In my artifical and symbolic memory, I believe I was stationed onboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 because of the day it was commissioned. The 1/8/1966 commissioning date makes me think of how I was 6617 days old on 4/14/1977.
From 3/3/1959 to 4/14/1977 is: 6617 days
6617
66-1-8 (1966 January 8)
I was getting the sense there were some clues, relevant to me, about when the Wainwright was sunk as a target and I need to review those details again and compile a list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wainwright_%28CG-28%29
Commissioned: 8 January 1966
Decommissioned: 15 November 1993
Status: sunk as target (2002)
USS Wainwright (DLG/CG-28), a Belknap-class destroyer leader, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for members of the Wainwright family; specifically, Commander Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, his son, Master Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Jr., and his cousin, Commander Richard Wainwright, as well as Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, the son of Commander Richard Wainwright, and Commander Richard Wainwright, the son of Admiral Wainwright. Her keel was laid down on 2 July 1962 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corporation. She was launched on 25 April 1965 sponsored by Mrs. Richard W. Wainwright; and commissioned on 8 January 1966 at the Boston Naval Shipyard with Captain Robert P. Foreman in command.
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On April 18, 1988 the USS Wainwright participated in Operation Praying Mantis. Operation Praying Mantis was the April 18, 1988 action waged by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of an American warship.
The April 14 mining nearly sank the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts, which was sailing in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Earnest Will, the 1987-88 convoy missions in which U.S. warships escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers to protect them from Iranian attacks.
