BBN-63

By: Ross Carson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Andy Turner, an electronics engineer newly retired from the US Navy, has always had a burning desire for a greatness which has continually alluded him during a long career dealing with bureaucrats and political managers in a broken government system. A chance meeting at the USS Missouri Museum spawns a friendship that blossoms into a project to refit the USS Missouri with modern propulsion, weapons and electronics. The storied and once great battleship undergoes a transformation into a sleek modern warship where she takes her place again as a primary ship amidst the US Navy fleet. As a single ship battle group, the USS Missouri completes sea trials with flying colors and rearms just in time to once again prove her metal in battle. As the unrest in the world boils over into a hot shooting war which goes nuclear, the great ship once again answers the call to protect freedom.

New Adventure.

I am an old U.S. Navy man, having served on an older destroyer. I was in the gunnery division and served as a fire control technician. Although I never served on a battleship, we did occasionally cross paths with the USS New Jersey. It was a beautiful ship. The story about the USS Missouri was wonderful to me.