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USS Kitty Hawk headed for the scrapyard
Navy Times
| Jan 18, 2022
| Geoff Ziezulewicz
Posted on 01/21/2022 1:01:22 AM PST by 11th_VA
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Made a couple West-Pacs escorting her.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:01:22 AM PST
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11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:10:05 AM PST
by
11th_VA
(I can still remember an America where dissent was the highest form of patriotism.)
To: 11th_VA
Thank you for your service. Job well done, she is still afloat. Even if not for long.
There is something a little sad when the navy sends a ship with damn near a half a century service to the breakers.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:11:48 AM PST
by
Tupelo
To: 11th_VA
Bladesmiths...
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:13:06 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:17:11 AM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: 11th_VA
A fine ship. They used to let our 180’ Coastie boat park right next to her when we went to Yokosuka for yearly training.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:43:29 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
To: Tupelo
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01/21/2022 2:10:41 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: 11th_VA
I got to go onboard both the kitty and midway while I was in the navy in the early 90’s. Was serving onboard my home USS Comstock but got to go onboard those historic vessels for parts. I love the history of these 2 vessels. It’s a shame they didn’t find a home for the kitty hawk like they did for the midway.
To: 11th_VA
Served in her Task Force wake onboard the USS Robert E. Peary FF-1073 back in the days of the Iran hostage crisis…
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01/21/2022 2:29:17 AM PST
by
missnry
(The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Ah yes, I did a lot of work on the Kitty Hawk, including installing the ADNS network, CIC upgrades and the redesign of SUPPLOT and TFCC spaces. She was affectionatly known as the Shitty Kitty, but she always seemed to have the best crew with with. To bad she’s gone, she would have made a great museum.
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01/21/2022 2:34:59 AM PST
by
fatman6502002
((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
To: 11th_VA
We were deployed in her Battle Group and overseas when the Iranians took the US Embassy at the end of Jimmy Carter’s term
The Shitty Kitty
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01/21/2022 2:58:52 AM PST
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atc23
(The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
To: 11th_VA
the fate of most ships, the bottom or the breakers.
To: 11th_VA
Why don’t they give it to the Afganis?
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posted on
01/21/2022 3:43:34 AM PST
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fruser1
To: fruser1
Why don’t they give it to the Afganis? Fitzcarraldo-style, hauling her over the Khyber Pass...
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posted on
01/21/2022 3:53:12 AM PST
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: 11th_VA
Son lives just above the navy base. A whole line of old carriers and other vessels at dock waiting for the scrapyard…and a whole history of the last 50 years of the Navy. All served us well.
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01/21/2022 4:05:16 AM PST
by
rstrahan
To: atc23
back in the days of the Iran hostage crisis… I hear that. They had sailors from various ships in PI provision her for ‘Gonzo Station’. She was at the end of her 6 month West PAC - heading back to the states. I was one of the ‘lucky ones’ that spend all night loading her up.
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posted on
01/21/2022 4:08:04 AM PST
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11th_VA
(I can still remember an America where dissent was the highest form of patriotism.)
To: 11th_VA
Or maybe that was the Constellation…
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posted on
01/21/2022 4:12:17 AM PST
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11th_VA
(I can still remember an America where dissent was the highest form of patriotism.)
To: 11th_VA
We were on Liberty call in Cebu. I was out in the jungle in a hammock with a girl for 2 days drinking San Magoo. They sent Shore Patrol out to round us all up for emergency recall. Such good times. We didn’t get back to Subic for a month.
Haze gray and underway
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01/21/2022 5:13:32 AM PST
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atc23
(The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
To: Tupelo; Chode
I feel much the same way. I know it sounds odd, but I was glad the America was used as a test target.
In my mind’s eye, the vision of her sitting at the bottom of the ocean, always deployed, submerged in her element, rather than being cut up, is a comforting thing to me.
What is it about a ship? Some people would say it is only a big hunk of metal. But in my mind, the one I spent the most time on is more than that. I used to read about ships having a personality and men would cry when they were sunk in battle and they watched them go down.
I didn’t fully understand it. But after being on one, there is something else.
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posted on
01/21/2022 5:32:34 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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