Both ships were under orders that
everything had to go, including items in storage. We had that baby packed to the gills with stuff. When we got there we had gangways on both sterns and both bows with the ships tied up on opposite sides of the pier. For 2 days it looked like ants going back and forth, up one side with arm loads of stuff, down the other empty, rinse, repeat. The only things that stayed on the ship were items that were bolted down or specific to that class of ship (Mellon was Secretary Class, Munro was Hero). We got underway at the end of the third day and found we had no plates or silverware except for these cheap plastic "trays" and plastic "picnic style" utensils. We cleared port at Kodiak and immediately CASREP'd the main radar on the bridge and the sonar
When we went to fix stuff we found out there were "no parts" on board. Immediate protest lodged with both District Admirals
Turns out the Munro crew was under the impression that we were leaving Hawaii without all the gear we were ordered to take, so they kept as much of their stuff as possible in storage back in Seattle and made their Alpat bare bones. Which really screwed us since we had to take that pig back out to sea for 3 more months. Our Captain was spitting nails the entire trip...what a fiasco
