To: sonofstrangelove
History looses again.
2 posted on
05/05/2010 8:28:38 PM PDT by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: sonofstrangelove
3 posted on
05/05/2010 8:34:32 PM PDT by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: sonofstrangelove
I am sick of the Kennedys.
4 posted on
05/05/2010 8:44:02 PM PDT by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: sonofstrangelove
The first Carrier built with a 1200 PSI 8 Boiler configuration. Previous carriers were 600 PSI.
6 posted on
05/05/2010 8:50:14 PM PDT by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: sonofstrangelove
Bummer. These carrier museum projects are almost always economic losers. I don't know about Intrepid, but Midway is the only other one I know is keeping its head above water.
I did my A-4 carrier qual on the Saratoga. I didn't do very well. You had to get a 2.4 grade to qualify. I got exactly a 2.4. I sucked.
Eventually I got better.
7 posted on
05/05/2010 8:51:02 PM PDT by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: sonofstrangelove
Darn shame. I was reading a bit about Saratoga earlier tonight. The old girl has quite a history. Hate to think of her "cut up for razor blades", as the saying goes.
9 posted on
05/05/2010 8:52:59 PM PDT by
DemforBush
(Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
To: sonofstrangelove
All my best to the crews who served on her. It’s a sad thing to know that the ship you served on is scheduled for the scrap heap. Having been in the Navy, I can tell you that there is a strong attachment to a ship you have served on. It becomes a part of you.
11 posted on
05/05/2010 9:00:24 PM PDT by
RC2
To: sonofstrangelove
Saratoga is one big ship! When we sailed out of Bristol Harbor, we could see her at Newport as soon as we were in Narraganset Bay. Iowa was moored on the other side of her, and you couldn't see her until you sailed past Saratoga...
20 posted on
05/05/2010 10:14:49 PM PDT by
TXnMA
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!)
To: sonofstrangelove
The heroic old girl deserves a port in the USA, not a Chinese scrap yard.
21 posted on
05/05/2010 11:13:16 PM PDT by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(Bye bye Miss American Freedom. When did we vote for Communism?)
To: sonofstrangelove
The carrier I served on was the Coral Sea. One day in the mid 90’s I was driving thru Baltimore and looked over to that familiar 43...what a shock to see her being cut up for scrap.
Was the XO of the Marine Detachment - a grunt in a sea of Naval Aviators. I came aboard with little respect for ‘wing wipers’, but all that changed when I spent some time on the LSO platform one night. Landing a jet on that deck at night takes an awful lot of skill and courage. I have had high regard for Naval Aviators ever since.
Semper Fi,
22 posted on
05/06/2010 4:59:19 AM PDT by
2nd Bn, 11th Mar
(The "P" in democrat stands for patriotism)
To: sonofstrangelove
Thanks for the information – even if it is bad. I was a Supply Corps Officer onboard her in the 1970s. I’ll miss her.
I do hope that the name “USS Saratoga” will continue to live on in a new ship and that she will serve this great country as well as the others did.
26 posted on
05/06/2010 8:08:12 AM PDT by
hjhough
To: sonofstrangelove
My only contact with the Saratoga was during war games in the Med in 1992. We had just sunk them for the third time (simulated) when they shot a Turkish Destroyer with a live Sea Sparrow. Captain decided we should go hang out somewhere else for a while.
27 posted on
05/06/2010 8:24:54 AM PDT by
Pan_Yan
(The Constitution. How quaint.)
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