The Dawg. USS Los Angeles - Naples, Italy - Summer 1977.

Ten years later

LTjg Dawg. USS Harold E. Holt (FF-1074) - North Arabian Sea - Summer 1987
Yes that is USS Missouri (BB-63) in the background.

… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses

(Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81)