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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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To: Tatze

I'd guess the latter. My husband's former command, the USS Rickover (SSN 709), is being decommissioned this March after *thinks, does the math* 23 years. Hell look at the USS Kitty Hawk, commissioned in '61 and according to Wikipedia not due to decom till 2009? Wow.


38 posted on 01/16/2007 12:27:28 PM PST by Severa (I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
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