Wow! There are some guys that deserve some time off. Wonder if Biden will greet them?
She still looks great, and deadly. A huge big thank you to the entire crew. I hope there will be medals and ribbons for all the sailors and some well deserved shore leave too!
I was thinking about the voyage of the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron during the Russo-Japanese war. The voyage took seven months from departure to destruction at Tsushimna. The squadron did make stops on the way but those ship much have been in horrible shape.
I didn’t realize a ship deteriorates so quickly. I know saltwater is highly corrosive, but man the sea is a mean b!tch.
So, how long will this be in dock getting cleaned up and painted?
That’s why sailors would jokingly call their ships “rust buckets.”
Questions left unanswered in the article:
The ship left before the pandemic.
1) Was there a case on board?
2) Then was it herd immunity?
3) If there never was a case, did they have to wear masks?
4) And last have to ask in today’s Navy: How many pregnancies?
Just curious.
Looks like the same copy, but the the UK newspaper dressed it up with more photos and repeated themselves, as the DM likes to do.
So - good job posting the "best" source of this event, and thanks for the pics.
At least our US press did cover it, if only in So. VA.
Chipping and painting the hull in drydock could provide fantastic social distancing jobs.
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Ho-lee-crap. I did 93 days in (primarily) the Indian Ocean on CVN65 back in the 80s. It was very unpleasant. I feel for these guys.........
We spent 210 days in the Persian Gulf, Med, and Atlantic and our boat didn’t look like that. Painting duty was regular order. Seems the Navy’s cutting back on maintenance...
How does this compare with deployments during WWII?
Why can’t they do maintenance such as painting while underway? That captain needs to get his ass kicked for the condition of his vessel!
Now those surface squids know somewhat how is feels to be a bubblehead on a boomer, except they got to see the skies, daylight, moonlight, etc.
‘Rona or not. This is not something the Navy should be proud of. It’s more of an indictment on management of ships and assists.
So did any crewmembers get the virus while in this enforced isolation period?
My My!!
How times have changed.
In 1957 I was aboard a ship that was in an Amphibious Squadron (COMPHIBRON 1) that went to WESTPAC with the entire squadron and we set sail in the MIDDLE of the ASIAN FLU pandemic and returned CONUS in early 1958.. DIDN’T miss a Liberty Port, don’t recall ‘fighting’ over masks but am sure they have worked up quite a ‘cocktail for us young, unsuspecting swabbies as we were used to getting shots on a daily basis.
When I first saw the ‘miracle’ drug this year I opined that possibly all that quinine etc we ingested in the 50s/60s while in WESTPAC (to ward off malaria) may have built up an immunity.
Strange but all of us from the 1957 adventure (admittedly only a few) that still manage to ‘stay in touch’ are still around and all in our 80s...
Remember WE (those of us older than 65 or so) were going to DIE if we didn’t lock ourselves in the attic/basement.—THIS time around
Who gets to scrape the hull?
That’s hardly “covered in rust.” As one who has been to sea for a length of time (on an amphib) I could not imagine 215 days on a destroyer. Those things are tiny!
The crew all racked up some serious sea time for their career files. Promotions coming for everyone.
We are so lucky covid didn’t hit during WWII. Imagine what the Japanese could have accomplished as the Pacific Fleet cowered in port or hid on the open seas for a year to avoid exposing sailors to the sniffles. Absolutely ridiculous.