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2. I was there for the christening and then the commissioning of the Zumwalt

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Mon May 13, 2019, 05:02 AM

May 2019

There was so much high tech stuff on the ship, the crew was already apprehensive about the fact that not every bit of the high tech hardware was operational be the time it sailed out of Baltimore. If you ever get to tour the inside of it, there are computer screen conoles in such profusion, you might think you were in a video games parlor.

As those 155mm guns were one of the ship's main bits of weaponry, there will be some serious fallout in the Navy due to this. I feel sorry for Zumwalt's daughter, Ann, who put so much time and effort into following this ship from start to commissioning this ship that bears her dad's name. She has been a good friend of ours for years, and she was so proud of her dad's legacy being tied up in this ship and its 2 twins.

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