Finally I got time to spare to modify Colo's original
USS Texas to the
USS Arkansas, since Kim was generous enough to give me her badge as a birthday gift (which I greatly appreciated!). Since I live in Texas it'd be a very natural thing to depict, instead, the Lone Star Cruiser, but, since I've been in the Natural State and did like it very much, having paid a visit to Hope even (President Bill Clinton's hometown), I don't mind doing the
USS Arkansas.
The picture depicts the
Razorback Wagon as of ca. 1996, as part of the
Carl Vinson CVBG, in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of Iraq, participating in
Operation Desert Strike, the air suppression of Saddam's attempt at a genocide of the Kurdish population in Northern Iraq. At the time of her last operation, she belonged to the US Third Fleet, based at Alameda, Ca.