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     The sailors on USS Russell, both commissioned and enlisted, were all volunteers serving in a peacetime navy on a ship that was the last of its kind. Her systems were all mechanical and her electronics, all analog, tubes and such. There were no digital, unmanned systems, automatically controlled guns, or high tech radar.
     All the ship’s systems depended on the crew to physically operate them, and that’s the point of Destroyer Command: A ship and her crew together, sailing, steaming, fighting, and surviving.
     Destroyer Command is a fictional story about a ship in a decade of change. The ship, USS Thomas Russell, and all her crew are fictional, but could be representative of a typical ship’s company of the period.
     Russell had reached the end of her service life. She is old, and at first glance, an apt description of Russell could be; like an old pro streetwalker with caked-on makeup to make her something she isn’t. She is a lot of paint and polish, but worn and ragged underneath.
     Who were the crew members? Just sailors, performing their jobs. A majority of them, although they would not admit it, would not trade their lives for anyone or anything. A bitching sailor is a happy sailor and most sailors have a love-hate relationship with the primary woman in their lives—their ship.
  
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