 Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Jonathan Pankaw. July 29th marks the 47th anniversary of the fire aboard USS Forestall. In 1967, Forestall was conducting wartime flight operations in the Gulf of Tonkin when a missile accidentally fired across the flight deck and struck a fully loaded jet. 134 sailors were killed during the incident and the ship was nearly destroyed. We had 134 men laying in a temporary morgue in Hangar Bay 1 to never forget, to never forget what we experienced and to remember our shipwrecks. The Navy has changed the way we handle damage control and has built on the lessons learned from the disaster. A firefighting school was dedicated to honor the first Forestall sailor to die responding to the fire.