The Guild 6-25-2002 USS George Washington

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[BigWaveBetty]

Welcome to the USS George Washington

The USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) is a nuclear powered aircraft carrier built by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Newport News, Virginia. The keel was laid on August 25, 1986 and the ship was commissioned on July 4, 1992. Two nuclear reactors are used for propulsion (the ship is capable of steaming more than one million miles before refueling) turning 4 five bladed screws that weigh 66,220 pounds each. The GW can travel at speeds over thirty knots and is 1,094 feet long, 257 feet wide and has a height equal to a twenty-four story building (244 feet). The ship can accommodate approximately 80 aircraft and has a flight deck 4.5 acres in size, using four elevators that are 3,880 square feet each to move planes between the flight deck and the hangar bay.With a combat load, the GW displaces almost 97,000 tons and carries over 6,000 crew members. It can distill 400,000 gallons of water and serves 18,000 meals per day. There are over 2,500 compartments on board requiring 2,520 tons of air conditioning capacity (enough to cool over 2,000 homes). The ship uses two anchors that weigh 30 tons each, with each link of the anchor chain weighing 360 pounds.

Here are a few of the statistics that reflect the amount of time and effort that go into running the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73).

In an average year:
Medical sees 10,822 sick call patients, does 256 flight physicals,completes 1,599 physical exams, performs 103 surgeries, processes 3,097 x-rays, does 38,276 lab procedures, fills 16,811 prescriptions, and gives 11,385 immunizations.

In an average month:
Dental sees 500 patients requiring 200 exams, 150 cleanings, 53 tooth extractions, 10 crowns, and 75 fillings.

Disbursing processes 250 travel claims, maintains eight ATM's with a monthly average withdrawal of $320,500, and handles a payroll of $2,276,000 every two weeks.

In an average month:
Combat Systems Department processes more than 400,000 e-mail messages (2.4 million during a six month deployment) and operates over 1400 computers on 19 Local Area Networks.

A flight deck officer launches an aircraft from Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW 17) as other flight deck sailors look on.

An F/A-18 Hornet from the Fighter Attack Squadron Eight One (VFA 81) Rampagers prepares to launch
off the flight deck of the USS George Washington CVN 73.

Aircraft from Carrier Air Wing Seventeen ( CVW 17) fly high above USS George Washington. An F-14B
Tomcat assigned to the Fighter Squadron One Zero Three ( VF-103) Jolly Rogers, refuels from an S-3 Viking
assigned to the Antisubmarine Squadron Three Zero ( VS-30) Diamond Cutters while and F/A 18 Hornet from
Fighter Attack Squadron Eight Three ( VFA 83) Rampagers flies near.

George Washington prepares to pull alongside USS Monterey (CG 61) for a fueling at sea.

[Carolina]

Oh, my eyes! The banana suit and headband.

[mountaineer]

This happened Monday but I missed it:

Bringing a festive close to a most bizarre and memorable academic year, the graduates of Stuyvesant High School yesterday got their marching orders from former President Bill Clinton at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

"Know and learn from one another," Clinton told the more than 600 graduates of Stuyvesant and their families and friends as he quoted in succession from the Koran, the Torah, the New Testament and Buddha. "Turn aside no strangers. Overcome evil with good. Love your neighbors. It's a great world, and you can make it better." full story, Newsday.

Is it possible to be a greater waste of oxygen than this guy?

[Carolina]

Man, sounds like he's quoting from Desiderata

Here's a line from it:

Avoid loud & aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

That's you, Oh Bent One! You are a vexation. Away with you.

[lodwick]

Does anyone else have the feeling that
things are spinning/slipping totally
out of control in this world?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Dear heavens, look at that headband. It's dangerously close to being a crown!!!

[Carolina]

Yikes! I think I'll turn off the market ticker now.

