On April 7th 2018, Bath Iron Works, BIW, was hosting family day at the Bath Maine facility. Not that I expected anything special, after all it was my Birthday – yeah, thanks BIW and US Navy folks! Well, the real event included the opportunity to tour two new ships that were pier side – the USS Thomas Hudner DDG-116 and the USS Michael Monsoor DDG-1001. Here my wife Lisa and I are aboard the USS Thomas Hudner on the left, and the USS Michael Monsoor on the right taking a photo op near the end of each ship’s tour.
It is such a privileged to be able to tour these ships and to see what remarkable products that BIW has built for the US Navy. Obviously some areas of each ship was off limits, but the tour through the ship was simply amazing none-the-less. It is reassuring to see that our Navy has some of the best damned equipment, and knowing that they will have these assets when called upon to use them.