Navy bids farewell to storied warship USS Enterprise

afp ^ | Nov 4 2011 | AFP

[misanthrope]

Sad day

G-2 Div, WEPS CVN65 81-84

[fremont_steve]

Mike - you don’t expect ME to argue do you?

[rusty schucklefurd]

ref: “Oh, and a rowboat, USS Wookie.”

I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything at my computer keyboard when I read this because it would be drenched after I read your comment above.

[A.A. Cunningham]

ships

Ship. The Enterprise is the only boat in the class.

[Churchillspirit]

Well Rusty, as you know, the Navy does not need so many ships now - or horses or bayonets, so I guess a rubber dingy would suffice.

[Squawk 8888]

I like what France does for its money- they have portraits of famous people but none of them are politicians. The ones I remember were Marie Curie and Antoine du St-Exupery.

[Conservative4Ever]

Just damn, the USS Kitty Hawk has been retired too? I had the thrill of being on the Kitty Hawk during a family cruise day back in the early 80’s. All I can say about that day is WOW!

[Happy Rain]

Either an Essex class Enterprisde or the WWII original I suppose—many Essex class carriers were scrapped after the war and others replaced by the new Forestall class super carriers.

[MarkL]

Wasn’t there a space shuttle named Enterprise before the warp drive vessels came along?

Yes, but it's been retired for decades now, and never even made it into low earth orbit :-(

Mark

[Conservative4Ever]

Garbage scow?

[Happy Rain]

The last diesel driven carrier Kitty Hawk had an extended service in Japan because the nips wouldn't tolerate a nuke ship in their harbors.

The anti nuke activists and survivors of our Atom bomb attacks finally started dying off and the Japanese are more realistic now—especially with China, as usual, wanting to swallow them up now more than ever.

[null and void]

Wonder if the same old traditional love/hate relationship between the Nav and the Corps still goes on...in spite of the rivalry we had each others’ backs.

Nahhh, these days everyone recognized that the Marines are just a department of the Navy.

The MEN'S Department...

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: “. . .so I guess a rubber dingy would suffice.”

I agree, a very small dingy, too.

[null and void]

I guess I could be OK with an Edison dollar, or a Tesla Twenty, but where does one draw the line? A Soros C-note?

[Happy Rain]

Close, but not quite—marines are the “menses” department of the Navy.

dumb, dumb dumb dumb duh doh, dumb dumb! dumb! dumb!

[SevenofNine]

Don’t worry she be recycle as USS Enterprise with cowboy like Capt Kirk and logical Vulcan/Human Hybrid Mr Spock and very annoyed Dr McCoy in 23th century

[SevenofNine]

Live long and prosper

[Conservative4Ever]

It was a carrier...that i do remember...and very big, my 8 yrs old eyes thought it very big anyway...then what happened to the original WWII ship you mentioned and probably the one I was on.

[null and void]

Menses? Only the WAMs...

[SevenofNine]

I agree

How this thread turn into Star Trek thread all sudden LOL!