I'll be on the Iowa all day Saturday, and I have a ticket for a brief tour a1300~1330 of one of the three ships here for Navy Days.
The ships arrived Tuesday morning around 0900, and were graced with:
The USS Halsey, DDG-97
The USS Bunker Hill, CG-52
and
The USS Cape St. George, CG-71
Here's some video courtesy of WABC, Channel 7:
And here's the story on the ABC website.
Between tinkering away on the Supra, fixing my wife's granddaughter's laptop (it "self upgraded" to Windows 10 on her!), AND doing research on proximity fuzes for a planned exhibit on the Iowa (hey, they're "radio related"!), I totally forgot this was coming up this weekend!
The Iowa was closed on Tuesday for filming, and when I woke up Wednesday morning, I was rather ill, so I didn't go in for my usual Radio Room shift.
Had a 48-hour stomach bug that knocked me for a loop, but I'm back to normal now.
SO......I'm taking my camera with me, but I think they have a "No Camera" policy on the ships; I'll have to read what the ticket says.
At least I should get some good shots from the pier and from the Iowa.
Admiral Yamamoto infamously said "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a man with a rifle behind every blade of grass."
And so it should be, a nation of riflemen....
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