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To: tgusa

did anybody see the live stream of the scuttle? i couldn’t get it. this was poignant for me, as i sailed on her sister ship, USNS Gen HH Arnold a couple times. i know folks who sailed on the Vandy and even on both ships. the Vandy did most of her AF sailing on the Eastern Test Range, and the Arnold was mostly Pacific. sometimes, they worked together as with some of the Apollo space shots. i was privileged to have been on the last two missions of the Arnold before she was mothballed.
When i first heard about the idea to scrap the Vandenberg a couple years ago, i was saddened. now, i’m all for it.
does anybody know if they scraped the cyrillic lettering from the movie off the hull before she went down? ;) reeko


13 posted on 05/27/2009 10:13:34 AM PDT by reeko (G.I. Woodshop)
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To: reeko

I saw it; there are also photos on Fox News online. She went down quickly, less than 3 minutes. It was quite dignified. I don’t know about the cyrillic lettering - suspect they did probably scrape it off.


14 posted on 05/27/2009 10:23:28 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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