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Straights of Magellan and Chilean Inland waterway 1970. Note Sunken Ship in #4.

Tony Minero about as far south as you can go without going to the Antarctic.

     It was late in the 'round the World cruise in '72 after we started for home. We might have been in Japan when one of the guy's in the ships office came to me and said "You got transferred."
     I immediately told him he was full of it. He said come with me and showed me the orders! How can that be I had less than a year to go and had turned down 2nd class because you needed a year to accept and I wouldn't extend. 
     Well, off to op's I went to see where I might be going (shore duty in Scotland or something like that)! As fate would have it I was headed to the USS Great Sitkin AE 17.  What on earth is a Great Sitkin? The reply was totally Unsatisfactory, an Ammo ship, homeported in Bayonne, NJ, but she was not staying there for very long. She was headed to a place we had just left: VIETNAM! Surely this was a mistake!!!!!I climbed the ladder, first the R division Chief Kelly, and Ens. Catarella then the Engineering head Lt. Jacobs and finally the XO, Lcdr Kozlowski. All said have a nice trip.

So I wrote a letter to the CNO Zumwalt. I was very nice and didn't tell them how stupid they were. Just said it didn't make sense, less than a year to go, I wouldn't even have time to learn the plant! 

Then I got a big white envelope in the mail "Department Of The Navy." I've done it now I must have really ticked off someone big time. It was an aid to Zumwalt, a Captain who was telling me my orders were being canceled! I was stunned. I'm sending the letter to Paul for posting. So be nice to Z. Kos EM3 69-73