So, why is there a tent over the forward 5-inch gun mount? Or am I just seeing things? All sorts of crap on the stern decks as well. hmmm
..good eyesight for an Old Seadog....! that picture is probably not a current one... too much clutter on the after deck area for it to be setting out to sea; certainly not a part of the Special Sea and Anchor Detail... and that "tent" over that forward 5-inch mount IS interesting. Probably something erected over it when it was in the yards for re-fitting....? Anyway, God speed USS COLE....! if we hadn't had such a spineless SOB for a President at that time, the COLE probably would not have lost the 17 men and women who were killed outright and the 100 or so of the COLE's crew who were injured...... whatta scumbag....!!