modeltrains
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Dad and Grandad were Tin Can sailors. During 60s, 70s, Cold War years Dad was on several remodeled WW2 leftovers, generally FRAM'ed Sumners and Gearings: of all the different ship types he was on he said he had the most fun on the DDs.If all the antimissle stuff on all the ships don't work, ask the escorting tin cans what their final mission is........
Mom says that at the graduation from Destroyer School in Newport RI the Admiral said outright something like that he wouldn't pretend, so, ladies, your husbands are expendable. And, actually, she appreciated the honesty, she's not a player of games which don't come in boxes.
There is a tale told of Dad of one day where he had had his fill of a Soviet DD screwing around with their formation, enough is enough. So ... he ordered flank speed and steer straight for their bridge.
Given their relative motion a collision was not going to happen but the view of an old Gearing with a huge bow wave and throwing a bit of a rooster tail coming right at them apparently was a wee bit unnerving to the Soviets. Go Navy! Go Dad!