Previously Held NEC HM-0000-Hospital Corpsman
HM-3391-Nuclear Power Plant Operator
116X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare (In Training)
111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
NEC 111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
Base, Station or City Norfolk
State/Country Virginia
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USS Spruance (DD-963) Details
Hull number DD-963
USS Spruance (DD 963) shows her markedly straight lines in this photo taken at Barcelona, Spain, on April 20, 1980. The guided missile cruiser USS Wainwright (CG 28), alongside, had quite a different hull design. What both ships had in common was a stem-mounted anchor, revealing a large bow sonar dome.
Best Friends Harry NMN Watkins
Darryl Girtz
Dave O'Brian
Best Moment Std bell landing, REFTRA GTMO. Pranking IGOR in Outboard.
Worst Moment Hot gun, foul bore during quals at Vieques. Midnight offload in the rain at Yorktown.
Chain of Command CO - CDR Pat Shepherd and CDR Vern Clark XO - LCDR John Morse and LCDR Gary Roughead
Other Memories Crossing the Line ceremony enroute to Mombasa. Persian Excursion. Radar dish replacement pierside in Bahrain by crew without tech support. 2 weeks on USS MISSISSIPPI guest of /RAK Taylor. Liberty in Amsterdam with Dutch Schultz.