"Speaking about the Enterprise's 'inactivation,' Capt. William C. Hamilton Jr. told The Press 'This is something nobody wants to do, but it has to be done. So let's have people who love the ship do it. That's the dignity of it."
1 posted on
08/17/2014 9:23:43 AM PDT by
virgil283
To: virgil283
We knew it was scheduled, but it is still sad.
She can’t even have a decent burial/scuttle since the nuclear engines are integrated into her architecture.
RIP and may your upcoming namesake have fair winds and following seas.
3 posted on
08/17/2014 9:28:13 AM PDT by
freedumb2003
(AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
To: rlmorel
![](http://www.collectoons.com/imgtoon/701/702/20100101_121507chode.gif)
ping...
4 posted on
08/17/2014 9:28:24 AM PDT by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: virgil283; Chode; SgtBob; B4Ranch; nascarnation; All
A Sad thing, but we all know at some point it would happen. Too bad we can’t take the classified stuff out and make Her a Museum.
6 posted on
08/17/2014 9:29:22 AM PDT by
mabarker1
(Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
To: virgil283
“The Press said.A ninth USS Enterprise will eventually be built and may include parts of the eighth ship being disassembled”
Just don’t let J.J. Abrams anywhere near it.
7 posted on
08/17/2014 9:30:44 AM PDT by
BigCinBigD
(...Was that okay?)
To: virgil283
We have nuclear powered aircraft? Who knew?
9 posted on
08/17/2014 9:43:38 AM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: virgil283
We have nuclear powered aircraft? Who knew?
10 posted on
08/17/2014 9:51:00 AM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: virgil283
She’s showing her age in that photo, but still formidable.
12 posted on
08/17/2014 10:03:54 AM PDT by
IronJack
To: virgil283
When I was a young girl, the USS Enterprise came to Boston. It was too big to dock, so it moored out in the Harbor. Dad and i sailed out to see it on a 13.5 foot Sunfish.
I will NEVER forget that as long as I live!
23 posted on
08/17/2014 11:04:29 AM PDT by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: virgil283
I still think the smartest thing to have done would have been to simply give her to Israel. Her compatibility was a problem for us but would not pose a problem to Israeli engineers. It would have cost $0. It would have made Israel more able to defend itself, needing less reliance on us. It would have decreased everyone’s will to invade them.
Heck, I’d even toss in a few surface ships and an air wing or 2. I’m growing weary of futilely trying to keep the peace there. Israel would be more than willing to defend themselves if better armed.
28 posted on
08/17/2014 12:17:15 PM PDT by
FreeInWV
(Have you had enough change yet?)
To: virgil283
My dad was stationed in Gitmo, when Enterprise arrived for her shake-down cruise. He arranged for me and my brother to go out one day on her training schedule.
When they say powerful, I laughed. I remember the rooster tail she made as they headed South from Cuba... and I followed her in 1968 in the South China Sea, on a WW2 era Fram2 Tin Can (USS Perkins). I don't know her true speed, but she was FAST!!!
![](http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/enterprise/Documents/Enterprise/bow.jpg)
43 posted on
08/18/2014 2:16:44 AM PDT by
WVKayaker
(Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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