unfriggin believable!!!I am hopeful that one of the CVs in mothballs will become a museum ship. They are so historically important. They played a key role in “winning the peace” during the Cold War, there should be at least one preserved as a monument to that era. The Forrestal was commissioned in 1955 and served the entire Cold War.
unfriggin believable!!!Well, I wish the old girl could have become a museum, but as she served in war, so too will she serve in peace. Her hull and fixtures will generate a lot of income for the scrap industry, and probably end putting food on a lot of families’ tables as a result. Certainly, I can live with that.
I’d hoped the City of San Diego would have preserved the USS CONSTELLAION (CV-64) vice USS MIDWAY (CV-41). I heard that USS SARATOGA (CV-60) is too far gone for a museum ship. That leaves CV-64 and USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67).
It would make much more sense to keep it afloat and sell offshore housing real cheap.
That’s a LOT of metal back in circulation.
Scrap? A more enterprising investor would have bought it and turned it into an off shore, tax free, gambling resort of some sort complete with deck covered sea sand and trees, trap shooting, golf driving range.....etc.....