USS Shoup
I was unaware, until today, that the Navy had named a Destroyer for General David Shoup, the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps, and a man from my hometown.
General Shoup won the Congressional Medal of Honor at Tarawa during World War II, where his combat report read:
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.
General Shoup died in 1983 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetary.
The USS Shoup (DDG 86) is based in Everett, Washington.
December 30th, 2004 at 11:02 pm
Yes I would like to ask you! Being away from home how do you deal with it! I have a brother that’s in Iraq and its hard for me to deal with it! He wil be gone about a year! Being on a ship in the middle of water would get to me I ask! Thanks Maggie
January 25th, 2005 at 8:15 am
I am a Plankowner of the USS Shoup - I helped build her, crossed the Pananma Canal in her maiden voyage, commissioned her, and loved her with a fondness that goes beyond time. I worked in engineering - so I knew Everything - her propulsion systems, electrical, - every nook and cranny, you name it. I miss that ship so bad it hurts me down to my core.
I got out almost two years ago - Shoup was my first and last ship, and my home as well as my prison. Alot of bad things happened to me as well as alot of others on that ship.
I became a Disabled Veteran as a result of all these things - I was one of 80 females amongst 250 unruly men, and it’s sad - but us women should never have been there to begin with. Unutterably horrible things happen when you stack an overabundance of men and a teeny group of women in a space the size of a big house.
awwell - it’s over now - all’s I got to say is whoever’s bright idea it was to put women on warships needs to have their asses kicked all over the place. I wasted a lot of years of my life because the “Equal-Opportunity” the government provides is bullshit. I was assaulted on that ship in a very horrifying manner - and you know what - the jerks swept it under the rug and blamed me for it so they could ascend to the next rank.
That’s some crap justice that has ached me every day for the last 3 years. But that’s the way the military is - beleive me. And if your a gal reading this, take heed - you don’t want to go there.
January 27th, 2005 at 9:11 pm
Ihave a son on the shoup, he’s been gone for over a year this time and I miss him terriably, I am hoping he will get to come home as soon as this deployment is over, last I heard they were helping the sumatra victims . well its just nice to be able to say this, Its hard to talk to anyone about how much you miss him without the emotions getting out .ttyl