I spent part of my youth in the shipyard while the U.S.S. Somers was being recommissioned as a guided missle destroyer.
One lovely night some residents of Hunter’s Point, a real ghetto sh*& hole shot the Marine guards off of the main gate. That night the OOD of the Somers ordered the five inch fifty four leveled at the gate armed with some type of cannister round.
I asked him what the plan was. He said he intended to kill ever son of a bit&^ who tried to enter the yard.
Unfortunately, the cowards who shot the boys in green didn’t have the courage to venture onto the base.
Oh wow. Thanks.