ProudOleMilitaryMan wrote:
My old XO on the Cimarron in Hawaii got to be CO of a minesweeper.
Somehow the CINCPAC thought it was due to decom, they had that baby
stripped to the bare nothings befoer SECNAV got wind of it and fired
up a ton of butts. Seems that ship wasn't on the decom list, and the
decom list hadn't even been approved yet.
That was 1980-81 timeframe if my ancient brain can remember right.

I've known that to happen with tin cans too; at least, not the exact
same thing but pretty close... for example swapping equipment around
from ship to ship when the INSURV board was due. Meanwhile the ship's
repair facility was out playing golf and bartering away warehouses full
of stuff.

DSK