o7 well met, sir... I was an OS (Operations Specialist) on the Badger '85 & '87, could very well have seen you when we were in the IO, or on our South Pacific Cruise... Our Captain was Cdr Erikson.
Our home port was Pearl Harbor, HI where we were attached to DESRON 25 and later DESRON 35 (for our South Pacific Cruise)... couldn't beat the weather.