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Aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy scheduled to arrive in Philadelphia today
Philadelphia Inquirer ^
| Henry J. Holcomb
Posted on 03/22/2008 6:12:07 AM PDT by grjr21
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:12:07 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: grjr21
Now if only Teddy could be retired as well....
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:20:00 AM PDT
by
usmcobra
(I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
To: grjr21
The ship, which entered service in 1968, was modernized at a cost of $600 million as the last project of the old Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in the mid-1990s. It was decommissioned in August. Am I the only one to see something wrong with that bit?
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:26:30 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
To: grjr21
Sure would like to be on the river in my boat to catch a glimpse of it as it goes by,
Flew over it as it left Jacksonville. It was about 5 miles offshore heading east as I was vectored right over Mayport N.A.S I looked east from 35oo feet and thought wow I’d sure love to land on that babe. Gosh I wonder just what would happen if I claimed an emergency and put down?
Probably get shot out of the sky or still be in jail.
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:27:35 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: usmcobra
"Now if only Teddy could be retired as well...." Wouldn't it be nice if they would conduct another "Philadelphia Experiment" and have old Teddy disappear along with the carrier.
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:31:45 AM PDT
by
davisfh
( Islam is a serious mental illness)
To: usmcobra
Particularly with his carrier sized rear end stuck in some of the treasonous muck he’s foisted on our beleagured Republic so constantly for so many decades . . . preferably with some very mean crabs biting him fiercely and persistently thereon and perhaps with some plastic garbage bags floating by giving hims some challenging lessons in trying to breathe very limited air . . . while visions of a certain car and a very unfortunate woman flash harshly and frequently through what’s left of his pickled brain.
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:33:28 AM PDT
by
Quix
(GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
To: grjr21
There is no place quite so cold as a ship without power in the winter.
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:34:05 AM PDT
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(Swift as the wind; Calmly majestic as a forest; Steady as the mountains.)
To: grjr21
I’ll be at Red Bank @ noon up by the monuments.......
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:35:38 AM PDT
by
Sub-Driver
(Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
To: Sub-Driver
Take some pix if you can...
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:46:11 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: Joe Boucher
Probably get shot out of the sky or still be in jail.I think you would have been able to post bail by now but do you really think the flight deck is clean enough to make a uneventful landing .
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:46:17 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: TheBattman
No, your not. Such a waste. Navel site says its one of the last carriers that burns fossil fuels.
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:53:55 AM PDT
by
Racer1
To: grjr21
Probably not, I fly an RV6A and can stop her pretty short I have to believe the deck is scarred.
Maybe with a Huskey.
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:56:19 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: Racer1
Awesome We are visintg Philly and heading home today we will be driving near the river and I hope we can get a few pics!!!
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:57:26 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
To: Racer1
But I thought the JFK was the 1st U.S. Nuke Carrier.
If not the JFK, which one was the the 1st?
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:58:35 AM PDT
by
M.K. Borders
(Be Brave, Be Free. Burn the Card!)
To: TheBattman
Probably a poor investment in hindsight. But look at the millions poured into bringing back the Iowa BB’s. Their return service was less than the JFK's.
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:58:44 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: grjr21
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posted on
03/22/2008 6:58:54 AM PDT
by
Racer1
To: M.K. Borders
Enterprise was the first nuclear carrier, built in 1965. The JFK in 1967-68 was to have been a nuclear carrier but was the last oil burner. Navy hands can tell the story of why this happened...
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posted on
03/22/2008 7:09:20 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: grjr21
Being an oil burner the JFK was obsolete before it hit the waves. Another legacy from McNamera’s whiz-kids running the Pentagon.
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posted on
03/22/2008 7:16:52 AM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
To: M.K. Borders
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posted on
03/22/2008 7:21:08 AM PDT
by
Nuc1
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posted on
03/22/2008 7:21:44 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(cranky right-winger)
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