i was on the hull dd945,san diego,from oct 1959 til my discharge , july 1963
many taiwan straits duty days! time in kaoshung! remember a bm came back,climed rat line ,fwd,took fosule wathes m1 and started shooting,the engineering office was oow,shot in side,pow was , ist class?,shot in leg,which he lost later,took a .45 to put him down,i was on watch in fwd fireroom,gen quaters was sounded,the main hatch came out at sickbay,the bad guy was in a litter,blood everwhere
got many more stories!
terry
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Wow the worst thing we ever had happen was an MOOW shot himself to get out of the Navy. Went behind MT 53 and shot himself in the side put a hell of a gouge in the side of the mount.