The following story is true. Only the names have been eliminated to protect the innocent. It was a warm, late spring sunny morning and a crowd of several hundred parents, spouses and a rather bizarre group of Granby Street girlfriends had gathered on the dock at Berkley Base at Chesapeake Virginia. Berkley Base was the home port of USCGC INGHAM, a 327-foot ocean going High Endurance Cutter, and she was about to depart on a 45-day patrol to an Ocean Station somewhere in the