Posted on 08/21/2022 2:18:44 PM PDT by DFG
I gotta idea.
Dock the Big E in Puget sound and when the lights go out in Seattle, then they will have electricity.
Especially when the Big One hits or Rainier blows it’s top.
Or the Green Energy fiasco.
5.56mm
In 2286 in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Uhura and Chekov locate a 20th Century ship to use her nuclear power to recharge their own ship——the USS Enterprise.
There are plenty of letters in the alphabet!
Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home USS Enterprise scenes were filmed on the USS Ranger CV-61 in Coronado, CA.
Chekov: [to a policeman] Excuse me, sir! Can you direct us to the naval base in Alameda? It’s where they keep the nuclear wessels.
[He pauses, looks at Uhura, and tries again]
Chekov: *Nuclear wessels*.
Chekov: Admiral. We have found the nuclear wessel.
Kirk: Well done, Team two.
Chekov: And Admiral... it is the *Enterprise*.
[Kirk and Spock look at each other]
Kirk: Understood.
Star Trek-——memorable scenes.
“The Final Countdown” carrier scenes were filmed on the USS Nimitz. The carrier in port at the end of the movie is the USS Kitty Hawk. The flight scenes were filmed around Key West, FL.
Interview with Al “Shoes” Mullen (one of the F-14 pilots in the movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WCyRubjP1I&ab_channel=AirCombatExperience
That was Nimitz...
There’s a new Enterprise ship in the making. I don’t know if it’ll have the history of the WW2 Enterprise or the Barbary Wars Enterprise.
Classic quote! Thanks for posting.
I as on an earlier CVA in the early ‘60s. The FDR was a sister ship to the Midway and the Coral Sea.
They were designed for 3600 crew, but we carried about 5000 during the Cold War. Was crowded!
Around the early ‘70s, my mom sent me a clipping from the newspaper showing a pic of my ship and saying it was to be scrapped. ...That caused sadness like when you find out your long-time friend from your school days passed away.
“Sad to see the Big E scrapped”
I read somewhere that they planned to keep the island intact as a museum piece somewhere.
Yup, we’re scrapping a carrier. We have a bunch more.
How many carriers does Russia have?
One. And it’s a floating scrapheap that will never see active duty again.
“Wasn’t this carrier once commanded by Kirk Douglas and got caught in a storm and ended up in 1941 the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked?”
Final Countdown?
No that was the USS Nimitz.
I know the feeling. Even now, during Biden’s PC Admin. there are still areas of the military that remain ruled by linear, strictly business thinking, give or take a smidgen of cronyism.
While I lived in Crapville Bremerton, WA for nearly 15 years, I used the Navy PX or BX as the Navy calls them. Bremerton is full of Navy and Marine retirees. Lots of Army also because of all the military bases as such around there. But that state, west of the Cascades is solid communists. East of the Cascades is more conservative. Too bad there are not more conservatives to carry Kitsap County.
This is a comment relating to USS Entereprise but give me a moment to put it into context.
In the summer of 1967, I went through Marine Corps boot camp at MCRD San Diego. I was in 1st RT Bn, so we were billeted in the WWII-era Quonset Huts at the south end of the base (all gone now). It so happened that my platoon (1067) was billeted at the end of the company street where we had a relatively unobstructed view out across the base fence line, the outer harbor and all the way across to Coronado Island. It was a fair distance to the island, so what you saw that far out was sort of a lumpy horizon line.
Sunday mornings, the training schedule was admin time; church call, sit on your upturned bucket on the company street writing letters, read the newspapers that were distributed, clean your rifle, etc. This particular Sunday, I was reading the newspaper when I looked up and saw a massive building slowly moving from right to left across the horizon. Nothing around it, just flat horizon on either side and the dome-topped building moving, moving slowly from right to left.
“This is it! This is how you have a mental breakdown,” I thought. Things start moving around that aren’t supposed to be moving around. So I guessed boot camp finally has gotten to me.
But, before turning myself into the drill instructor on duty, I figured I had better check with one of my platoon mates. So I asked the recruit sitting next to me if he saw anything funny out on the horizon.
Astoundingly, he saw a building moving too! So we both stood up and got a better look.
That was when we realized we were seeing the USS Enterprise (minus its air wing which had already flown off for NAS Miramar) steaming into San Diego harbor to moor. The flight deck was so long that, when empty, it looked like the horizon. And the odd shape of the original island (cylinder surmounted by a flattened cube topped by a dome) and no funnel (nuclear powered) gave it a silhouette that completed the deception. As we talked, another recruit said it (the coming arrival of the Enterprise CVBG) was mentioned in the local newspaper.
Mental health crisis averted, I went back to casual time.
For some reason, the other thing that I recall from these Sundays was going out for drill one afternoon. The platoon needed to seriously practice the infamous multipart “form for shelter halves” drill command. After a frustrating 30-45 minutes of the platoon repeatedly screwing up one part or another, the chief drill instructor marched us over to the “Sand Pits” area behind 2nd RT Bn and had us observe what awaited us if we continued to mess the maneuver up.
The Sand Pits area was a large area (several softball fields in size) flat sand with scraggly grass and completely enclosed by brushy low trees except for its entrance. There was a lot of indistinct shouting like a wave of sound as we marched in and faced right to observe.
There we saw the damned, the condemned, the cadence-counting, sweat-stained, exhausted recruits slowly digging themselves into the sand doing squat thrusts, side straddle hops and other forms of vigorous exercise. All the while being encouraged by shouting, snarling DI’s.
After ten minutes or so, he asked us if we’d like to try again and marched us back to the grinder. Funny, we nailed it repeatedly that afternoon and never had a problem with it after that.
Thanks for your patience if you got this far.
I was on her 81-85. Were you there when we got stuck in the mid in S.F. Bay?
“Yup, we’re scrapping a carrier. We have a bunch more. How many carriers does Russia have?”
Not sure what Russia has to do with this, but if China (or Russia) were trying to take Hawaii, then I’d be interested in how many carriers they had.
But, considering that we’re itching to fight China, right next to China, I’d say having as many carriers as possible would be a SMART strategy and SCRAPPING carriers to ‘save money’ is simply STUPID...just as not bothering to try to develop hypersonics or defenses against hypersonics, until very recently. I also fail to see why I should care how many carriers China has when it comes to Taiwan
So, feel free to blame Putin and Xi for filling the power vacuum that we (the US) created by continuing to unilaterally disarm (you know, to ‘save money’), but it doesn’t make the world any safer.
Yes, I was. I was a Supply Petty Officer, and in addition I was a Short-timer, preparing to leaving the service in a few months. I don’t recall many details, except there was a lot of speculation on who’s fault it was, and on how long it would take before we could be done with this event, one way or another. I just wanted to go off the ship, on liberty that evening.
That is all I wanted.
“One. And it’s a floating scrapheap that will never see active duty again.”
Actually the Russians are slapping a bunch of million dollar bandaids on it to keep it “operational” for another 25 years LOL.
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