[DieselBoy]

Iowa is currently deactivated. She has been deactivated since 1990, but her sisteships Missouri, which is a museum in Pearl Harbor but can be called back, and Wisconsin, which is berthed at Nauticus in Norfolk, Va, served in the Gulf War.

[screed]

Mighty Mo was involved in the Gulf War even before it was a Gulf War. Battle Group Sierra was created in response to an attack on the USS Stark in the mid 80's and Missouri was part of that. I know because I was priveleged to be a member of her crew for that cruise. There is nothing out there like the "fat-bottomed girls" of the U.S. Navy. However, let me add this caveat. These ships were not designed with air-conditioning in mind and the retrofit was less than optimal. It gets a scooch warm in that neck of the woods too.