abstract:USS California (SP-647) -- later known as USS SP-647 -- was originally a motorboat used by the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association as a pilot boat. She was leased by the Navy, and outfitted as an armed patrol craft, assigned to patrol and protect San Francisco harbor.
We went to Camp Pendelton out here in California, were the Marines are training, we went to the USS Stenes, (UNCHECKED) which is stationed in the Arabian Sea, we went to Kuwait, and we went to Afghanistan.