Talk:USS McCloy

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The DANFS entry for this ship ends around 1970. Where the rest of the information in this article came from needs to be referenced. --Brad (talk) 15:57, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like most of it was copy and pasted from gyrodynehelicopters.com Bronstein class, Navysite.de - FF-1038 and DANFS. --Dual Freq (talk) 15:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The dates in this article are not entirely accurate. I was a third-year midshipman aboard McCloy in Boston Naval Shipyard in July and August of 1966. I am certain about the date, because I was commissioned in June of 1967 and assigned elsewhere. I believe that the 1967 overhaul mentioned in this article was in fact done in 1966. I'm not sure how that fact relates to the other events mentioned in 1966, but it suggests that they may have happened earlier than is stated. 24.44.111.229 (talk) 18:34, 24 January 2015 (UTC)Howard[reply]

It's possible that DANFS is wrong, but we would need verifiable sources in print or something like that to prove it is wrong. --Dual Freq (talk) 19:38, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All that I can seem to find is Exercise Matchmaker I was 1965, II was 1966 and III was 1967. It is reasonable to believe that DANFS got the II confused with 11 based on Alexander, John (1997). The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Into the 21st Century. Naval Institute Press. p. 69. ISBN 9781855326712.. However, according to European Stars And Stripes February 20, 1967, article, Salute will open NATO Command, McCloy was with Zellers, Limburg and Berwick. All were set to dock in Lisbon as the "matchmaker squadron". I think the 1967 date stays based on that confirmation. --Dual Freq (talk) 00:00, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]