Time magazine reporters were in for an unexpected turn of events when they stopped by the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service studios on the University compound in Mogadishu, Somalia in November 1993.

The first year of life for the newly commissioned USS Valley Forge (CG 50) was documented in a cruisebook.  The layout and design featured a surprise two-page spread that caught almost everyone off guard. 

One of the first casualties of Operation Desert Storm was actually thousands of miles away.  Stress of the building conflict proved to be a bit too much to take for one allied leader.

It might have been the wrong place.  It might have been the wrong time.  But it worked out safely one night in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The story of a young Navy Sailor who learned the hard way about communicating with friends and family back home while deployed for six months at sea.