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USS Ticonderoga to Make Final Deployment Before Decommissioning
Navy NewsStand ^
| 3/10/2004
| Stacey Byington, Naval Station Pascagoula Public Affairs
Posted on 03/10/2004 1:57:43 PM PST by BykrBayb
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![](http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photodb/thumbnails/thumb_020118-N-6153P-001.jpg)
020118-N-6153P-001 Atlantic Ocean (Jan. 18, 2002) -- (From lead, in foreground) USS Underwood (FFG 36), USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), USS Carney (DDG 64), USS Sir Winston Churchill (DDG 81), and USS Taylor (FFG 50) steam in a "Ships Parade" formation during Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX) 2002. U.S. Navy Photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Phil Pruitt (RELEASED)
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posted on
03/10/2004 1:57:44 PM PST
by
BykrBayb
To: BykrBayb
HArd to believe the Ticonderoga is old enough to be decomissioned - guess I am too! :-(
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posted on
03/10/2004 2:01:51 PM PST
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Blueflag
Moe (on phone): You say there's a dead horse on Ticonderoga street? How do you spell it? Oh, you don't know either. Well, drag it over to First Street.
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posted on
03/10/2004 2:03:11 PM PST
by
1L
To: BykrBayb
Ticonderoga *bump*
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posted on
03/10/2004 2:05:45 PM PST
by
Cboldt
To: BykrBayb
I was at Fort Ticonderoga once. While waiting out a storm to cross the river a stoke of lightning hit the ground 2 feet from my car. A memorable day.
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posted on
03/10/2004 2:16:57 PM PST
by
UB355
To: Blueflag
I thought they just launched that ship! Seems like only yesterday I was reading about it. Gosh, maybe I'm getting older.
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posted on
03/10/2004 2:17:50 PM PST
by
68skylark
To: UB355
My kids had a ball there one rainy while vacationing at Lake George.
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posted on
03/10/2004 2:25:38 PM PST
by
capydick
("Think what your actions say to your soldiers.")
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To: Blueflag
By my reckoning she is only 21 years old. Hard to believe she is ready for mothballs already!
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posted on
03/10/2004 3:02:17 PM PST
by
Ronin
(When the fox gnaws, smile!!)
To: ping jockey
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posted on
03/10/2004 6:50:02 PM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Temporary tagline. Applied to State of New Jersey for permanent tagline (12/24/03).)
To: 68skylark
They "just" did launch the Tico! 20 years is nothing for a warship, almost like asking a 35 year old athlete if his life's over. Ships, notably carriers, have entered SLEPs (service life extension programs) to get more use out of them.
I think this is a disturbing indication that our fleet is shrinking, as it is projected to go from the approx 330 combatants we have today down to 295 or so in the next 15 years - not a good sign.
CGVet58
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:43:48 PM PST
by
CGVet58
(God has granted us liberty, and we owe Him courage in return)
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To: ping jockey
AG-24 USS Semmes (ex DD-189)?
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posted on
03/11/2004 11:59:02 AM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Temporary tagline. Applied to State of New Jersey for permanent tagline (12/24/03).)
To: Blueflag
I was assigned to that ship when I was in the reserves here in Idaho. Pretty good deal really.. Fly out to Florida for the weekend!
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posted on
03/11/2004 12:01:08 PM PST
by
nobody_knows
(It's the national security, and future supreme court appointments STUPID!)
To: UB355
I was at Fort Ticonderoga once. Me, too. I was on the USS Ticonderoga once as well, as a vistor. Me and a group from a major defense contractor north of Boston got a tour when she was in port at the Black Falcon Pier. Pretty kewl.
To: BykrBayb
![](http://www.picturehistory.com/bin/dropshadow.cgi?id=17163)
I'm sure there will be another vessel that carries this name.
To: BykrBayb
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posted on
03/11/2004 12:12:17 PM PST
by
Lockbar
To: CGVet58; hchutch
They "just" did launch the Tico! 20 years is nothing for a warship, almost like asking a 35 year old athlete if his life's over. Ships, notably carriers, have entered SLEPs (service life extension programs) to get more use out of them.The first flight Ticos (CG 47 through CG 51) have the Mark 26 missile launchers, and are the last ships in the fleet carrying them. These are getting O-L-D (they stopped manufacturing spares in the 1980s), and keeping up the hardware for such a small number of ships is expensive. Unfortunately, they can't be upgraded to the Mk 41 VLS because of weight/moment issues.
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posted on
03/11/2004 12:17:02 PM PST
by
Poohbah
("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
To: Poohbah
Gee, didn't we recently decomm four (4) vessels with the Mk 26? The Virginia-class CGNs? And who's bright idea was it to NOT make enough spares when making them was cheap?
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posted on
03/11/2004 12:22:14 PM PST
by
hchutch
(Why did the Nazgul bother running from Arwen's flash flood? They only managed to die tired.)
To: hchutch
Gee, didn't we recently decomm four (4) vessels with the Mk 26? The Virginia-class CGNs? And who's bright idea was it to NOT make enough spares when making them was cheap?Not "recently." Those launchers were cannibalized for spares, and those spares have been used up.
As for not making enough spares: blame Congress. The Navy asked for the money in the 1970s and 1980s, and Congress kept deleting the funds.
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posted on
03/11/2004 12:34:58 PM PST
by
Poohbah
("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
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