Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Best Moment Meeting my Division... after being "yanked" off shore duty to help her decom, I wasn't very happy... But as it turned out I loved the crew I was with, and it was a very pivital point in my Life...
Worst Moment This was before my Navy time, but it explames how she got the name "Willramit"
"February 10, 1986 75 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, HI USS WILLAMETTE collides with the USS JASON (AR 8) during a formation steaming exercise, killing one and injuring eight. The collision smashes WILLAMETTE's starboard bow from the rail to below the waterline. A large vertical rupture from deck to waterline on the port side of the JASON forces the ship to be towed back to port."
Chain of Command Decom Crew -- if any of you guys are ever in Italy, look me up, we'll have a cafe...
Other Memories General Characteristics: Awarded: April 11, 1978 Keel laid: August 4, 1980 Launched: July 18, 1981 Commissioned: December 18, 1982 Decommissioned: April 30, 1999 Builder: Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, LA Propulsion system: two 600psi Boilers (Automated Steam) Propellers: one Length: 700 feet (213.4 meters) Beam: 88 feet (26.8 meters) Draft: 32 feet (9.7 meters) Displacement: approx. 37,000 tons Speed: 19 knots Capacity: 150,000 barrels of fuel oil or aviation fuel and several tons of additional goods Aircraft: none, but helicopter platform Armament: two 20mm Phalanx CIWS Crew:15 officers and 215 enlisted