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To: Tatze
Well we're not too far from that.

We have a USS Wasp:

USS Wasp (LHD-1)

The last USS Hornet, CV-12, is a museum:

USS Hornet (CV-12)

The last Yorktown, CG-48, was decommissioned in 2004.

USS Yorktown (CG-48)

34 posted on 01/16/2007 12:14:03 PM PST by Severa (I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
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To: Severa

USS Ford F-150,000 ???


35 posted on 01/16/2007 12:21:27 PM PST by Chief_Joe (From where the sun now sits, I will fight on -FOREVER!!!)
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To: Severa

I forgot about the Wasp (LHD-1). And Yorktown needs to be a carrier! But is 20 years service normal for a Destroyer? Or was it just one of the casualties of a smaller Navy?


36 posted on 01/16/2007 12:22:52 PM PST by Tatze (I'm in a state of taglinelessness!)
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