There's a New Sheriff in Town

Oakman

CVN 77 The George H W Bush[^] The last of the Nimitz super carriers. * Top speed exceeds 30 knots * Powered by two nuclear reactors that can operate for more than 20 years without refueling * Carries 80-plus combat aircraft * Towers 20 stories above the waterline with a 4.5-acre flight deck * 1,092 feet long: nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall * Ship's Complement: more than 6,000 sailors * 47,000 tons of structural steel and about a million pounds of aluminum * Motto: "Freedom at Work" * Commissioned: 01/10/2009 Ready to kick ass and lick lollipops - and it's fresh out of lollipops.

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Stan Shannon

Now that's a 'mission accomplished' banner waiting to happen.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Oakman

Stan Shannon wrote:

Now that's a 'mission accomplished' banner waiting to happen.

Bite your tongue

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Lost User

As long as they get the maintenance budget for the aircraft so they don't have to move parts around to keep them signed off. BTW - steel in tons but aluminium in pounds?

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Gary Kirkham

I have a cousin who works at the shipyard where that was built. I was at LaRC on training in 2001 and arranged to have dinner with him. After dinner, we went by the shipyard and saw the Ronald Reagan in drydock about 4 days before it launched. I figured it would be ready for service at that point, but he told me that once it launched it was towed across the way for outfitting, which took, IIRC, a couple of more years. It was pretty cool to see a ship that large up out of the water. I wish I could have been there for the launch.

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Oakman

Trollslayer wrote:

BTW - steel in tons but aluminium in pounds?

It coulda been worse - I might have given one in tons and one in tonnes ;)

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Sahir Shah

$6.2 billion ? Should you guys be playing the big spender at a time like this ?

Oakman

Bought and paid for. Ongoing costs already budgeted and I suspect that the CVN 77 will allow the Navy to mothball or remove altogether a couple of older ships. For instance the Navy Carrier USS Oriskany that saw service in Vietnam was sunk of the coast of Pennsacola, Florida a couple of years ago to provide the world's largest man-made reef. Besides, think of all the jobs the ship created in the shipyards - and now in the Navy. I've wondered if we might not consider spending a lot of our economic recovery packages on the armed services. Bring them back up to say, 2/3rds of where they stood in 1965. Should stimulate the economy just fine.

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Oakman

Back when I was designing games, there was a convention in San Diego. One of the Petty Officers on board the Enterprise really liked my game so he invited me and the rest of my staff to have a tour with him - we went lots of places the public never gets to see and I actually got to sit for in the command chair for about two seconds.

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Ilion

Except that GHW Bush doesn't appear to be dead yet. And, even after he is honestly dead, do we *really* want to name a warship after "Read My Lips" Bush?

Mike Gaskey

Ilíon wrote:

after he is honestly dead, do we *really* want to name a warship after "Read My Lips" Bush?

yes, he's an honourable man that served his nation well.

Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

Oakman

Ilíon wrote:

Except that GHW Bush doesn't appear to be dead yet.

True, but he almost died when he was in uniform. Serving his country. Putting his life on the line to protect the USA. Even ended up with the distinguised flying cross. While you, on the other hand, are a yellow-bellied whiner-boy who wants everyone else to do your fighting for you.

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Ilion

Mike Gaskey wrote:

yes, he's an honourable man that served his nation well.

In one time and place ... but did not in another.

Ilion

Oakman wrote:

While you, on the other hand, are a yellow-bellied whiner-boy who wants everyone else to do your fighting for you.

And you are in inveterate liar.

Lost User

It would have made the US half civilised ;P

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Oakman

Trollslayer wrote:

It would have made the US half civilised

Absolutely. Luckily, I ignored the metric system. ;P

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MrPlankton

...and with all that, I pray God is with us...

MrPlankton

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Oakman

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!

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MrPlankton

Can't argue with that, a 5 for you sir.

MrPlankton

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Single Step Debugger

I drove two hours just to visit US “New Jersey” battleship couple of months ago. I also had the pleasure to set in the captain chair for a while. They don’t give you to fire from the main caliber though. :sigh:

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