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USS Enterprise Retires - (The Aircraft Carrier)
« on: November 06, 2012, 04:35:46 AM »
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, 09:31:51 AM »
Wow!
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, 09:39:06 AM »
Quote from: Conrad on November 06, 2012, 09:31:51 AM
Wow!
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 10:24:55 AM »
I still have my Coral Sea hat... remember when they moth balled it... another sad day.
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2012, 11:20:35 AM »
Petition to name CVN 80 the Enterprise here:

http://ussenterp.epetitions.net/signatures.php?petition_id=1870
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2012, 01:03:06 PM »
 :thumbs:   Thanks, I just did!
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2012, 02:06:45 PM »
Would love to see them do to the "Big E" what they did with the "Mighty O". I had the privilege to dive on the Oriskany last summer and it was amazing.
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2012, 05:46:32 PM »
No disrespect intended at all for our military, but when I first saw the topic, I thought of this.

Star Trek III - Destruction of the USS Enterprise
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2012, 11:14:33 PM »
Beam me up Jimmy!!!!
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2012, 12:43:39 AM »
I just live a few miles from PSNS in Bremerton.  I guess I'll be able to watch them slowly peel her apart.  There are three other carriers there now.  The highway passes by just a couple hundred yards away, pretty imprassive looking up at them as you drive by.
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2012, 04:10:07 AM »
Big E in Mayport? Home port is Norfolk. My son knows just about every inch of that tub. He spent two years roaming it during its last major refit and then went on its first deployment afterwards. Said it still needed work.  It spent more time in drydock than planned because they found so much wrong with it. It needs to be retired. Its beyond worn out. Maybe once its scrapped my son can see it melted down. He now works in a steel mill that uses only scrap.
I wonder if I call the phone number on my keychain if I'll get the quarterdeck? :-)
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2012, 04:26:25 AM »
Quote from: OCK913 on November 06, 2012, 05:46:32 PM
No disrespect intended at all for our military, but when I first saw the topic, I thought of this.

Star Trek III - Destruction of the USS Enterprise

Don't feel bad...
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires - (The Aircraft Carrier)
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2012, 05:16:35 AM »
Hmm...the boat gets defueled in VA and the rods get moved by train to Idaho. Then the boat gets towed to Wash state?
Why not drive it to Bremerton and defuel it there? Idaho is much closer to WA than VA. Makes no sense.
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2012, 10:03:27 AM »
Quote from: Pokey on November 06, 2012, 11:14:33 PM
Beam me up Jimmy!!!!

Jim Beam...  :)
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires - (The Aircraft Carrier)
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2012, 10:49:52 AM »
Quote from: Cholla on November 07, 2012, 05:16:35 AM
Hmm...the boat gets defueled in VA and the rods get moved by train to Idaho. Then the boat gets towed to Wash state?
Why not drive it to Bremerton and defuel it there? Idaho is much closer to WA than VA. Makes no sense.

Uuhhhh....it's a GOVERNMENT project.  ::)
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires - (The Aircraft Carrier)
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2012, 10:55:25 AM »
Quote from: Cholla on November 07, 2012, 05:16:35 AM
Hmm...the boat gets defueled in VA and the rods get moved by train to Idaho. Then the boat gets towed to Wash state?
Why not drive it to Bremerton and defuel it there? Idaho is much closer to WA than VA. Makes no sense.

Just chalk this up to silliness in me. Perhaps someone did the math and the cost of sailing the ship on its own power to Washington plus the cost of creating a facility there to remove the fuel and reactors cost more then removing the fuel and reactors in VA then towing to Washington. naaaaa, would never happen.
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires - (The Aircraft Carrier)
« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2012, 12:26:19 PM »
(Removes CVN 65 cap...thok!)
Doh!
Military intelligence!
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires - (The Aircraft Carrier)
« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2012, 08:14:31 PM »
An impressive ship CVN-65. . .but she didn't bear the right name like her predecessor  USS Constellation (Connie) CV-64, the last of the diesels.  I served on the Connie, and now I own a Connie. . .wow (sipping my beer).  I'm getting dizzy (burping).  I'm o.k.
To all who served, by hat is off to you.
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires - (The Aircraft Carrier)
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2012, 04:59:40 AM »
The Connie wasn't the last built or retired. The last built was the Kennedy (CV67) and the last retired was the Kitty Hawk (CV63) in 2009.
Enteprise was aptly named as she was the first nukie carrier and the only ship in its class.
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Re: USS Enterprise Retires - (The Aircraft Carrier)
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2012, 09:30:15 PM »
You are correct Sir.  Meant to say one of the last diesels.

"The USS Constellation is America's ship"
Ronald Reagan
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