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The World's Largest Naval Station Is Packed Tight For Christmas (9 Flattops All In A Row)
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| 12-24-2012
| Robert Johnson
Posted on 12/24/2012 6:16:46 AM PST by blam
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.
![](http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/50d857c5eab8eaa164000017-975-786/1-1464.jpg)
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 worlds largest naval station.
![](http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/50d8591069bedd6443000014-975-596/4-289.jpg)
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)
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christmas; eggsinonebasket; flattops; navalbasenorfolk; navy; norfolk; shipmovement; usnavy
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To: blam
What are those temporary structures on the flight decks?
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:40:01 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: blam
What are those temporary structures on the flight decks?
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:40:01 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: blam
What are those temporary structures on the flight decks?
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:40:39 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: blam
What are those temporary structures on the flight decks?
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:40:39 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: blam
Please tell me this was not an executive order from our POS POTUS?
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:40:55 AM PST
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: blam
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:43:20 AM PST
by
patriotUSA
(Thank you Jesus.)
To: brivette
I was in VA-46, same time frame...:)
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:43:23 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
To: txnativegop
The equivalent of a single W-80 warhead would be all the bad guys wouild need,
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:44:42 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: blam
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:46:20 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: blam
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 ...”
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:51:47 AM PST
by
DNME
(Without the Constitution, there is no legitimate U.S. government. No exceptions.)
To: Kartographer
After Pearl Harbor didn’t many of the top brass get retired because they positioned all the ships together? My...how times have changed.
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:54:21 AM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: blam
Good morning.
First thought that came to mind: I thought Adm. Kimmel was dead. Apparently not.
5.56mm
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posted on
12/24/2012 7:00:45 AM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: muir_redwoods
Bunched up close together? Why am I thinking if Pearl Harbor.
And Obama arrainging it with his Muslim Brotherhood cronies. Offshore missiles.
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12/24/2012 7:03:25 AM PST
by
crosshairs
(It's all about good vs evil. In the end, evil is destroyed.)
To: blam
I used to get detracted driving across the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel by an occasional carrier or nuke sub passing under the bridge portion.
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posted on
12/24/2012 7:04:25 AM PST
by
capt. norm
(Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)
To: blam
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)
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12/24/2012 7:11:59 AM PST
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
To: crosshairs
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...![](http://th280.photobucket.com/albums/kk197/RetiredApachePilot/Smiley%20Faces/th_type.gif)
as 0'Buttcrack screams: "Allah Ackbar!"
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posted on
12/24/2012 7:13:38 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0Bama man can :-)
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)
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posted on
12/24/2012 7:14:49 AM PST
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
To: blam
Stupidity in the high command.
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posted on
12/24/2012 7:15:01 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: blam
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).
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posted on
12/24/2012 7:16:58 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: A.A. Cunningham
What is the little object sticking up in the bottom left side of the picture?
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