Remember the squids and Happy Mom’s Day to all the moms!

 

 

For a Friday and Mother’s Day weekend I thought I’d show a little tin can Navy action to help folks remember that — no matter the heroics this week of the Seals — we should also remember all those other sailors (squids, swabbies) at sea like those on board the above ship. It’s a cool picture of a night fire exercise from the guided missile destroyer USS Nitze which is in a training formation with ships from the Mexican and Brazilian navies and the Coast Guard. This reminds me of the night fire exercises the destroyer on which I sailed in the Navy underwent using 5-inch/38-caliber star shell projectiles that would definitely light up the night. Happy Mother’s Day to all those mothers out there.