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Riding DDGs
I retired from the Navy back in 2005. Since then I took a short job as a security guard, bad pay and crappy hours. For 7 years I worked at the shipyard in Pascagoula where we build DDGs, LPDs, LHAs, and Coast Guard cutters. About 5 years ago I rolled over to a company that deals only with the SONAR systems on DDGs and CGs.
The best part of the whole job is the interaction with sailors and doing sea trials.
Retired Navy.....yes.
Still go to sea on war ships.......YES !!!
Hell YA !!!!!! The best of both worlds there.
I was (am) a plank owner of DDG-4 (commissioned in '61), retired in '78 and went to work for a company that built some electronics for them. As a field engineer I was tasked to go back on DDG-4 for a 3 week Test and Evaluation period (mostly at sea). They would NOT LET me have my old bunk back, had to live with the zero's.
Plankowner of DDG-86, USS Shoup here.
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