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Memories of Pat Davis

The Grand Tour!

Just before the Boat went to Mare Island in late 1985, someone thought that the Bergall would be a great boat to show off to all of the "Middies" and their parents.   So as par normal, off she goes...and anchors about a mile from Annapolis.   We were assigned to give tours of the boat and it's spaces and I was given the job of tour guide in SONAR.

Well it went sort of like this...
"Welcome to the sonar shack, I'm Pat Davis and this is the AN/BQQ-5, any questions?"

Unfortunately most people did have questions, and I usually had some form of an answer.  The best question was, "What is a Bergall?"   Being the good Sonarman that I was, I quipped, "A little shit eating fish that lives off of the coast of New Jersey!"   I think I would have gotten away with that answer if ADM Larson (Commandant of the academy then), hadn't started giggling behind me.
 

STSC (ss) Pat Davis 82-87

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