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  • Legendary aircraft carrier USS Saratoga to sail off to scrapyard in 1-cent deal

    05/09/2014 9:57:38 AM PDT · by US Navy Vet · 54 replies
    Fox News.com ^ | May 09, 2014 | By Joshua Rhett Miller
    The USS Saratoga — the legendary aircraft carrier that played a key role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam and Gulf wars and made Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi back down — is destined for dismantling after the Navy paid one penny to a Texas firm to recycle the 81,101-ton behemoth. The once-mighty vessel is the second of three conventionally-powered carriers to set to sail to the scrapyard, following another one-cent deal involving the USS Forrestal in October. ESCO Marine, of Brownsville, will pay to tow, dismantle and recycle the ship, which was decommissioned in 1994 after more than 38 years...