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Angry Seas
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Posted on 05/11/2012 9:37:32 PM PDT by Windflier

A video salute to all you sailors and mariners out there. You're the bravest people on earth.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: maritime; naval; oceans; seas
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To: oh8eleven

I was USMC, did a Carib Cruise on the 1162, Wahkiakum County, in late ‘68-’69.
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Ours was the Terrell County, 1157, -same class - we were homeported in Yokosuka Japan and made the ‘milk run’ to Okinawa many, many times.

Have often wondered about being in North Atlantic in one of those ‘bath tubs’.....


41 posted on 05/12/2012 7:50:14 AM PDT by xrmusn (#6/98# Let's start from scratch by voting ALL incumbents out.)
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To: Daffynition
"Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1 arrive aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) on day 2 of the ship’s final deployment."

Is Enterprise being retired because she's outlived her usefulness, or become outmoded?

42 posted on 05/12/2012 10:34:25 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: heshtesh
...thought my arms were going to fall off by the time we reached the St. Clair river

Boy, do I know the feeling. It took me a whole day to recover from piloting that sailboat across San Fran bay and upriver. Never been so wiped out by something in my whole life.

It gave me a great appreciation for the helmsmen of the old sailing ships.

43 posted on 05/12/2012 10:39:46 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SERE_DOC
I HATE the ocean! Nearest land 2 miles straight down!

LOL!

44 posted on 05/12/2012 10:42:14 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rfreedom4u
When I see this I wonder how men from several hundred years ago mustered up the courage to go to sea in ships much smaller than what we have today. Thank God for men like them.

Very true. Our European ancestors would never have made it to this continent without such brave men to pilot those angry seas.

America owes its very existence to mariners. Interesting, eh?

45 posted on 05/12/2012 10:46:43 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

This is all I know:

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/modern/uss-enterprise-cvn-65-retirement-27666.html


46 posted on 05/12/2012 11:31:31 AM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Windflier
Great video, thanks for posting. Made me think of this pic:


47 posted on 05/12/2012 12:04:32 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I remember that picture and several other similar shots of that lighthouse. Makes you wonder how they even built the thing, doesn’t it?


48 posted on 05/12/2012 1:30:28 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Daffynition

The carrier “work” I did as a young man was the most fun I ever had with my clothes on!

Those intrepid mariners who venture out into the open ocean in small boats are guilty of violating FRank’s Law of the Sea: “Never, never get out of the sight of land in a boat less than 1,000 feet long!”


49 posted on 05/12/2012 10:42:53 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Taxman
Engaging the sea in a small boat is a humbling experience.


50 posted on 05/13/2012 5:10:37 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Daffynition

Ignoring FRank’s Law of the Sea is a humbling experience!


51 posted on 05/13/2012 10:23:22 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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