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Posted on 04/28/2003 4:00:35 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it
Good Night.
You're welcome Snippy. You did a good job.
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posted on
04/28/2003 8:45:09 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
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To: snippy_about_it; Samwise
Late? I'm still on lunch time here.
I did one of the first overseas hull swaps, which is the same concept except 2 crews are swapping 2 ships in homeport, not in the middle of a deployment. Our biggest problem was that the ships were 30 year old LPDs, big and with many chances for the kinds of modifications which made even ships of the same class very different.
I think these newer and smaller DDGs might have an easier time of of it as the ships are more likely to be exactly the same. And the Navy has been doing this kind of sea swap with mine countermeasure ships in the Gulf for quite a while, although those ships have very small crews (about 100 if I remember) and they are sort of in their homeport.
I surely see the time on station advantage. Almost 2 months of a six month deployment from the West Coast to the Gulf is wasted in transit.
To: SAMWolf
Sorry, I must of had hobbits on my mind in my last post.
To: GATOR NAVY
LOL! No problem. Thanks for the explanation.
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posted on
04/28/2003 9:01:06 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
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To: Valin
Will you give your hubby a hug and thanks from Samwise? I'm an old Hobbit and nowhere near as good looking as Ann Margaret, but I'm grateful too.
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posted on
04/28/2003 9:54:52 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.)
To: GATOR NAVY
Once you meet us, we are hard to forget. :^)
P.S. I'm enjoying the thread.
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posted on
04/28/2003 10:21:36 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.)
To: Samwise
Glad some good came out of my error...
To: PhilDragoo
BTTT!!!!!!
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posted on
04/29/2003 3:05:49 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: GATOR NAVY
Late? lol. I'll keep this handy, it may not be exact but closer than my clock.
Thank you for your input. I hadn't thought about the transit time vs the time to get to know the new (though like you said probably very similar) make up of the ship.
I also enjoyed the hobbit exchange. Thanks for my morning laugh.
To: snippy_about_it
That's a nice little graphic. The clock is right and so is the weather. It was windier earlier today, closer to 25 mph.
To: larryjohnson
Remember the Laugh In person who fell over on his tricycle?.Yes, I do. What a funny image of you on your bike. Sorry for laughing, but that just cracks me up. Hope your owies are better today.
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04/29/2003 10:51:06 AM PDT
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Jen
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