![]() Listening to the one MC the captain, the devastation. ![]() Everyone was evacuated from magazines and we were all told to go to the flight deck area on the fantail. I only had a set of sound powered phones. I can remember seeing smoke, smelling smoke, and being scared out of my mind. ![]() My gentle quarter station was magazine about 52. I got bored turn my back and was walking away when I heard the explosion behind me. I remember them shooting flashless powder. I was standing topside on the O2 level watching the gun turret shoot. I ran the armory from 1988 to 1990.Īpis a day that will always be etched in my memory. On board the IOWA I was in gun mount 53 and 51. I reported aboard May 1987, and immediately we set out to see the world.įrom 1987 to 1989 I saw more of the world than my dad did in all of his 20 years of service. I chose the USS Iowa BB 61 Because it was a gunner's dream. Passed B.E.E and gunner school with grades high enough to pick where I wanted to be stationed. ![]() Immediately afterward I went to gunner A school in Great Lakes Illinois. I graduated from boot camp in July of 1986. I went to boot camp in San Diego, California. I joined the Navy in 1986 right after graduating from high school. ![]()
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