Red skies at night, sailors delight
Red skies in the morning, sailors take warning.
>https://www.navysite.de/bb/bb61.htm
December 17, 1944 Ulithi During a typhoon IOWA’s plane is washed over the side. The storm also damages the shaft and requires USS IOWA to return to the United States for overhaul at Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco.
April 19, 1989 Off Puerto Rico An explosion of undetermined cause rips through IOWA’s Number Two sixteen-inch gun turret killing 47 crewmen. IOWA is still able to deploy to Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in mid-year. Turret Two remained unrepaired.
yeah, there's a photo gallery at the site.
https://www.navysite.de/bb/bb61.htm
Any Navy/Sailor anons here tonight?
The two photos above were taken by Andreas Wigger and show the IOWA during a gun fire demonstration off the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea in October 1985.
What about Air Force and Space Force?
Commander in Chief, President as. The Constitution (Article II, section 2) specifies that "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several states, when called into the actual Service of the United States."
What about Space Force?
hmmmmm