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To: Eric in the Ozarks

When they were recommissioned in the '80s they all converted to burn DFM. From what I have read it was one of the most difficult aspects of the process.


197 posted on 07/03/2006 2:55:37 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Twenty years in the Navy. Never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
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To: GATOR NAVY

I had read that because the Iowas could carry over 2 million gallons of fuel, they because lighter vessels for the destroyers. Some tanker, eh ?


202 posted on 07/03/2006 3:19:35 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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