07-11-2003 07:29									#1
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I find myself pathetically misty eyed today. As most of you know, I was in the US Navy for 5 years. I went to my former ship's Website and discovered that it was to be decommissioned on the 12th of December.

Suprisingly enough, I almost cried. I never fully realized how much that ship affected my life, even almost 10 years later.

I really wish I had found out sooner, and I would have scraped the money together to be there for the decommissioning ceremony. Witch is being addressed by the first Captain I ever had.

no ack here.

	07-11-2003 07:31									#2
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Oh.

	07-11-2003 07:43									#3
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I didn't think anyone would care. Just had to share it with someone.

	07-11-2003 07:49									#4
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Well I...feel sorry that your sad

	07-11-2003 07:51									#5
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It is amazing how inanimate objects and places effect us when they change. Sorry you feel bad.

	07-11-2003 07:53									#6
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hey, it was decommisioned on my birthday!!!

	07-11-2003 07:57									#7
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This is a picture of the ship when I visited Hong Kong in 1991:

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	07-11-2003 07:58									#8
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And at my favorite Liberty Port of all time, Longview, Washington:

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	07-11-2003 08:03									#9
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In honour of your ship

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That is kinda sad. A place of thousands of memories, gone.

	07-11-2003 08:37									#11
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Yeah, it was my home for 3.5 years. Also it was my transportation around the world.

	07-11-2003 08:41									#12
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which sailor are you in the 2nd picture??

	07-11-2003 08:54									#13
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Sorry for your loss, Tuber.

	07-11-2003 08:57									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us which sailor are you in the 2nd picture??

As a matter of fact, I am one of the sailors on the fantail, that's the back of the ship. There just isn't a way to point out which one, but I am, in fact, in that picture.

	07-11-2003 08:59									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Sorry for your loss, Tuber.

Another thing the Navy did for me was let me see the hometown or country of quite a few Apolyton posters.

Chicago, San Diego, Tijuana, Hawaii, Australia-Perth/Freemantle and Sydney, mainland China.

Thanks Skanky.

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EDIT: To the post before that one. Damn X-posts.

	07-11-2003 09:05									#17
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quote: In honour of your ship

You take those rotten gardening tools away from this thread!

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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns EDIT: To the post before that one. Damn X-posts.

I figured as much.

ACK!

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quote: Originally posted by Datajack Franit You take those rotten gardening tools away from this thread!

I know a really tough army guy whos been converted to gardening His name is Guy.

Anyway...Tuber, what were you ever doing in Utah then?! The Navy didn't send you this way for sure....Right?

	07-11-2003 09:39									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar I know a really tough army guy whos been converted to gardening His name is Guy. Anyway...Tuber, what were you ever doing in Utah then?! The Navy didn't send you this way for sure....Right?

I was born there.



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	07-11-2003 10:09									#21
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A fine looking vessel.

	07-11-2003 10:18									#22
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http://www.elliot.navy.mil/

At least she's going into the 'ready reserve', so it isn't 'the end'.

	07-11-2003 12:10									#23
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So... was that where you first played "Hide the Tuber"?

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grrr...

	07-11-2003 12:46									#25
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quote: I was born there.

No comment

	07-11-2003 12:48									#26
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I figured out which one's Tuberski...

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	07-11-2003 12:51									#27
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USS ELLIOT (DD-967) and the Soviet carrier Minsk during surveillance operations against the Minsk Task Group in 1979.

WTG Tuberski's ship !!!

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	07-11-2003 13:55									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Tuberski I find myself pathetically misty eyed today. As most of you know, I was in the US Navy for 5 years. I went to my former ship's Website and discovered that it was to be decommissioned on the 12th of December. Suprisingly enough, I almost cried. I never fully realized how much that ship affected my life, even almost 10 years later. I really wish I had found out sooner, and I would have scraped the money together to be there for the decommissioning ceremony. Witch is being addressed by the first Captain I ever had. no ack here.

That's funny- well not really

I felt sad when I learned my ship was sunk and is on the bottome of the Atlantic ocean

http://ussguamlph9.org/destination.html

okay it was kind of a piece of ****, and probably deserved to be on the bottom of the ocean. Yet I kind of grew attached to this rustbucket.



We were also known for an accident in Barcelona involving a liberty boat taking people from and to the ship. 49 people were killed.

http://navysite.de/lph/lph9.htm

The final fate of my ship:

	07-11-2003 14:02									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Tuberski I didn't think anyone would care. Just had to share it with someone.

I sympathize. As my above post shows. I was sad when I learned from a website what happenned to my ship.

I already knew it was decommissioned- as I was the one who decommissioned it along with the rest of the crew.

	07-11-2003 14:10									#30
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The other ship I was on before the Guam was the USS Enterprise. I was there during the refueling and complex overhaul. That was quite an experience. Decomissioning the ship would be too much work, so they decided to keep the ship going for another 15 to 20 years even with an obsolete engineering plant design.

though I do commend the nuclear physics guys on designing a better core. The original core in 1962 only lasted like 5 years. So even though these cores are the same size, the boron and uranium is distributed more efficiently and these core may get 20 years out of them- we have 8 reactors.

This ship was a pain in the ass when it came to getting reliable hot water. Cold showers suck!!!!!



oh, that isn't one of our better pictures . That was a Vietnam war era picture. Not as bad as the USS Forrestal fire, but still pretty bad.

A better picture of my first ship. This is a 60's- actually it is probably 70's (as it has Tomcats on deack)- era picture. the Island (superstructure) is much bigger now. It has underwent extensive modifications.



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