 16 at Rota, Spain. From 1964 on, PROTEUS was assigned to SUBRON 15 at Apra Harbor, Guam.
Decommissioned on July 11, 1992, the PROTEUS was stricken from the Navy list in September 1992. However, in 1994 the PROTEUS was re-instated as IX 518 serving as berthing ship for overhaul crews at Bremerton, Wash. That last assignment ended in 1999, when IX 518 was retired and stricken for the last time. PROTEUS was later sold to Esco Marine, Brownsville, Tx., for scrapping. Scrapping was completed in early 2008.
Not such a glorious end though.
Originally a ship of the FULTON - class, the USS PROTEUS was commissioned as a diesel sub tender on January 31, 1944. From 1959-60, the PROTEUS was overhauled and reconfigured to service FBM submarines. During this overhaul her hull was sliced through, cutting the ship in half, and a forty-four-foot plug weighting 500 tons was added to the hull. This new section became the missile magazine.
Until 1964, the PROTEUS was assigned to SUBRON 14 at Holy Loch, Scotland, and to SUBRON 16 at Rota, Spain. From 1964 on, PROTEUS was assigned to SUBRON 15 at Apra Harbor, Guam.
Decommissioned on July 11, 1992, the PROTEUS was stricken from the Navy list in September 1992. However, in 1994 the PROTEUS was re-instated as IX 518 serving as berthing ship for overhaul crews at Bremerton, Wash. That last assignment ended in 1999, when IX 518 was retired and stricken for the last time. PROTEUS was later sold to Esco Marine, Brownsville, Tx., for scrapping. Scrapping was completed in early 2008.
Not such a glorious end though.
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A very long carrier for ARD-20:
Laid down, 20 December 1943, at Pacific Bridge Co., Alameda, CA.
Launched in early-1944
Placed in service as USS ARD-20, 31 March 1944, LCDR. Gutav Jones, USNR, in command
During World War II ARD-20 served at: Seeadler Harbor, at Manus in the Admiralty Islands, 12 August 1944 to 16 April 1945 Morotai from 29 April 1945 to 24 July 1945 and Manicani Island in the Philippines from July 1945 to 25 February 1947 Towed to San Pedro, via Guam and Pearl Harbor, placed out of service, 7 October 1947
Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Pedro, Group
Withdrawn from reserve in October 1965
Modernized and converted to a Bathyscaph Support Auxiliary Repair Dock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Placed in service as ARD(BS)-20, 14 September 1966, assigned to Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet
Named White Sands (ARD-20), 9 March 1968
From 1968 White Sands supported the deep submergence vehicle Trieste, at Undersea Weapons Center near San Clemente Island, CA.
White Sands with Trieste participated in the search for the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) lost near the Azores
Returned to San Diego, 7 October 1969
Reclassified Auxiliary Deep Submergence Support Ship AGDS-1, 1 August 1973
Placed out of service in the summer of 1974
Struck from the Naval Register in September 1974
Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in 1974
Laid down, 20 December 1943, at Pacific Bridge Co., Alameda, CA.
Launched in early-1944
Placed in service as USS ARD-20, 31 March 1944, LCDR. Gutav Jones, USNR, in command
During World War II ARD-20 served at: Seeadler Harbor, at Manus in the Admiralty Islands, 12 August 1944 to 16 April 1945 Morotai from 29 April 1945 to 24 July 1945 and Manicani Island in the Philippines from July 1945 to 25 February 1947 Towed to San Pedro, via Guam and Pearl Harbor, placed out of service, 7 October 1947
Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Pedro, Group
Withdrawn from reserve in October 1965
Modernized and converted to a Bathyscaph Support Auxiliary Repair Dock at Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Placed in service as ARD(BS)-20, 14 September 1966, assigned to Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet
Named White Sands (ARD-20), 9 March 1968
From 1968 White Sands supported the deep submergence vehicle Trieste, at Undersea Weapons Center near San Clemente Island, CA.
White Sands with Trieste participated in the search for the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) lost near the Azores
Returned to San Diego, 7 October 1969
Reclassified Auxiliary Deep Submergence Support Ship AGDS-1, 1 August 1973
Placed out of service in the summer of 1974
Struck from the Naval Register in September 1974
Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in 1974
