One of my squid photos

[Kurtz]

I took this one myself just off the coast of Beirut in 1982, the gunboat between our destroyers is Israeli. They were ticked off that we were escorting the PLO out. So were we actually...

 

[dwarven1]

I took this one myself just off the coast of Beirut in 1982, the gunboat between our destroyers is Israeli. They were ticked off that we were escorting the PLO out. So were we actually...

1: Thanks for your service, Savage110.
2: Rather than escorting the PLO out, I'd rather that you had taken them out.

 

[JonJ]

I have a friend at work that was on the Nashville out there in '82 too.

 

[Kurtz]

The Nashville was an Oiler if I'm not mistaken?

 

[JonJ]

The Nashville was an Oiler if I'm not mistaken?

Nope, an LPD. The LPD-13 an Amphibious Transport. He worked the flight deck.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Nice Savage. Thanks for your service.