Blog: Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else

The USS Merrill (DD-976), my second ship (where I spent the remaining ten months of my second enlistment), was home-based in San Diego. And it was the testing platform for the Tomahawk cruise missile. According to Wikipedia, the Merrill is no more--"sunk as target NE of Hawaii in 2003." Yikes! My first ship, the USS Lockwood (FF-1064), was recycled, says Wiki. Well, that's good. Very green. I approve. The Lockwood is pictured in the previous post, along with me on it. Save for the photo showing me on deck--that's aboard the now-sunken Merrill. [...]

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