Ship's Log
USS New Jersey BB-62: The Battleship That Wouldn't Stay Retired
USS New Jersey BB-62 fought in three wars across five decades, firing her 16-inch guns in Vietnam and off Lebanon in 1983 before her final decommissioning in 1991.
The 1MC: Voice of the Ship
The 1MC is the Navy's shipwide announcing circuit, preceded by the boatswain's pipe, carrying everything from general quarters to reveille. Every sailor who served remembers its sound.
The Homecoming: What Waits on the Pier
Homecoming is the moment a deployed ship pulls into port and seven months of distance dissolves on the pier. The traditions of manning the rail and the wait that follows.
USS Bataan LHD-5: The 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Deployment
USS Bataan LHD-5 carried the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit into the northern Persian Gulf for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, then shifted to humanitarian relief after Baghdad fell.
USS Chancellorsville CG-62: The 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Deployment
USS Chancellorsville CG-62 provided continuous Aegis air defense during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, part of one of the largest naval concentrations assembled since Desert Storm.
USS Baton Rouge SSN-689: Cold War Patrols and the 1992...
USS Baton Rouge SSN-689 patrolled the Cold War Barents Sea tracking Soviet submarines, then collided with a Russian Sierra-class boat near the Kola Peninsula in February 1992.