Best Friends Larry Flippo, David Wilson, Chris Tzafarglu, Allen Larson, Stan Prokop, Joe Cavallo
Best Moment Liberty Call My Ocean Chariot for 4 years, USS Badger FF-1071, Destroyer Squadron 25 Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was a Gallant Lady, sleek and fast, always ready for adventure on the high seas. Crew worked like a well oiled and tuned machine, often trained and always ready. She gave me good times and bad, exotic ports and fierce storms, great shipmates, and technical knowledge, and a lot of time to grow as a man and plan for a future. She was a Gallant Lady, her useful life ended as a target, a helpless hulk for a homing missile, a bobbing target to new technology, she left behind many sailors with broken hearts, memories that will outlive our lives. It's a deep dark place where your remains lie, but you live bright in our hearts and minds...Rest easy Bucky B... By Joe Cavallo