37 Yrs Ago Today - Mullinnix leaves for Vietnam

USS Mullinnix DD-944, the Navy’s last all-gun destroyer, steamed out of Norfolk, VA enroute to Vietnam for what would be the last of her 3 cruises to that region of the world. This, in response to the North’s Easter Offensive. Checkout http://www.ussmullinnix.org/1972Vietnam.html for all the details of what my shipmates and I were all about. We were young, arrogant, and full of piss-and-vinegar, ready to depend this nation against the red horde…

Drink one for us,
Woody