Here I am, being the Spanish CNO for a few moments. Actually, my stateroom was "volunteered" to be the personal staging area for the highest ranking naval officer in the Spanish navy and his entourage's personal things while they toured the ship for an underway period, so me and a few of the other guys (under pains of torture, I have sworn not to reveal their names) took turns taking pictures of ourselves with his hat on. Boy, sure hope no one finds out about this :oDWell, I'll fill in more of the the details later, just wanted to get a few photos out of the places that I saw and some of the people that I shared this deployment with. Overall, probably the most boring deployment (mission-related, that is) that I have done in the Navy, but I did manage to see a few interesting things in the four port calls that we made, including conducting an Emerald Shellback ceremony (simultaneously crossing the Prime Meridian and the Equator at the same time/same point) and got to make a once-in-a-lifetime stop in Cape Verde, about 300 nM off the western coast of Mauritana.
Some photos of Lisbon:
Cape Verde:
Toulon and Brest, France:
Other Memories:
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