I was almost stationed there on the Blue Ridge in ‘93.
I wonder how different my life would be if I had not gotten married to my first ex (The Demon) and had my orders changed to San Diego.
I was ‘in and out’ of there late 50s and homeported from 60-62.
Not too many ships at that time, don’t believe a carrier was homeported BUT the SHTF for ‘regulars’ when a bird farm showed up with all her escorts...
Good time for my LST to be out bouncing around on the high seas or hitting some of the ‘backwater’ ports of Japan and such...
Yokosuka was the main SRF with Sasebo taking some of it and then Subic Bay on the ‘other end’.
Great times for a kid right out of school...learn life real fast....HA HA