Cg23sailor (August 11, 2008 at 2:15 pm)

I've heard people speak of being used as a target to be a terrible end for a warship. I personally think that it is a fitting end. a terrible end would be getting cut up for razorblades as my ship, USS Halsey was.There is a Game called "Sub Command" and in the intro movie there is footage of a Leahy getting hit by a missile., not sure which Leahy it was but it was one as the video showed the Aft Missile house from the Fantail.

JPWesterberg (August 10, 2008 at 11:07 pm)

There's actually two... the first one (up to the radar shot) is Wang Chung from "To Live and Die in LA"... after that it's Joe Satriani and "Surfin' with the Alien."

thebush50 (August 10, 2008 at 8:47 pm)

whats the song name iv heard it before i just cant remember the name

JPWesterberg (August 9, 2008 at 9:52 pm)

Yah... they called the Leahys "double enders"... cause they had the missile launcher on both ends. Us Navy guys are pretty clever. Horne was sunk during RIMPAC 2008 July 14... she now sits on the Ocean floor about 2.5 miles below the surface... about 50 miles NW of Kauai... not a bad place to come to rest.

Cg23sailor (August 9, 2008 at 9:25 pm)

Great Video. Bout the time you were making this video I was reporting aboard my first ship USS Halsey CG-23. I see a lot of former Leahy and Belknap Cruiser sailors commenting.For those who dont know. the Leahys are near Identical to the Belknap class seen here as the USS Horne. Main Diff is that we had these launchers both fore and aft, whereas the Belknap had a 5" gun aft like in the video. We also had an ASROC launcher forward behind the foreward Missile launcher.

54spiritedwill54 (August 4, 2008 at 8:27 pm)

I love that missiles, great vid

dustystix76 (July 25, 2008 at 5:30 am)

wow, great vid, i've only been around the Mk13 One Armed Bandits (sad to see em go), served 2 years on FFG 61 and 2 yrs on DDG 86, and prior to that, 5 years on CVN 74. Former DC1 (SW) USN 1997-2006

LichGeneral (July 21, 2008 at 7:39 pm)

thanks for sharing this

JPWesterberg (July 20, 2008 at 7:36 am)

Old school editing... you take a recorder... lay down an audio track over black screen... rewind... put it on record/pause... take your camera and cue it up... hit play... then hit record on the recorder... do this over and over for about 8 hours and you get this video... thank goodness for flying erase heads!

texagman (June 29, 2008 at 4:27 am)

Awesome video, and really high quality editing when you consider the tools available in 1990.And I LOVE the 80's music. It takes me back :)1990 ... holy shit that was 18 years ago ... almost two whole friggin' decades! Where does the time go! :)