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[afraidfortherepublic]

I thought those were named after volcanoes.

Mt. Ranier IS a volcano, albeit an extinct one.

[NorCoGOP]

Adams class tin can?

If so, which one?

DDG-7 decomm plankowner PING...

[M Kehoe]

Grunt bump.

5.56mm

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"If so, which one?"

I was a Gunners Mate on the 3rd USS CORRY DD-817

DD-817, The 3rd, USS Corry DD-817 was launched 7-28-1945, stricken from the US Navy List on 2/27/1981

DD-463, The 2nd USS Corry DD-463 was launched 7-28-1941,
Early on D-Day, 6/4/1944, the Corry was just 2,000 yards from the American landing zone called Utah Beach.
At 0633 she hit a mine, which exploded below her engineering spaces, & all power was lost.
Of her crew, 6 were dead, 16 missing, & 33 injured.

DD-334, The 1st USS Corry was launched 3-28-1921, stricken from the US Navy List on 4/24/1930

[Nitro]

3 inch, Fifty!!

[Nitro]

I admire your balls and your willingness to close range and gun it out, but...

Jimmy Doolittle proved that big guns are never enough alone, it was around 1923 or so if I remember my movies right!!

And of course what we now call mines, which is what was meant when Farragut exclaimed "Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead," at the time a torpedo was a float containing an explosive charge usually on a fuse, so as we have seen in some "Sub" movies 'charging a torp' is sometimes a good idea, they both got to and past the "torp" before the fuse could do it's deadly work... in both times they are considered 'area denial' munitions

as long as all safeties and presets are active...

I could be wrong, I was a surface guy and anything I did know I mostly forgot or can't or won't actually say!!

To add, didn't the HMS Shefield eat an Exocet and sink, and didn't the Brits sink the "General Belgrano" , I am not exactly sure that was missiles but you get my point!!

Anyway, as ex-Navy I must say any C/country that tries to "run and gun" will be bringing out rowboats after the first few days!!

[jjm2111]

That was halfway a joke. I think for amphib operations support and attacking coastal targets, big guns are both better and cheaper. Of course a future "battleship" of such would need strong AA defenses and prolly would be escorted.

Yes, the "General Belgrano" was torpedoed, and the "Sheffield" was hit by an exoxcet.

[Nitro]

I thought you meant ship-to-ship engagements, but you are exactly correct when you say a Marine Amphib Force needs a little love in the shape of NGFS!!

That and close-air-support, but that will come from VMF's flying off Navy decks!!

[Nitro]

You know Nitro can give you a pretty big blast too!!

Actually that was our motto...

"We do it with a BANG!!"

[Nitro]

We always had the Beans, Bombs and Bullets...

we also had two kinds of gas, the DFM and the Beans!!

Lord love a Sailor, cause no one else will!!

[Nitro]

I get it now... 5.56...

reach out and touch someone!!

BZ!!

[Nitro]

I was on the Finest Fast Attack AE in the Fleet...

The USS Nitro AE-23!!

WE DO IT WITH A BANG!!

[Poohbah]

I thought those were named after volcanoes.

Yup. So named because they'd do a credible impression of one if they were ever hit :o)

[battlegearboat]

This freshly minted seaman arrived in the Rung Sat and was given command of the "Battlegearboat", a LCM6. It had twin Detroit deisels, and a useless wheel (steered it with the throttles using forward, reverse and neutral). I met my crew: two Vietnamese who scared the sheet outa me, but we became good friends.
I had never been trained for job (I was fresh out of Yeoman "A" School, 32nd Street, San Diego with stops at Coronado AMPHIB Base, Camp Pendleton and Warner Springs). It was strictly OJT.
I was low man on the totem pole and it was the sheetiest job, so I got it. I waited four months until a new unsuspecting seaman arrived to take my place.
Tooling around the Long Tau River and Vung Tau Bay, during the dulldrums, always trying to escape that deisel exhaust.
Today, one tiny whiff of deisel smoke sends me back to the Battlegearboat.
The times that the smoke didn't bother me were the times I was fighting like hell to stay afloat (and aboard) during a Monsoon!
I was with MSTSOV (Military Sea Transportation Service Office Vietnam - Vung Tau) and to this day I've yet to run into anyone who has ever heard of us.
Oh, and I don't want to hear about how sweet the duty was at Vung Tau. Vung Tau, the resort, was about ten miles down the road. (We officed on the LST beach next to the DeLong Pier.)
I was there a year (May 20, 1969 - May 20, 1970).
I love my country, I love the United States Navy and I'm very proud to have served both in Vietnam. We were winning when I left!

[Nitro]

I thought those were named after volcanoes.

Yup. So named because they'd do a credible impression of one if they were ever hit :o)

You are both right...

I was in USS Nitro and we said...

that if you could hover a half-mile above the ship and she went up in the middle of the ocean...

she would make a hole so deep, you would see the ocean floor and it would take two days to fill in the hole!!

[Nitro]

God Bless...

The United States Navy...

and all who serve in her!!