News
17 Dec 2005 - The USS Scott DDG-995
is
officially re-commissioned as the Kee Lung DDG-1801
and she is now the lead ship of the Ex-Kidd class.
Taiwan Defense
Review cover story. (I have formally requested for us to
be able to post their article on our site)
9 Feb 2004 - All the GOOD
NEWS from Iraq. Now, why won't the national
news agencies broadcast these items?
27 Oct 2003 - I've started a USS-Scott.com
Newsletter. If you didn't receive an invite, please email
me at webmaster@uss-scott.com.
Also, check out the Navy Public Affairs news from 8
years ago today.
6 Oct 2003 - This
news clipping
was emailed to me. Thought you might enjoy it.
24 March 2003 - 5th day of the second war on Iraq.
15 February 2003 - Photos
have been added thanks to Joe Finch.
16 December 2002 - Hiding on this site for a
few months has been a cartoon
about the Scott that never had a link to it. Hope you enjoy
it.
11 September 2002 - A Scott sailor reflects upon another
terrorist act...
"USS Scott won round one in the war
on terrorism, we were East Med Duty ship when the Achillie
Lauro was hijacked, as we were pulling into Haifa, Israel
15 minutes after passing over lines we were ordered to get
underway, the brow was across, and we dropped off some shipmates
transferring off, with little more than a I Love You but gotta
run notice, to those getting off the ship, then were we underway
again.
Our orders were to stop Achillie Lauro from entering Syrian/Lebanon
waters at all costs, Rumor Central had them as, "Ram
If Necessary". The ship went to a "No Shitter"
wartime GQ, we were within Silkworm missile range, and the
"bad-guys" were painting us with fire control radar
the whole time, made for a long anxious couple of days the
ship buttoned up, life jackets and gas masks at the ready.
We were able to "convince" Achillie Lauro to go
the other way, she wound up going into Port Said Egypt instead.
The second document is
the news gram message about the ship's participation in the
incident, from way back in the "olden days" when
there was no such thing as e mail, the only news we got back
then were these messages "news grams" posted in
the passageway by the mess deck and outside ships office."
See the POD from this incident HERE.
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