USS Oklahoma City Patch Release

[Morgan Shackelford]

[CAPT Huckabee]

Really like it. Always loved the rope design outline you use time to time. Really gives that patch feel.

[djteke]

sparrow794 wrote:

Wow my dad served on that ship during Vietnam. Lots of memories going through his old photos when I was a child. Great looking Patch.

[Wupteedo]

I am very humbled, Sir. Thank you and I will wear this with pride. Lances were a great touch.

CDR Smaug
Commanding Officer
USS Oklahoma City

[Wupteedo]

Why the Oklahoma City or "Okie Boat" as we called her? As a 17-year-old right out of CTA "A" School, my first assignment was Commander Seventh Fleet Staff, embarked aboard the USS Oklahoma City (CG-5). I served aboard her from February 1978 till Fall of 1979, when Com7thFlt shifted Flag to the U.S.S. Blue Ridge (LCC-19). Homeport: Yokosuka, Japan. Like your first woman, you never forget your first ship.

Read more about it here:
http://www.okieboat.com/


Ship's Motto: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome (Borrowed from one of my favorite movies; "Heartbreak Ridge." Plus, my first "Sea Daddy" reminds me of Gunny Hightower.

BTW, I use the name "WupTeeDo" in honor of another Senior Chief I worked whom used to say all the time "WupTFuckingDo!" We buried him about 20 years ago at Arlington National Cemetery; complications due to "Agent Orange."

[Wupteedo]

"Okie Boat" using her Lance Phasers.

[Anton Mercer]

That is a REALLY small picture...

[Wupteedo]

Revised picture -- "Lanced by the Okie Boat"