Category Archives: Sticky

Forward Deployed — Operationally Relevant — Capable

  • 240529-N-GA645-1005 NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain (May 29, 2024) Sailors man the rail as the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) returns to Naval Station Rota, May 29, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Courtney Pollock)
  • SM-3 Operational Use Coin
  • Admiral Burke on Trial A
  • Christening – Bobbie Burke & Wilma Miles
  • Suez Canal – May 2023
  • North Sea Unrep – May 2023
  • Vertrep – Jan 2024 – Med Sea
  • 2024 MWR T-shirt design
  • USPS – Distinguished Sailors – First Day Cover
  • BIW Sea Trials Capt Earl Walker & Capt Morgan
  • 2022 – Nice – visit by RADM P. A. Dur, the ship’s first Battle Group Commander.
  • May 2022
  • 2009 Deployment
  • Departing Faslane – Sep 2022
  • Precomm Buttons

Upcoming Events:

Tin Can Sailors 42nd Coffee & Donuts Gathering
– Tin Can Sailors, 1077 County St., Somerset, MA 02726
– Thursday, November 6th at 9:00 AM
– CDR Hugh Doyle (USN Ret) will talk about the Hingham Massachusetts shipyard in WWII.  “It built 227 ships, including 92 Destroyer Escorts, in just 3 1/2 years.”
– RSVP at 508-677-0515 or  tcs@tincans.org