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Yea I heard that one too. She was unofficially in and out of reserve for a few years. Reserves don't get the same upkeep dollars either. It just burns me that two actually Captains {JFK's and KH's} were made scapegoats for obvious Pentagon level mistakes.

While they were in Mayport, and still trying to put the ship back together, the CO put them into a weeklong fast cruise.

Some of the wives were picketing at the front gate.

The one and only time I've ever heard of that happening.

While they were in Mayport, and still trying to put the ship back together, the CO put them into a weeklong fast cruise. Some of the wives were picketing at the front gate. The one and only time I've ever heard of that happening.

The Pentagon sent them out. Unless it was a matter of a threat to the ship {weather, attack, etc} he couldn't order a leave port on his own. From what I've heard when it flunked INSURV they should have taken it up to Portsmouth then and there to get the problems resolved.

We were ordered unscheduled underway one time by the Captain by the Captain. We were up in Yugoslavia in 1977-78 anchored off Dubrovnik for liberty. I was a close port and we were less than a mile off shore it looked like. Shortest run to fleet landing I can ever remember about 10 minutes maybe.

A bad straight line storm hit us and we started dragging anchor. It was so bad we had to send the boats to the shore and leave the crews. The Captain came over the 1MC yelling get the ship underway and get it underway now. He was giving EOT orders too. In about a minute the fantail was boiling while deck houses and anchor were coming up. It was a close one and that was back when we carried nuke warheads. I think a post WW2 record for getting a carrier underway was set that day.