I steamed with the New Jersey battle group in late 1983 onboard the USS Milwaukee . We were staioned off the coast of Beirut and provided fuel, ammunition, and stores to the other ships in the area. The projectile cans for the 16" rounds are huge, we had hundreds of EMPTY ones onboard at 1 point during the cruise. I guess they were shooting the big guns on the BB, but at the time they didn't tell us what was going on around us. Our news was daily meaasge traffic of 1 or 2 paragraph stories from the AP.
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