USS Wisconsin BB-64 Desert Storm

[@Albendova666]

Just found the channel. I was a GMG onboard MSO 455 & 438, the ESTEEM was my home ship while in the gulf just before the war. After gunnery school I hoped for a BB but MSO duty was second best unique duty for a sailor really. Thanks for the channel and kickin ass.

[@DrunkenSailorBrewBBQ]

We worked close with the MSO's in the Gulf as we spent all our time up north. Got some great pics of them in action. Brave sailors. I was in gun school at Great Lakes when turret 2 on the Iowa blew. Every GM out of the next 2-3 classes ended up billeted there. Sad to see the BB's go. Glad I got to go to war with them & seem them in action. Pure awesome.

[@PookDaDJ]

I loved Capt Bill as our skipper on the MOB!

[@dougm5697]

Yesterday I had a man onboard the WisKy who had old videos of him on the last "tiger cruise" down the east coast from Fleet Week in NYC. I am trying to help him upload some of the videos to the Nauticus site or maybe to here? I believe his name is Dean.

[@kuehnel16]

Fire and Brimstone 🔥🔥💥

[@randallbeasley646]

I saw a picture of the Big Wisky in Norfolk. There was no CIWS.

[@DrunkenSailorBrewBBQ]

Doesn't really need it now, does she?

[@hisaddle]

Maybe used those expensive things on current ships that need them? I would guess that first.

[@hisaddle]

I was on the Iowa 4 dys ago, had the crisis. I asked NJ channel about theirs. Navy took theirs at decommission and gave them older ones. So NJ has some.

[@MrBucidart]

At 12:38, nice job.

[@DrunkenSailorBrewBBQ]

Noticed that eh? Battle of Khafji.

[@hisaddle]

Didn't the Whiskey technically fire the first shot of Desert Storm? A long range missile.......

[@DrunkenSailorBrewBBQ]

She did fire the 1st Tomahawk of the First Gulf War (as I like to call it). To be fair, a whole bunch came out of the gulf the morning of 17-Jan-91. I was on the fantail of the Mobile Bay at 0200 with a fellow gunner when it all started. We saw blaze orange glows appearing all around us, then streaks of fire going into the sky & heading north. A minute or 2 later we heard the call for General Quarters, and then it was game on.

[@dougm5697]

I have it on good authority, that due to a computer glitch in the WisKy's Tomahawk computers, she was NOT the first to fire...and CAPT Bill was livid!

[@DrunkenSailorBrewBBQ]

@@dougm5697 I've heard that as well, putting The Princeton CG-59 as the first to fire. Although I'm not 100% on that. What I am 100% on is not wanting to be on the receiving end of Captain Bill's ire...😬

[@dougbyrne8616]

MM3 Doug Byrne #2 engine room

[@THOMAS81Z]

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