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To: Conservative4Ever
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.

91 posted on 11/04/2012 9:02:10 AM PST by Happy Rain ("Remember the Benghazi 4")
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To: Happy Rain

Thank you for your explanation. Being female and never served in the military, most things military are a mystery. I will now have to call my older brother and pick his memory about the Enterprise. His career was all things military as he served as a Marine officer.


102 posted on 11/04/2012 9:24:02 AM PST by Conservative4Ever (The Obamas = rude, crude and socially unacceptable)
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To: Happy Rain

To correct your statement that the Kitty Hawk was diesel powered. It was powered by steam turbines, the steam produced by conventional oil fired boilers. It was the last conventional powered carrier and was permanently deployed to Japan for the reason you stated.
Please correct me if i’m wrong.


119 posted on 11/04/2012 12:24:32 PM PST by topsail
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