Our best ship handler was the warrant officer in charge of our division. He put the ship under the Kennedy’s flight deck once. The folks on the carrier went ape shit.
CIC always announced the ETA over the 1MC for the inbound Russian bombers. We used to wave at them.
We waved, he gave a thumbs up. In 6 years on that boat, we trained the 5/54 inch guns on two ships. North Korea gunboats that were harassing us after the South Korean president was assassinated and we steamed across the 39th parallel in the dead of night about 20 miles off their coast and a Taiwanese destroyer that was getting froggy for some reason.