Talk:Gonzo Station

Removed a gripe

I removed this rambling gripe/boast:

The U.S.S. Roanoke AOR-7 was never commended for her time at sea. She was a inexpendible source of JP-5 refueling all commands. Detatched to her was Lt.Commander Tea's squandron of helo's, the very ones who made the hostage rescue attempt that later had the Roanoke as the caboose of the flotilla. However, detached to the Roanoke, ( named after a Virginian river ) was a trident sub, who's name escapes me. Lt.Cmdr tea served with us under Captain Duke Hernandez, an Annapolis fighter pilot who had put in time over Hanoi and was bucking for a carrier. ( the draft of an oiler gives optimum capacitation for the airdale prospecting to soar amongst the celestials ) We, the crew of the Roanoke spent more consecutive time at sea than any other command up to that time. The press back home boasted of some carrier doing a record time at sea. We nearly doubled that. Give credit where credit is do. I believe we were commended with the battle "E".

It is not encyclopedic in tone, starts with "was never commended", ends with "we were commended". Chris the speller 05:46, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

References/cleanup

This seems like an important, notable and interesting article, but there are no references. It also looks like it needs other cleanup. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ray Jameson (talk • contribs) 12:41, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Removed blatant error

Gonzo Station was a U.S. Navy acronym for "Gulf of Oman Naval Zone of Operations." It was not an attempt to honor Hunter S. Thompson nor is it in anyway associated with Gonzo Journalism. I added a proper description for the introduction including deleting both the Hunter S. Thompson reference and the Gonzo Journalism link. The inspiration for the quirky acronym "gonzo" can be seen on the unit patches which all featured the Gonzo character from the Muppets. - Scienceditor7 (talk) 20:27, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

To the best of my knowledge, 'Gonzo' was never an acronym; it always just referred to the Muppet. The other station in the area was Kermit Station (but it wasn't much used). Unfortunately, I don't have any documentation. Tms (talk) 17:02, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

In the See Also section, Coral Sea is already linked in the body of the text. Added links to relevant operations. - Scienceditor7 (talk) 22:30, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Interesting Article and Talk page.

Ok - I will state it is a possibility the Acronym is a Backronym - term existed for a while not as an acronym - then later someone adds a definition to the Acronym. May have been generated by Sailors as they felt out in the middle of no-where, sort of lost. What the term any credit to Gonzo the Muppet? Article list active as 1979 to 1990. Why? -what reason for the dates. My speculation - no need or reason, no carrier deployments to Indian Ocean before 1979 for the start date (Shaw of Iran Considered friendly). As I recall the Carrier battlegroup did not have a Justified reason to enter the Persian gulf - restricted water, risk more restricted area- until 1990 and the First Gulf War (we had reason and destroyers and frigates in the Persian Gulf then) . -that may be the reasoning for the end date. But more modern times- does the carrier stay out on the IO for those prior reasons? Also note the duration of the on-station - this was continuous with NO Port Calls. Due to this navy authorized ships to carry alcohol - beer- locked up, under Strong controlled - after 45 days continuous at sea, authorized to break out and give each sailor 2 beers. This high tempo at sea, caused some deployed units other locations at some time to experience deploy- more than expected time inport. Wfoj3 (talk) 15:36, 11 June 2022 (UTC)