USS MULLINNIX DD-944

     1982-3 - Med-Indian Ocean     

Mullinnix - Indian Ocean
Picture taken from USS Boston SSN-703 Periscope
Courtesy Stephen Jones




Mullinnix is the 2nd or 3rd Ship Behind the Carrier (Suez Canal 1982)


Black Smoke - Middle East 1982


Unknown Location - Middle East 1982


MT 53 - Middle East 1982


USS Mullinnix in Suez Canal - 1982




20 May, 1983
Mullinnix pulling into homeport, Charleston, South Carolina
Thus, finishing her last cruise on active duty
' Damn, if this doesn't make your eyes mist up, nothing will...


Well, this one might...
20 May, 1983 - Charleston SC homecoming
NOT OLDER! BETTER!!
Long live the Mightly Mux!!! God Bless her and her crew!!!!


"Welcome Home"
20 May 1983 Homecoming - Charleston
THANKS for service that spanned 4 decades!!!!



February 1983
USS Mullinnix (DD944), closing to fuel from RFA Plumleaf, Indian Ocean
Courtesy of late night research by Steve Haight



1983
USS Mullinnix (DD944), closing to fuel from RFA Plumleaf
Indian Ocean (Actual Photograph)



1983
USS Mullinnix (DD944), closing to fuel from RFA Plumleaf
Indian Ocean (Actual Photograph)



All pictures (unless otherwise noted) courtesy of Ron Hendershot



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	Mullinnix coming into Charleston, SC - 20 May 1983 - after her last cruise		Mullinnix coming into Charleston, SC - 20 May 1983 - after her last cruise
	Mullinnix coming into Charleston, SC - 20 May 1983 - after her last cruise		Mullinnix coming into Charleston, SC - 20 May 1983 - after her last cruise
	Mullinnix coming into Charleston, SC - 20 May 1983 - after her last cruise		Mullinnix coming into Charleston, SC - 20 May 1983 - after her last cruise
	Mullinnix coming into Charleston, SC - 20 May 1983 - after her last cruise		Mullinnix coming into Charleston, SC - 20 May 1983 - after her last cruise
	1st Div Berth - On her last cruise. I pray to God nightly I didn't sleep this far forward!		1st Div Berth - On her last cruise
	1st Div Berth - On her last cruise

Cruisin'

	Suez Canal- 1983		Suez Canal- 1983
	Suez Canal- 1983		Suez Canal- 1983
	Suez Canal- 1983		Suez Canal- 1983
	Suez Canal- 1983		Suez Canal- 1983
	Indian ocean - 1983		Indian ocean - 1983
	Other ships steaming with Mullinnix - 1983		Other ships steaming with Mullinnix - 1983
	Other ships steaming with Mullinnix - 1983		Other ships steaming with Mullinnix - 1983
	Other ships steaming with Mullinnix - 1983		Other ships steaming with Mullinnix - 1983
	Other ships steaming with Mullinnix - 1983	Ships could be Uss Savannah or USS Samuel Gompers or USS Puget Sound or ???

(Courtesy of William D. Horvath) In May of 1983, the Admiral called us up to his office, where he had a photo from the 1950's of this huge battle group. He wanted a photo of HIS battle group. The most famous photos from that day, shot just before we got to Mombasa, is theg roup with a diamond of diamond formation of planes and a shot from in front with the planes above. But I always liked this view as the formation broke up so the carrier could recover the planes. In the foreground is the almost new USS Kidd DDG-993 (Commissioned 27 March 1981; Decommissioned 12 March 1998), then the USS Mullinnix DD-944, the last all gun destroyer in the Navy and the cruiser USS Dale DLG-19.


USS Mullinnix - Unknown Date; Unknown Location












The bridges that Mullinnix steamed by in 1983 were torn down in 2006
and replaced by the new Arthur Ravenel Bridge to accommodate larger
container ships entering and leaving Charleston
All part of the local "port expansion project"

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