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USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in Port Soon
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| 2-26-21
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Posted on 02/26/2021 8:49:58 AM PST by FrogMom
The URL is for the SanDiegoWebCam watching the harbor.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: nimitz
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My Grand-Daughter is stationed on the Nimitz!
They have been deployed since last March. The whole community is watching.
Also watching https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:359203/zoom:10 which reports the Nimitz has just turned toward port and slowed to 13 knots.
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posted on
02/26/2021 8:49:58 AM PST
by
FrogMom
To: FrogMom
Thanks for her service and all the active, retired and former military folks. Even though we’re now #1 on the terrorist watch list. Thanks joe.
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posted on
02/26/2021 8:54:08 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
To: FrogMom
Wow, that’s a long deployment!
Back in my time, a Westpac was 6-8 months, and coming home was really sweet.
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posted on
02/26/2021 8:54:30 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
To: FrogMom
Nimitz is a good old boat. I knew the CO back in the early 80s.
Best wishes to your granddaughter!
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posted on
02/26/2021 8:56:40 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
To: brownsfan
Indian Ocean deployments were a year, back in the writing-letters days.
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posted on
02/26/2021 8:57:28 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
To: brownsfan
They sat in Bremerton WA almost a month in quarantine to make sure they weren’t taking the ‘Rona with them. They have had no shore leave, they are exhausted.
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posted on
02/26/2021 8:58:12 AM PST
by
FrogMom
(Time marches on...)
To: Tax-chick
” the writing-letters days”. LOL! I remember those all too well.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:00:03 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
To: rktman
I remember them too! Remember Desert Storm when they didn’t get their supply-lines in place fast enough and had mil people committing suicide because they had NO information from home for months.
I wrote to FrogDad every day that he was gone, when the mail finally caught up, he got a whole stack of letters.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:04:55 AM PST
by
FrogMom
(Time marches on...)
To: rktman
Things that make you feel old ...
One of my daughters is in the Marines in Okinawa. I can text her pictures of the cats any time.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:06:32 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
To: FrogMom
I wrote to my daughters every of Coast Guard and USMC boot camp. I figured the daily news of home would be so boring it would remind them of why they signed up!
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:07:42 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:09:08 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
To: rktman
I’m sure the cats would write and tell her how awful we are, if they could.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:11:23 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
To: FrogMom
Welcome back USS Nimitz and her crew! Enjoy your leave sailors.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:14:37 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: Tax-chick
Things that make you feel old ... One of my daughters is in the Marines in Okinawa. I can text her pictures of the cats any time.We have come a long way from snail-mail days and the time when making an overseas call was a big expensive deal. I actually wrote and mailed a letter yesterday... first this year.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:16:49 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: Tax-chick
One of my daughters is in the Marines in Okinawa. I can text her pictures of the cats any time.My son is in the UK. We text several times a day.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:17:34 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: FrogMom
“They sat in Bremerton WA almost a month in quarantine to make sure they weren’t taking the ‘Rona with them. They have had no shore leave, they are exhausted.”
That’s cruel. The longest I went without any shore leave was a little short of a month at sea. By the time we hit port, we were ready to kill each other.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:20:03 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
To: FrogMom
Thanks for posting this. Watching USS Sterrit (sp?) DDG-104 coming in. Part of the Nimitz group.
I understand Nimitz is currently 20 miles out.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:21:52 AM PST
by
hoagy62
(DTCM&OTTH)
To: FrogMom
On returning to port in San Diego, passing under the Coronado bridge made the return official, at least to me.
If I remember correctly, aircraft carriers were ported on Coronado.
To: FrogMom
I remember many times when my ship (USS Peleliu) was making that turn into San Diego Harbor.
We barely made it under the Coronado Bridge.
Back then, if it was your final WESTPAC before your EAOS, you'd throw your white hat over the side when passing under that bridge. If it floated, you got bad luck.
Mine was filled with bolts. Sunk right to the bottom!
I wonder if that's still a tradition.
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:23:38 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
To: FrogMom
Great sight,thanks for the memories. Back in the day there were no females on my ship, a heavy cruiser,
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posted on
02/26/2021 9:34:39 AM PST
by
kenmcg
(tHE WHOLE )
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