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After docking, Navy divers with Hookah diving equipment went to work closing all the leaks we had developed while crossing the Windward Passage. I learned the guys down in the bilges, (where I might have been working, had I not spoken up) were walking around with their pant legs rolled up. They were said to have been knee deep in water. So that first day was spent draining out the sea water from below, and welding the ship back together.

The next day the Greenwood was pronounced sea worthy. It was now time to go out for gunnery practice. This proved to be very interesting. A plane came by towing a drone target. First the forward gun turret took some shots at the drone. To everyone’s delight they scored a good many hits. Next it was time for the rear gun turret to take some shots at the target. One loud BANG was heard. The turret leaped into the air, about five feet off the deck. When it came back down, the men inside came running out shouting, “That’s enough of that!” Did I forget to mention, the USS Greenwood was a destroyer escort from WW II days? It was now the mid sixties.