The BIG "E" Now retired. Greatest ship I ever saw, or served on.

[aboutime]

[Gunny]

They retired the Enterprise? Wow. I didn't see that one coming.

[Elessar]

They retired the Enterprise? Wow. I didn't see that one coming.

Yeah...it was coming.

Majestic ship she was.

[aboutime]

I remember the first time I saw the BIG E in Norfolk, at Pier 12. I was straight out of boot camp. It was August of 1964, and hot, really really hot in my Dress Blue, wool uniform. That was the proper uniform we were instructed to wear when we left boot camp.
Anyhow...I remember getting out of the taxi at the foot of the pier, and looking up at the biggest thing I had ever seen as a 17 year old.
It looked like the flight deck was taller than our biggest bank building, back at home in Pennsylvania, and..IT WAS!
I will never, ever forget that feeling when I realized...JUST HOW SMALL I was, and insignificant to the new world before me on that day.

To all who have served on ANY NAVY SHIP, at ANY TIME. You know how sad it is to learn...your home is going to become RAZOR BLADES, or be SUNK.

[Gunny]

I remember the first time I saw the BIG E in Norfolk, at Pier 12. I was straight out of boot camp. It was August of 1964, and hot, really really hot in my Dress Blue, wool uniform. That was the proper uniform we were instructed to wear when we left boot camp.
Anyhow...I remember getting out of the taxi at the foot of the pier, and looking up at the biggest thing I had ever seen as a 17 year old.
It looked like the flight deck was taller than our biggest bank building, back at home in Pennsylvania, and..IT WAS!
I will never, ever forget that feeling when I realized...JUST HOW SMALL I was, and insignificant to the new world before me on that day.

To all who have served on ANY NAVY SHIP, at ANY TIME. You know how sad it is to learn...your home is going to become RAZOR BLADES, or be SUNK.

Don;t know about you, but that;s losing a friend to me. Please tell me O-Asswipe wasn't behind this .....

[Russ]

Why would they retire this ship? I smell an Obama-scented rat here. Is that idiot just looking for other ways to muck things up for Trump?

[aboutime]

Though I'd like to blame Obama for this. That wouldn't be true. The ENTERPRISE had reached it's designed usability. It was built in the 60's, and whether you know it or not, unless you are a sailor in the navy. Ships grow old, tired, and modernization replaces what was designed in the 60's. It was getting too expensive, like other ships, to maintain, rework, and then send into Harms Way.
So. NOBAMA had nothing to do with it.
All of the ships, except one I served on, have now been decommissioned, stripped, then either sold for scrap, parked in bone yards, sunk, or have been sold to other navies.

Don't know whether anybody can tell from my words here, but Watching, or Learning that a ship I once called my home...at sea for several years; actually become part of our lives. We respect them. Honor them. Cherish them, and have fond memories that took us around the world...on the sea's. Like part of our family. Sailors always love going to sea. That's what we were trained to do.

[Elessar]

Heh!

Grand old lady.

Coasties are budget constrained to keep ours going for 30 years past their 'zero' time. Navy is lucky!

[Elessar]

We were once moored at Long Beach CA Naval Station for a 'Fleet Week' on our 210 fott cutter.

The USS Missouri (Big!) was anchored off the pier, then the USS Carl Vinson came chugging by.
Freaking thing is huge!

[aboutime]

Heh!

Grand old lady.

Coasties are budget constrained to keep ours going for 30 years past their 'zero' time. Navy is lucky!

Just pullin' your leg here Elessar, but...HOW MANY COASTIE ships are NUKES?

Fifty years for a ship like the Enterprise is a work of art, and savings.

As for the Carl Vinson. I was in the Med when that ship came to relieve the now, decommissioned Coral Sea CVA-43. The Vinson had to steam around Africa at the time, because they didn't want a Nuke to get trapped in the Suez Canal. That was in the 80's, when Reagan ordered our planes to BOMB Kadafi in Libya.

[Elessar]

Just pullin' your leg here Elessar, but...HOW MANY COASTIE ships are NUKES?

Fifty years for a ship like the Enterprise is a work of art, and savings.

As for the Carl Vinson. I was in the Med when that ship came to relieve the now, decommissioned Coral Sea CVA-43. The Vinson had to steam around Africa at the time, because they didn't want a Nuke to get trapped in the Suez Canal. That was in the 80's, when Reagan ordered our planes to BOMB Kadafi in Libya.

Actually, the polar icebreakers Polar Star and Polar Sea were originally designed to be nukes
in the 60's.

Then someone in their brilliance changed that around and shot the cost another 50% to reconfigure
them to diesel-electric drives.

[Gunny]

Though I'd like to blame Obama for this. That wouldn't be true. The ENTERPRISE had reached it's designed usability. It was built in the 60's, and whether you know it or not, unless you are a sailor in the navy. Ships grow old, tired, and modernization replaces what was designed in the 60's. It was getting too expensive, like other ships, to maintain, rework, and then send into Harms Way.
So. NOBAMA had nothing to do with it.
All of the ships, except one I served on, have now been decommissioned, stripped, then either sold for scrap, parked in bone yards, sunk, or have been sold to other navies.

Don't know whether anybody can tell from my words here, but Watching, or Learning that a ship I once called my home...at sea for several years; actually become part of our lives. We respect them. Honor them. Cherish them, and have fond memories that took us around the world...on the sea's. Like part of our family. Sailors always love going to sea. That's what we were trained to do.

A-men, bro. Some people don't know what home means,

[Abbey Marie]

Though I'd like to blame Obama for this. That wouldn't be true. The ENTERPRISE had reached it's designed usability. It was built in the 60's, and whether you know it or not, unless you are a sailor in the navy. Ships grow old, tired, and modernization replaces what was designed in the 60's. It was getting too expensive, like other ships, to maintain, rework, and then send into Harms Way.
So. NOBAMA had nothing to do with it.
All of the ships, except one I served on, have now been decommissioned, stripped, then either sold for scrap, parked in bone yards, sunk, or have been sold to other navies.

Don't know whether anybody can tell from my words here, but Watching, or Learning that a ship I once called my home...at sea for several years; actually become part of our lives. We respect them. Honor them. Cherish them, and have fond memories that took us around the world...on the sea's. Like part of our family. Sailors always love going to sea. That's what we were trained to do.

AT, if you don't blame Obama, it must be true!

[Balu]

Russian destroyer on duty.

[Balu]

The ship USSR - US destroyer rammed Battle !!!
Literally - Piss off, and change your pampers, 'uniques'!!! ( A fresh example. You remember your escaping in panic 'Donald Cook' crew with as brave as you are, 'Funny Girlie Gunny') Russians ARE NOT Papua you used to fight agsinst. But, frankly speaking, with no result.