The U.S.S Turner Joy & Naval Undersea Museum

    A few weeks ago the squadron took a very unique and fun field trip both to the U.S.S Turner Joy and to the Naval Undersea Museum.  What made this trip so unique is the fact that at our first stop on the first day we got to spend the night on the Turner Joy!

   
We all slept in the same quarters that the crew of the ship slept in, but before we bunked down for the night, we were given a lesson in knot making, they were so simple they were hard! Then we got to tour the ship with a guide.  Soon, it was sadly time to hit the bunks. But the next morning, we had our opining formation right on the deck! After all of the morning technicalities where done and over, we were all set loose on the ship. We could revisit the places we saw the previous day, or visit the places that we missed the first time around. It was all a really great experience, and I think I can speak for most of us that we really didn’t want to leave.

    But we of coarse had one more stop, the Naval Undersea Museum. We saw many different submarines, diving equipment, and lots of other cool undersea things such as torpedoes. You could really spend hours in the museum.

   All and all, we had a very successful weekend.  I mean, it’s not like every night you get to sleep on a ship.

Cheyenne Sibitzky C/TSgt
Lewis County Composite Squadron
Civil Air Patrol