And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I spent 10 days of my last 2 weeks in the Navy on her. I and my 2nd class both STS/SS wanted toe experience the skimmer version of ASW and we did an exercise with an old US nuke and Canadian frigate.Ships company affectionilly called her USS Oilslick. May 1980.
Now THAT is a tin can doing its special dance. I did 3-1/2 years on Southerland, DD 743 and that could be her in the background. Love the term "skimmer version of ASW". Bubble heads were always fair game in that rivalry if we didn't have a bird farm to pick on.
Patrolling that vast reaches of Neptune's domain - then.
ReplyDeleteNow, a museum to same.
I spent 10 days of my last 2 weeks in the Navy on her. I and my 2nd class both STS/SS wanted toe experience the skimmer version of ASW and we did an exercise with an old US nuke and Canadian frigate.Ships company affectionilly called her USS Oilslick. May 1980.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT is a tin can doing its special dance. I did 3-1/2 years on Southerland, DD 743 and that could be her in the background. Love the term "skimmer version of ASW". Bubble heads were always fair game in that rivalry if we didn't have a bird farm to pick on.
DeleteThe seas aren't too heavy. Been on the north Atlantic in January and February.
ReplyDeleteGreat pic though.