re: USS Kidd is Finishing Up Her Journey to Houma

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She really is a badass ship. I didn't know until the other day that per the US Navy, they are not allowed to run her engines.

If you don't know the ice cream machine story, it's a great one. In dock, the seamen pooled their money together and bought an ice cream machine. They had a dock worker cut a hole in the ship so they could get the machine into the galley, then sealed the hole back up. Only problem was, the bigger ships had ice cream machine mixes, not smaller destroyers. So when a pilot was shot down or crashed in the water, the Kidd would pick up the pilot and "hold him ransom" until the aircraft carrier sent over ice cream mixes. Now, they are the only Navy ship allowed to fly the Jolly Roger as they are the Pirates of the Pacific.

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