When the USS Radford Association began in 1991 we had no idea of having our own museum. Almost no destroyers do, except the ones that actually still have a ship. The idea began to develop in the spring of 1995 when I put a notice in the April/May/June newsletter, stating, USS Radford Museum & Archives – How does that sound? I began to realize, after much research, that most of Radford’s history was so capsulated that even the Presidential Unit Citations were not listed. As President, I decided we needed an Archive that paid attention to the ship’s history and along with that came the necessity of a museum.