The World's Largest Naval Station Is Packed Tight For Christmas (9 Flattops All In A Row)

TBI ^ | 12-24-2012 | Robert Johnson

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The World's Largest Naval Station Is Packed Tight For Christmas

Robert Johnson
December 24,2012

The Navy does its best to get troops home for the holidays when it can, but this display at Norfolk Naval base is still more the exception than the rule.

Nine "Flattops," five aircraft carriers, and four amphibious assault ships, are crammed together here at Norfolk among smaller ships and nuclear submarines from December 20, Navy photos. The nine flattops alone, number more than all eight battleships at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., the world’s largest naval station.

The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

[Paladin2]

What are those temporary structures on the flight decks?

[Paladin2]

What are those temporary structures on the flight decks?

[Paladin2]

What are those temporary structures on the flight decks?

[Paladin2]

What are those temporary structures on the flight decks?

[King Moonracer]

Please tell me this was not an executive order from our POS POTUS?

[patriotUSA]

[rlmorel]

I was in VA-46, same time frame...:)

[BenLurkin]

The equivalent of a single W-80 warhead would be all the bad guys wouild need,

[Kartographer]

[DNME]

Still, you have to admit that is one hellacious display of (potential) firepower!

When you think that even one flattop today could deliver more destructive power than the entire U.S. fleet in World War II, these pictures are impressive.

It’s enough to make any tinpot dictator pause and say, “Yiiiikes ...”

[hal ogen]

After Pearl Harbor didn’t many of the top brass get retired because they positioned all the ships together? My...how times have changed.

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

First thought that came to mind: I thought Adm. Kimmel was dead. Apparently not.

5.56mm

[crosshairs]

Bunched up close together? Why am I thinking if Pearl Harbor.

And Obama arrainging it with his Muslim Brotherhood cronies. Offshore missiles.

[capt. norm]

I used to get detracted driving across the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel by an occasional carrier or nuke sub passing under the bridge portion.

[A.A. Cunningham]

121220-N-ZN152-178 NORFOLK (Dec. 20, 2012) The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., the world's largest naval station. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ernest R. Scott/Released)

[skinkinthegrass]

Bunched up close together? Why am I thinking if Pearl Harbor.
And Obama arrainging it with his Muslim Brotherhood cronies. Offshore missiles.precisely..."a day that will go down in infamy"...again...
as 0'Buttcrack screams: "Allah Ackbar!"

[A.A. Cunningham]

121220-N-ZN152-189 NORFOLK (Dec. 20, 2012) The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., the world's largest naval station. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ernest R. Scott/Released)

[PAR35]

Stupidity in the high command.

[Psalm 73]

The amphibious assault ships/helicopter carriers are what the rest of the world’s navies call their “Aircraft Carriers” - none have REAL carriers (like ours).

[stars & stripes forever]

What is the little object sticking up in the bottom left side of the picture?