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Became a shell back aboard Manley .(great times)

honor to have served her along with the finest crew

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Memory tested aft all these yrs-assigned prior to comm/launch-Mrs Arleigh Burke broke champagne across bow

Years Served: 1970 – 1973…My first ship and it was a great learning experience. Made the North Atlantic cruise to Amsterdam and Copenhagen on her….and all those

I was in the first crew of plank owners & served aboard til spring of 1960. Being a new class destroyer, the navy wanted to show us off, so we made many ports, including about a month at the Rock of Gibraltar after being torn up at sea. I started in the gun gang, but spent the last two years on the signal bridge. Loved every minute of it, but 4 was enough!

I was a Plankowner on the Manley and served aboard her from the time the ships crew first assembled in
Newport R I in December 1956 until October 1958

I was on board from 1971 to I got out in 1972. I was an ht2. I first came on board in the shipyard in Philly. Then we home ported in Norfolk. I went to Gitmo twice and the North Atlantic cruise.

I went aboard in 1962 as a fireman and when I left the quaterdeck I was a BT ,also and stayed until march,I think,1969 and went to shore duty. It is good that you became a teacher and still are. My older brother was a teacher for over 40 years.We definitely need teachers,Good teachers for our kids.

I reported aboard in early 78 as a BT, went for two years then got out and returned home to Haughton, Louisiana. I graduated from LSU Shreveport in 1995 with a BA in education with a minor in mathematics, I’m still teaching to this day!