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On my first ship I started out as the Electrical Officer and then moved up to be the Combat Information Center Officer (CICO, usually pronounced 'sicko').

In 1981 I had my guys down at Dam Neck, VA for Naval Gunfire Support Training. The LT comes in one morning and says, "No training today. We have another task." "What's up sir?" "President Reagan's bringing the battleships back and we have to find the trainers."

I didn't know why we were doing this but took it in stride. It took us about 15 minutes to find the training devices in the warehouse and 45 minutes to trundle them across campus and get them up the elevator.

We plugged them in and they WORKED. They were built in the early 40s. As a reward we got to do most of our GNFS training using the MK8 Fire Control System for the Iowa-class battleships.

I volunteered to do a back-to-back sea tour if I could get orders to the Wisconsin but the answer was "no". That's my battleship story.

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It’s probly good your BB career was short. At least you weren’t on the Iowa when those geniuses tried to blow up their own 16” turret. But I’ve always been a big fan of how we used the big guns on Quadaffyducks beach positions in GW 1. The Reagan Navy was a good thing and it took the dimokrats a couple decades to screw it up. I well remember him getting the carrier Nimitz back under construction after the Peanut farmer mothballed it on the ways.