[shove_it]

“I was on a destroyer off the coast of Cuba.”

Were you there a year earlier? I was sweating it out at ground zero, Ft. Myer, ANC, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[BuffaloJack]

Almost. I enlisted a few weeks after the Cuban Missile Crisis started, got boot camp out of the way and was on a DD in the Caribbean before the spring of 1963.