Destroyer USS The Sullivans Damaged After Missile Explodes After Launch

[Rockin Robbins]

That hits kind of close to home. My son-in-law is guided missile officer aboard DDG-79 Oscar Austin. He's going to have a lot of work to do in the coming weeks, I predict! Just came in from a long deployment and my daughter is looking to spending lots of time with him. Guess that's a bit out of the question for a while....

Just goes to show that being in the military is a dangerous occupation. These guys are sharp. They'll get the problem sorted out.

One thing for sure. If these were the DDs in Taffy 3 the Japanese battleships would have been on the bottom of the ocean before they ever caught sight of a single DDG. These destroyers against those battleships would be a complete mismatch in the destroyers' favor. That's how much things have changed.