Posted on 09/24/2019 11:15:03 AM PDT by rockinqsranch
The ability to deploy twenty-three ships in five days, including four that had been identified in March 2019 as “Not Mission Capable,” is a questionable achievement. The ships that sailed on Saturday can transport 3.3 million square feet of cargo, 24 barges, 7,000 containers, and provide a repair base for a Marine Corps aviation wing. However, the successful departures do not mean all is well with the surge sealift fleet. It is not definitively known what caused the delays or how the ships performed once clear of the sea buoys.
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Nobody ever reads the good reviews so nobody writes good reviews. If this Bozo had told us what a great accomplishment had happened nobody would have posted it on Free Republic and it would have sat on the internet completely unnoticed.
But I posted the article because I thought 23 out of 28 old ships making it out to sea in 4 days upon no notification was very good.
Oh well. What do I know!?
Don’t tell me “it can’t be done”.
Raise the California! How they brought the ships sunk at Pearl Harbor back from the dead
“The damage the ship (USS Yorktown (CV-5)) had sustained after Coral Sea was considerable, and led to the Navy Yard inspectors estimating that she would need at least two weeks of repairs.”
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) in Dry Dock No. 1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, 29 May 1942, receiving urgent repairs for damage received in the Battle of Coral Sea. She left Pearl Harbor the next day to participate in the Battle of Midway.
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