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

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)


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christmas; eggsinonebasket; flattops; navalbasenorfolk; navy; norfolk; shipmovement; usnavy
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1 posted on 12/24/2012 6:16:51 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

Can you take the tarp with the red X’s off them so we could have a peek?


2 posted on 12/24/2012 6:18:31 AM PST by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: blam

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


3 posted on 12/24/2012 6:18:46 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: blam

wow, wish the pictures had come through.


4 posted on 12/24/2012 6:20:16 AM PST by brivette
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To: blam

LOL at the comment at source:

“Don’t show this picture to the Japanese.”


5 posted on 12/24/2012 6:20:26 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: blam

Loose Lips sink Ships!


6 posted on 12/24/2012 6:22:09 AM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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To: blam

I use to guard a slot on pier 22. It was not a target pier.


7 posted on 12/24/2012 6:23:15 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Don’t show this picture to Iran, the rest of the terrorists, and maybe a few others in the US, as well.


8 posted on 12/24/2012 6:24:15 AM PST by Truth29
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To: muir_redwoods

Pearl Harbor came to mind here, too


9 posted on 12/24/2012 6:24:17 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: blam

A cluster of exocets would have a no-miss target.

Pics at the link at top of page.


10 posted on 12/24/2012 6:25:13 AM PST by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: blam

I certainly hope that seven of those are just huge rubber decoys


11 posted on 12/24/2012 6:25:13 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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12 posted on 12/24/2012 6:26:35 AM PST by WVKayaker ("the sacrifice of One birthed opportunity for new life and real HOPE for all"-Sarah Palin 12/17/12)
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To: Truth29

Maybe Prof. Ayers and Prof. Dorne of Northwestern University will be tempted to relive their past.


13 posted on 12/24/2012 6:26:35 AM PST by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: blam

What are these white tent things on CVN-77


14 posted on 12/24/2012 6:27:33 AM PST by omega4179 (Obama retro ad Kenia)
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To: brivette

Pictures come through at the link.

For anybody ever stationed at NOB, it’s an amazing group of photos.

Long time ago, used to walk from D & S piers,out the gate to fleet landing, back in the gate, to go to the EM club.

Things have changed a bit.


15 posted on 12/24/2012 6:31:07 AM PST by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: blam
The World's Largest Naval Station Is Packed Tight For Christmas

12 Drummers Drumming
11 Pipers Piping
10 Lords-a-Leaping
9 Flattops packing

16 posted on 12/24/2012 6:32:47 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month)
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To: maine yankee

I was stationed their during the seventies, on board the Kennedy.


17 posted on 12/24/2012 6:35:24 AM PST by brivette
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To: blam

If they are here, who is protecting the USA?


18 posted on 12/24/2012 6:35:41 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: muir_redwoods

Because it’s eerily similar to the Pearl Harbor arrangement of ships?


19 posted on 12/24/2012 6:36:31 AM PST by izzatzo
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To: omega4179
"What are these white tent things on CVN-77"

I don't know...I'm an old diesel submarine guy.

20 posted on 12/24/2012 6:37:16 AM PST by blam
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