It wasn’t like this in the old Navy.

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It wasn't like this in the old Navy. July 9, 2016 11:49 am ER

There have been three destroyers in the US Navy named after ADM George Dewey. This was the first, a pre-WWII rat can…

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/USSDeweyDD349.jpg

My Dewey (DLG 14, later reclassified DDG 45) was the second,
she was decommissioned and broken up for scrap twenty years ago.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/gormady/Dewey4.jpg

The latest Dewey (DDG 105) is one of the newest, most lethal and advanced Arleigh Burke class missile destroyers in the fleet.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Vessels-Submarines-and-Boats/Marine-Military-and-Civilian/i-kV43LkH/8/X2/_MG_5490-X2.jpg

This is her CO, CDR Abigail Hutchins.

http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg105/PublishingImages/CO_CDR_Hutchins.JPG

You know, what really blows my mind about CDR Hutchins is not that she’s a lady, but that she’s so goddamn young.

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