USS MULLINNIX DD-944

SHIP HISTORY

"Destroyers – 'Tin Cans' as they are affectionately called by those who man them – are the busybodies of the fleet. Always looking for trouble – generally finding it. Proud little ships because they bear the names of great heroes of the service and keep alive the fighting traditions of our Navy.

These ships have to be built sweet, built tight, men are going to be fighting from these decks. They’re not its, they are shes. They curve in the right places, wear a coat of paint, and they squawk loud in an argument.

They are a hunk of steel, paint, rivets, then they slide into the water and get a name. A crew will come swarming over her gangway like blood running into her veins. She’ll throb, she’ll breath, she’ll be alive. Yea, she’ll be stubborn, tricky, temperamental at times – a woman.

Just look at her, personality, class."

Edward G. Robinson
Opening scene of "Destroyer"
1943

Mux History video from 2005 Reunion

1957
1958 - Commissioning
1958 - Mux 1st Cruise
1959 - Unitas I
1959/60 - Med
1960 - Northern Europe Cruise
1961 - Med
1962 - Unitas III
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
1963 - Mux in the Twilight Zone
1964
1965
1966 - Vietnam Gunline
1966 - Coming Home
1967 - Unitas VIII
1968
1969 - Vietnam Gunline
1970
1971 - Springboard
1972 - Goodwill Cruise
1972 - Vietnam Gunline
1973
1974 - Gitmo
1974 - Middle East
1975-6 Med Cruise
1976 - North Atlantic
1977 - Brooklyn Shipyards
1978/9 Middle East Cruise
1980 Middle East Cruise
1981 Middle East Cruise
1982
1982-3 Middle East Cruise
1983 - Decom
1992 - Sinkex
1995 - X-Files
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