[JoeFromSidney]

I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the tin cans. In the summer of 1949, my two weeks active duty cruise was on the Hank, DD 702. You could still see where the battle scars had been patched up.

Went off to college that fall and tried to sign up for Navy ROTC. Couldn't pass the eye test. Air Force ROTC was in its first year on campus and didn't yet have an eye test. They took me. I graduated with a Air Force commission, and made a career of it.

[NorthMountain]

Your ship, in "dazzle" paint. Did she still have that paint job in '49?