[DogByte6RER]

No.

I was in the Navy at that time serving onboard a DDG (i.e., USS Robison DDG 12)

I DO vividly remember this in the news though because we had left the Persian Gulf a few months earlier.

I also remember seeing this Newsweek magazine at the local Navy Exchange and buying a copy:

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id344.htm

[mpackard]

My husband was on the USS Worden and had just left on WESPAC when this happened, I remember it like yesterday.