USS Orleck- Lake Charles, Louisiana
The USS Orleck's awards Lucky for us, there is a United States Navy Destroyer docked on the Calcasieu River close to Lake Charles. The USS Orleck was built in 1945 in Orange, Texas, and served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, receiving many awards for its service. It was decommissioned in 1982, and transferred to the Turkish Navy. They decommissioned it in 1999 and it returned to Orange, Texas to become a museum ship. Hurricane Rita messed it up, and they decided to move it to Lake Charles in 2010. It has been there ever since. Infirmary We went to check it out and the tour they gave as well as the boat itself exceeded my expectations. When we first arrived, we actually had to enter the boat to pay the entrance fee. I was not sure how the whole thing worked, but Landon took off down a hallway and I followed him. Turns out, someone had just started a tour, so we jumped in with that couple and we took a two-hour tour of the boat. Starting off, a man who was working...