Now for a little silliness: Scientists Create Mannequin That Sweats

Fan Jintu, associate professor at the
Institute of Textiles and Clothing at Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, poses June 26, 2002,
with a mannequin called 'Walter.'
Filled with pipes containing heated water, Walter has a 'body' temperature
of 37 degrees Celsius, three layers of custom-built 'skin' and motorized limbs
that 'sweat' when hot. The 'sweating mannequin' has been designed
to help designers develop more comfortable military clothing,
sportswear and even spacesuits. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)

[mountaineer]

Anything in particular lead you to that conclusion, JL?

[mountaineer]

Why doesn't she just wrap herself in neon lights that flash "Look at me! Look at me!"?

[Endeavor]

Oooh, I'm watching Ann and Katie go at it. Katie is not talking about the book, but busy taking offense to Ann calling her an "affable Eva Braun." I'm so happy I got back from my morning appt early to see this.

Oh, now Katie is getting really b*tchy, saying that Ann was fired from National Review for her post 9-11 column and does she still think we should invade their country and convert them to Christianity? She's also trying to marginalize Ann as some wacko right winger since even the conservatively straight laced NR fired her. Ann's giving it right back at her. Katie was loaded for bear and very attacking.

I think it is a shame that Katie, and by representation "Today" weren't able to do an interview about the book's main ideas; rather they felt it necessary to attempt an eviceration of Ann, not her ideals. Typical liberals. At least by example, they proved Ann's main conjecture in the book.

[lodwick]

;-) Not a conclusion, more of a "feeling" in general.
Let's see if I can come up with some examples:
NY electing a PIAPS who refuses to bathe.
Any group that pays thousands of $$$ to hear the oxygen waster.
Dim/lib liars.
The Forest Service. (They've surely "serviced" the forests.)
Sweating Japanese dummies.
Billy, and all the other abused/kidnapped/murdered children.
Yassar still breathing.
Islamist parents celebrating their exploding kids.
Our immigration policies.
Political correctness.
Anyone listening to jesse or al or louis.
Junior high kids having oral parties. Thanks bent, it's not reall sex.
Today's news that 33% of American workers pay NO income tax.
Rosie O'Donut having children in her home.
Rosie O'ThreeHundred Pounder's partner getting seeded.
HLL's power outage.
Enron, GlobalCrossing, WorldComm, whoever's next to crater.
Jocko, Liza, and all that crowd.
11 September 2001

I really need to stop myself.

Back out to Bump for Billy and do some thread bombing.

[mountaineer]

Ah well, when you put it that way ...

[lodwick]

;-) On the other hand, there's:

God
Jesus
The Holy Spirit
Our Families
Our Pets
Our homes
The best food in this world
Clean air and water
Indoor plumbing
HVAC systems
Our current Administration
Our automobiles
Computers and algore's internet
The Guild & FR
UPS & FedEx
Our health
The best health care in the world
The best restaurants in the world
Good friends
Living in the greatest country in the world

There's so many things for which I thank God.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

So you think that she was dressing to match her little folder, or is her suit so bright that the folder had no choice but to turn electric banana yellow?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Jim,

Now you are on the right track. We have so much more to be thankful for.

I have travelled to many third world countries, and hopefully I will be going to Afghanistan soon, and I know for certain that we do live in the greatest place on earth.

And thank you for worrying about my power woes. Even though I was Camping At Home, it's better than living in 99% of anywhere else on the planet.

[daisyscarlett]

Nice catch on the canary yellow matching folder. I can't take it, the neon yellow pantsuit and the return of Hillary Headband on the same day?.....It is just too, too much...

[daisyscarlett]

Well if you ever have a need for a gas mask in your travels, might as well make it a customized one...

[lodwick]

;-) Wow! Watch out for the 'stans. Take plenty of Spam & duct tape.

[codebreaker]

Good heavens, anyone have a close in shot of the bananna suit with headband/crown on PIAPS?

[lodwick]

[lodwick]

Schizo nope, jerkwad yes. Surfin is a buttpipe who likes to rub his agenda in the face of people in pain.


580 posted on 6/26/02 12:21 PM Central by Xenalyte

Xena, for some reason, cracks me up. ;-)