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Ben Morris
- fleetlha1@yahoo.com - E DIV -
Hello there! I have so many memories of the overgrown shoebox it will
fill a 1000 pages! But my first seeing this ship was in boot camp in San
Diego in Jan 1984. My company was at the Firefighting school. I remember
when she was bow out at the piers. I think it was Pier 8, it always seem
to be tied up there a lot. Anyways we all thought it was some kind of
funny looking carrier. How soon will I know the difference! After school
and more training courtesy of the Fireman's Apprentice school, I got my
orders to report to the ship after a 2 week leave. That night, when I
approached the brow, I had to look up, straight up and said, OMG!!!!
What a huge ship. With that began a sort of affair with the overgrown
shoebox!!!! That memory lives on to this day. I eventually did 2
Westpac's on her, then left in 87 when she went to the yards in Long
Beach, CA. I left for the East coast to catch a destroyer. |
