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

Your blogger, around 1984, and an Electronic Warfare Operator 3rd Class aboard the USS Merrill (DD-976) . The Merrill, sunk as a target in 2003, was the testing platform for the Tomahawk Cruise Missile. It's where I served the final ten months of my eight-year Navy stint--most of that time, we were in dry dock. And here's the weird thing. I don't believe in ESP, but ... a weird thing happened just prior to receiving my orders for the Merrill (which I'd pressed to get, since I wanted a culture-shock recovery period between my Japan service [...]