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USN Aircraft carrier to be scrapped
Brownsville Herald ^
| 6-16-14
| Steve Clark
Posted on 06/17/2014 9:44:15 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
With all that steel we should be able to make a whole lot of plowshares to send over to Iraq.
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posted on
06/17/2014 9:46:10 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: smokingfrog; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
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posted on
06/17/2014 9:47:18 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: smokingfrog
I did some work at the shipyard several years ago. Was in the drydock working under the Constellation. Really weird to be walking under this huge ship sitting on thousands of wooden beams. (”Wood beams!!?? That’s it? Twenty-first century with the most technologically advanced military? And I have to work under it supported by wood beams!!??”)
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posted on
06/17/2014 9:48:47 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: 21twelve
And I have to work under it supported by wood beams!!?? That's bio-supports, if you please.
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posted on
06/17/2014 9:54:05 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: 21twelve
It didn’t colapse and crush you so shut up!
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posted on
06/17/2014 9:59:10 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
06/17/2014 9:59:11 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: 21twelve
“And I have to work under it supported by wood beams!!??”
You might be surprised to hear that when these things are on active duty, they use WATER to support them! Seems impossible.
To: smokingfrog
I had no idea Brownsville, Texas had a port that big.
To: Born to Conserve
LOL. It was sad working there and knowing that it was heading for the scrap yard. I mentioned the work to a neighbor. Turns out he had served on the Constellation during Vietnam. On one of his weekend motorcycle rides he went over to the shipyard to say goodbye.
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posted on
06/17/2014 10:10:38 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: 21twelve
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posted on
06/17/2014 10:16:44 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: VerySadAmerican
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posted on
06/17/2014 10:23:00 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Everything in life is temporary. This mighty ship will be just steel once again, just as we will return to dust. That’s the cycle of life, and that’s ok.
To: ElkGroveDan
Dan, my son goes to Sac State.
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posted on
06/18/2014 2:50:51 AM PDT
by
Mark17
( Rudyard Kipling: it is unhealthy, for scum bags to awaken the sleeping Saxon, and torque his jaws)
To: smokingfrog
Interesting article. Of the last four conventional carriers Kitty Hawk, Connie, America, and JFK the Kitty Hawk the oldest of the four seemed to have survived the wear and tear the best since it is the reserve carrier. I'm surprised the northeast DEMs haven't demanded the Navy make JFK a museum from it's operations budget. JFK from accounts I've read was in pretty rough shape and it was the newest.
The feel and sound of being on the second deck of a KH class carrier running all eight boilers and all four screws turning at flank was awesome. The ship had a totally different feel to it at flank. You'd feel the internal vibration and the deck rising and falling. The turbines would be screaming. You just knew she was going all out.
The fact that none of them suffered a real full blown catastrophic boiler room disaster that could have blown the ship in half is a testimony to the quality standards they were build under. They had some incidents like America upon return from the MED in 1994 when at NOB but nothing close like what was possible to happen under a worse case scenario. Those were 8 boiler 1200 PSI superheated steam propulsion plants. Very deadly with even a pin hole leak. A silent unseen killer.
Both times I went to the Med we came back running Flank speed most of the way.
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posted on
06/18/2014 3:09:04 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: smokingfrog
She and her class sister will suffer the fate of most ships. The bottom or the breakers.
To: cva66snipe
I'm surprised the northeast DEMs haven't demanded the Navy make JFK a museum from it's operations budget. JFK from accounts I've read was in pretty rough shape and it was the newest. They're way ahead of you: Link
If Ted Kennedy was still alive I guarantee the museum would have been federally funded.
To: DoodleDawg
It looks like outside agencies and not the former crew-members in that group. Most carrier vet orgs did try to get their ship as a museum. None of the super carriers {Forestall-present} were made museums as far as I know.
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posted on
06/18/2014 4:14:42 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: smokingfrog
Looks like Texas will have an abundance of material for steel targets soon.
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posted on
06/18/2014 4:24:57 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
To: smokingfrog
Everything in life is temporary. This mighty ship will be just steel once again, just as we will return to dust. That’s the cycle of life, and that’s ok.
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