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American aircraft carriers remain essential to commanding the seas
The Daily Caller ^ | 09/16/2011 | Robert O'Brien

Posted on 09/16/2011 11:50:01 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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1 posted on 09/16/2011 11:50:12 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Command the seas? Are you serious?

Americans want to command their smart phones, while watching the Kardashians.

We can’t afford our navy, and it will gradually be mothballed.

Then we can do as China tells us to do.


2 posted on 09/16/2011 11:56:02 AM PDT by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Don’t let Obama know how much we need carriers. He’ll cut their budgets, and redistribute the funds to union jobs and green energy.


3 posted on 09/16/2011 11:57:06 AM PDT by pallis
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To: brownsfan

I am pro-military, but I don’t see how when we are in as much debt as we are, we need 11 carrier groups when the most any other country can muster up is 1.


4 posted on 09/16/2011 12:03:13 PM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Aforementioned hull crack USS Princeton CG59... Photobucket
5 posted on 09/16/2011 12:05:00 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: brownsfan

I served on board two carriers; theRanger and the Kennedy.


6 posted on 09/16/2011 12:05:02 PM PDT by brivette
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To: brownsfan

There have always been idiots in this country, but to call Americans idiots in general is a disgrace.


7 posted on 09/16/2011 12:05:10 PM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight (“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.")
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

“There have always been idiots in this country, but to call Americans idiots in general is a disgrace.”

52% of Americans voted for Obama. That’s a majority.

I rest my case.


8 posted on 09/16/2011 12:07:34 PM PDT by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: brownsfan
"Swish.." Nothing but net.

It is hard to accept for some, but a brief look at the "popular culture" is very grim. The votes for Zero are indeed just another indicator.

9 posted on 09/16/2011 12:14:48 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: brownsfan

“52% of Americans voted for Obama. That’s a majority. I rest my case.”

The court is adjourned. Sad, isn’t it. Clearly half the country supported that idiot.


10 posted on 09/16/2011 12:19:15 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: RitchieAprile

A close-up view of a crack in the hull of the Aegis-guided missile cruiser USS PRINCETON (CG-59), part of the damage sustained when the vessel struck an Iraqi mine while on patrol in the Persian Gulf on February 18th in support of Operation Desert Storm. The incident resulted in the injury of three crew members and also inflicted propeller damage on the ship, however, the Princeton was still able to navigate and operate its weapons systems.


11 posted on 09/16/2011 12:19:55 PM PDT by al baby (Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
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To: rokkitapps
"I am pro-military, but I don’t see how when we are in as much debt as we are, we need 11 carrier groups when the most any other country can muster up is 1"

Aside from the fiscal ability to project power,one must also wonder,given the evolution of asymmetrical warfare and the proliferation of small missile technology among the second and third worlds, if carriers will be highly vulnerable in future conflicts? Will or should the ability to project air power from outer space be the military doctrine of the future?

12 posted on 09/16/2011 12:23:21 PM PDT by buckalfa (Confused and Bewildered With a Glass Half Empty)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

“...and Sea King helicopters taxi, take off, land and park on the warship’s four and a half acre flight deck”

I live in San Diego and I have not seen a Sea King helicopter in years.


13 posted on 09/16/2011 12:24:17 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: brivette

I was on the Kennedy and the FID...(Forrestal for you non navy types)


14 posted on 09/16/2011 12:30:54 PM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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To: brownsfan
52% of Americans voted for Obama. That’s a majority.

I rest my case.

52% of 131.3 million voters, not 52% of 300+ million Americans.

68.28 million Americans are idiots, which is only 22% or so of Americans.

15 posted on 09/16/2011 12:36:06 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: brivette

I was aboard the Nimitz and Carl Vinson with VA-35.


16 posted on 09/16/2011 12:38:58 PM PDT by dis.kevin (Dry white toast)
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To: Tatze
Well, I don't want to be the Devil's advocate, but the almost one hundred fifty million people that did not vote (and who were able to) are even dummer...
17 posted on 09/16/2011 12:41:06 PM PDT by ToxicMich
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Obama: “Where are the carriers?”

Aide: “At the piers, where you ordered them.”


18 posted on 09/16/2011 12:43:04 PM PDT by mrsmith
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“I don’t see how when we are in as much debt as we are, we need 11 carrier groups “

Well, when we deliver goods overseas we’ll need to protect them from being confiscated on the seas by our creditors.
Convoy duty in the post-Obama world...


19 posted on 09/16/2011 12:47:10 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: Tatze

“68.28 million Americans are idiots, which is only 22% or so of Americans.”

Do you really want to fight this fight?

Population: 300 million.
Number of eligible voters: 213 million
Turnout: 132 million
Obama votes: 68 million

213 - 132 = 81 million who didn’t vote. I submit to you, that anyone who didn’t vote in that election is as dumb as an Obama voter.

So, out of 213M eligible voters, 149M are not deep thinkers. That’s roughly 70% of Americans who aren’t really paying attention.

And of those under 18... many of them are being raised by that 70%.

Trying to defend an indefensible position isn’t a good move.


20 posted on 09/16/2011 12:52:04 PM PDT by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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