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USS Tripoli Quietly Leaves on Maiden Deployment
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | May 2, 2022 | Sam LaGrone and Gidget Fuentes

Posted on 05/03/2022 9:05:32 AM PDT by Retain Mike

“We refer to the ship as ‘assault carrier 7.’ And assault is traditional for an LHD, LHA,” Capt. Joel Lang, the ship’s commander, said during an April 3 media event aboard Tripoli. “We have the space for a battalion landing team, we have about 1,000 infantrymen. And typically the air combat element is a blend of rotary and tilt-rotor in order to enable that assault force to go ashore. What we’re doing right now is lightning carrier, and we are proving the operational concept. … We are proving the tactics and the techniques and the procedures to employ the lightning carrier concept.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: amphibious; marinecorps; marines; midway; navy; tripoli; usmc; usstripoli
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To: Tell It Right

USS Ukraine


21 posted on 05/03/2022 10:13:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: PIF

Are those planes somehow anchored to the deck?


22 posted on 05/03/2022 10:15:05 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: PIF
My first thought when I see this picture is how much work was required by the plane pushers to get ready for this photo op.

On a related subject, I was Officer of the Deck on an LST when we served with an Amphibious Ready Group in the Tonkin Gulf. We usually steamed at double standard distance or 2,000 yards apart. For a photo we moved to 1,000 or standard distance. I remember how much larger the Iwo Jima looked as I came up to take the watch.

23 posted on 05/03/2022 10:16:58 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: carriage_hill

Are those planes somehow anchored to the deck?


Special US Navy issued Super Glue!


24 posted on 05/03/2022 10:21:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Tell It Right

Have you read ANY US history?

Do you understand how these ships such as these are named?


25 posted on 05/03/2022 10:23:17 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: PIF

Gorilla Glue is PO’d.


26 posted on 05/03/2022 10:23:19 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Vermont Lt

What other ships are there named after an enemy nation (or enemy city-state)?


27 posted on 05/03/2022 10:24:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: carriage_hill

Gorilla Glue is PO’d.


Tell them to bid higher next time or hire an Admiral.


28 posted on 05/03/2022 10:33:07 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DesertRhino

“Not fleet carriers. You might be referring to escort carriers. It is roughly the same length as an Essex Carrier.”

Escort carriers were built on a commercial ship hull, so they were relatively cheap to build, and could go on line quickly. There were more escort carriers built during WWII than capital fleet carriers. The Brits called them “Woolworth” carriers.

I’ve read some books that mentioned the escort carriers; one of the best books was “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors,” which was about the Battle of Samar. While principally about the destroyers in that battle, it did address the escort carriers. Great book, by the way, if you haven’t already read it.

We also had some light carriers that were smaller than the capital fleet carriers, and carried about the same number of aircraft as the escort carriers.


29 posted on 05/03/2022 10:34:37 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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Essex class were not quite 37K tons. Tiny little sidebar:
Naval Heritage | Jonathan Parshall: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
June 24, 2014 | U.S. Naval War College
Naval Heritage | Jonathan Parshall: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway | June 24, 2014 | U.S. Naval War College

30 posted on 05/03/2022 10:41:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: rellic
It is depressing. At one point we had the best systems in the world, and the best people operating them.

Now, we may or may not have the best systems in the world, and we don't have the best people operating them, we have the "right" people operating them.

And those two are not the same thing.

31 posted on 05/03/2022 10:50:47 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Tell It Right

Thanks for your reply!


32 posted on 05/03/2022 11:09:38 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: carriage_hill

My bad eyes see at least a six point tie-down...standard for ocean operations...:)

Many a time I carried three tie down chains over one shoulder, and three over the other! More fun than the six over one shoulder and six over the other!


33 posted on 05/03/2022 11:13:17 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Tell It Right; Dan in Wichita

We do have the USS Belleau Wood, which was enemy held at the time, or the USS Saipan, which was real enemy territory, part of the nation of Japan even before the war, as was the USS Iwo Jima.


34 posted on 05/03/2022 11:16:01 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: rlmorel

Thanks for pointing those out. I had no idea we had ships named like that.


35 posted on 05/03/2022 11:18:55 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

LOL, I get that, we don’t think of them that way. And of course, the USS Okinawa was another one.


36 posted on 05/03/2022 11:30:20 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Tell It Right

It’s the rule of kicking ass and taking names.


37 posted on 05/03/2022 11:38:00 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: rlmorel

I can’t see anything, even with my reading/ computer specs on. You’ve got *good* eyes.


38 posted on 05/03/2022 11:52:47 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Tell It Right

Ya may be over-thinking it a tad. Tripoli was also a battle - and the naming is a memorium to a famous battle. Similar names would include Guadalcanal and Meuse-Argonne.


39 posted on 05/03/2022 12:01:59 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: carriage_hill
Are those planes somehow anchored to the deck?

Yes, but slightly different for the military


40 posted on 05/03/2022 12:13:52 PM PDT by deport
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