Bonhomme Richard fights Serapis and wins.
And now they've gone and messed up her flight deck!!
Posted on 08/23/2014 4:07:48 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
exactly
I wish my FR Bookmarks still worked they had a lot of the issues documented :>{ I will say this much. Two carriers immediately following 9/11 unable to get underway was not the fault of the two Captains who's careers were ruined. You can't fix what isn't funded especially in a shipyard venue where many repairs must take place.
We need a Sec of Defense with anatomic fortitude enough to stand up to POTUS & Congress. Not even Cheney fit that description sad to say. The downturns began under his Sec of Def watch.
I wish my FR Bookmarks still worked they had a lot of the issues documented :>{ I will say this much. Two carriers immediately following 9/11 unable to get underway was not the fault of the two Captains who's careers were ruined. You can't fix what isn't funded especially in a shipyard venue where many repairs must take place.
We need a Sec of Defense with anatomic fortitude enough to stand up to POTUS & Congress. Not even Cheney fit that description sad to say. The downturns began under his Sec of Def watch.
Yes—very good!
From Wiki:
“Little is known about the early career of Bonhomme Richard other than she was originally an East Indiaman named Duc de Duras; a merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765. In that capacity she sailed between France and the Orient until purchased by King Louis XVI of France in early 1779 and placed under the command John Paul Jones on 4 February.[2] The size and armament of Duc de Duras made her a rough equivalent of half of a 64-gun ship of the line[3]
Jones renamed her Bon Homme Richard - usually rendered in more correct French as Bonhomme Richard, to honor Benjamin Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris whose Poor Richard’s Almanac was published in France under the title of Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard.[1]”
More here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(1765)
Don't we all know of a web site that had the same trouble? Only in gvt does the screwup get a chance to screw it up again.
Contract for the resurface...?
Why. Make the original guy repair it on his own dime.
A different ship with the same name?
That’s an old ship
My cousin served on that ship in the 1960’s too. I thought they had retired her.
I hear you!
Yes. It is one of the names that gets reused
Bonhomme Richard fights Serapis and wins.
And now they've gone and messed up her flight deck!!
Luckily it was under warranty and they got double their money back ...
USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD 6) AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP (MULTI-PURPOSE) The ship in question...Commission Date: 08/15/1998
You don’t know what I’m complaining about? Are you serious?
I’m complaining about the loss of the constitutional republic. I’m complaining because my grandchildren probably won’t live in a free country. I’m complaining about the loss of the Fourth Estate, without which the people can’t hear the truth and make intelligent decisions.
Is that enough?
I recall he suspended his campaign to vote "yea" for printing more money. "To "save" the economy, don'cha know. Then he picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Once his poll numbers went up past Obama's, he put a muzzle on her. Finally, he told a senior citizen that didn't like Obama that she needn't worry. That Obama was a good man and that she could trust him. (Wonderful, John. You even made stump speeches endorsing Obama at your own rally!)
Deep down, I think McCain enjoys being an unaccountable Senator. For any reason that occurs to him, he can point the finger of blame at 99 of his peers and anyone else he doesn't care for and no will notice. All that power and no responsibility? And you can keep the gig for six years at a stretch, term after term?
Even the President doesn't have it that easy and he finally figured it out!
First ship my husband ever served on and she had a wooden deck back then...1950.
From him being that author of Poor Richard’s Almanac?
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