My 20 Favorite US Navy Pics - 2007

My 20 Favorite US Navy Pics ^ | June 15, 2007 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

I thought I would share with the FR community some really great PICS of the US Navy from 2006 and 2007.

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MY FAVORITE TWENTY US NAVY PICS OF 2007

I'll post new pics each year. My way of honoring and giving tribute to the greatest Naval force in history and the men and women who make and keep it that way.

[Jeff Head]

For all those interested in Naval affairs.

[Jeff Head]

FYI...my latest US Navy site. Some really great pics of our naval fighting forces.

[Wheee The People]

Go Navy!

[Getready]

Great to comtemplate your Naval.

[1rudeboy]

bttt

[Jeff Head]

Umscalifosis...but that’s not the Naval area meant here...not the beans either...hehehe.

[B4Ranch]

Thanks Jeff

[Jeff Head]

No problem...always had great interst in and feeling for the US Navy, its history, equipment, philosophy, personnel, etc. Something about those stories my Dad told me as a boy about when he served in World War II in the Pacific.

[blam]

Excellent.

[Afronaut]

Thanks for the photos Jeff they are Amazing!

[CyberAnt]

Ooooooh! Great pics - I’ll rotate these into my screensaver.

[Jeff Head]

Here's a GREAT site...official US Navy Eye on the Fleet. Thousands of great pics.

EYE ON THE FLEET

[Jeff Head]

Thanks...hope you like the pics. I have several of those I use as background on my desktop...and also as a screensaver, using a folder full of them to rotate through on the “My Picture Slideshow” option.

[SShultz460]

Thx for the pics, but you only have 1 Submarine picture :)

[sneakers]

Cool!! My son’s ship is pictured - bottom row, second from the left, destroyer in the middle (DDG 82) That’s one of my favorites as well!

[Freee-dame]

Navy bump

[Thrownatbirth]

They better have brought some ice cream.

[groanup]

Thanks for the wallpaper.

[Jeff Head]

But it is one heck of a submarine picture!

[Chode]

love the Iwo pic...

[gpapa]

Thanks for the link Jeff. Great photos.

[Jeff Head]

...I can easily turn it into my Tenty-five favorite pics of the year. Hehehe...maybe I will, and have two rows for other combatants.

[Jeff Head]

...I can easily turn it into my Twenty-five favorite pics of the year. Hehehe...maybe I will, and have two rows for other combatants.

[FES0844]

AWESOME!
GOD BLESS OUR NAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SShultz460]

We do that every day :)

[stevie_d_64]

They got to be Army...Just got to be...;-)

Great pics BTW...

[Jeff Head]

Yes...that superstructure standing above the fog is very neat. Did you notice the RAM launcher there forward on the superstructure?

[CyberAnt]

Great - thanks for the link.

[hedgetrimmer]

Just curious but what do you think of the ‘thousand ship navy’ Admiral Mike Mullen organizing?

[gitmo]

Thanks, Jeff Head. Great pics.

[Jeff Head]

IMHO, overall, the Arleigh Burke design is the most successful, most powerful class of destroyers in the history of naval warfare. We have 52 now and are building ten more.

Thank you, and God bless you and your son for his service to our nation.

[Jeff Head]

You are very welcome. Hope you can use some of those pics.

[ex-snook]

An old ground pounder salutes our outstanding Navy.

[SolitaryMan]

Ice Cream? No way...we want MAIL!!!

[Jeff Head]

Well, it is good to have strong allies and to train with them and be prepared for any eventuality or contingency. For example, the UK, Italy, Spain, Australia, the JMSDF, the ROKN, etc. All are solid allies whose forces would be critical in the event of any major hostilities. When you add our navy to those so mentioned, the numbers are very impressive.

I have my doubts about the advisability...or capability, of bringing forces like the PLAN, or other such potential belligerents into it until they make significant changes in their governmental form.

[Chode]

i do now... 8^)

[Thrownatbirth]

Ice Cream? No way...we want MAIL!!!

From SOF goons? They'll eat your cookies and smoke your cigars. :-)

[em2vn]

A thousand ship Navy would be great but the medical care for the sailors had better get better than it is now.
From very recent family experience I found how just how poor the health care is that some of our sailors are receiving.

[AdvisorB]

I was recently in the Pacific Northwest on a business trip, and while driving through, I stopped in Bremerton. I was able to walk through the USS Turner Joy (DD-951) without a tour guide escort or tourists. I spent over an hour on this historic ship, and it’s one of the most moving moments in my life.

Thanks for the great pictures.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Interesting.....something was photoshopped out of the right side of the first picture. A sub? Another ship? Was it to hide something about carrier operations or was it just to make the picture look better?

[nckerr]

The only part of the Navy that “fights” are the Marines and the SeALs. Other than that, it is the Army that carries almost the entire load.

THe Navy is 99% mechanics and cooks.

Army Strong!

[gpapa]

My great-granduncle served aboard the Frigate USS Susquehanna during the Civil War. http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s20/susquehanna-i.htm

[hedgetrimmer]

The plan is to make the thousand ships up with ships from the Indian navy, among others. Mullen is not calling for the US to have naval superiority. We are not building more ships.

[hedgetrimmer]

Help your Navy and the other sea services by becoming a member of the Navy League of the United States. It is an excellent way for civilians and retired military to be involved.

[hedgetrimmer]

The only part of the Navy that “fights” are the Marines and the SeALs.

What about the fighting Seabees? "We build-- we fight"!

[A.A. Cunningham]

Of course the 76 on the port side of the Island tells us that this is CVN-76 USS Ronald Reagan not CVN-68 USS Nimitz as your URL, http://www.jeffhead.com/usnavyfavoritepics/2007/nimitz%20sound.jpg, would mislead some to believe. Taken during her transit of the Straits of Magellan on 21 June 2004. Sloppy.

[A.A. Cunningham]

You are full of s***.

[Jeff Head]

Ok...you were right and got me to see the error of my ways. Take a look now. It’s the twenty-five favorite pics and I found a couple more...including one of the 1st surface at the North Pole by a US sub in something like 30 years.

[Jeff Head]

Actually...the Nimitz in that name refers to the Nimitz class, which the USS Ronald Reagan belongs to. Perhaps you could have considered that, or maybe contacted me or asked me about it before making such a public, negative allegation.

The passage was indeed made in 2004...but the picture came to my attention in 2006. As the home page states, I will post those pictures brought to my attention in the last half of the preceeding year and the first half of the current year.

[Jeff Head]

There are tens of thousands of dead sailors throughout our histroy who would argue with you from the realm beyond. They fought and died defending you, just as our brave soldiers have done.

One day, when you have to depend on their aircraft, their missiles, their fire suport, or depend on them to get you through hostile waters from one place to another...you may appreciate that fact.