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GOTTA SEE THIS: KITTY HAWK, F/A18-E, E2-C ACTIVITY RATCHETS UP IN JAPAN AGAINST N.KOREA (Video Clip)
FNN NEWS TV (Japanese) Short 300k Video Clip ^ | 18 October 2006 | FNN News TV (Japanese) Short Clip

Posted on 10/18/2006 7:20:09 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

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To: AmericanInTokyo
When my brother (God rest his soul) took me one time to a Naval Shipyard, and brought me up to the nose of USS Kitty Hawk in drydock.

It was (and still is) the biggest thing I ever saw in my life! I was standing there awestruck!

21 posted on 10/18/2006 9:33:50 AM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I was with the Air Group (CAG-11 ....VA115..) on the Kitty Hawk in 1961. ( Golden Shellback ) She is still BIG!!!


22 posted on 10/18/2006 9:52:27 AM PDT by GitmoSailor
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To: TigerLikesRooster
According the screenshot in the article, it seems to show the Kitty Hawk and Japanese Navy operating in the East Sea as part of ANNUALEX 2006, and two more carriers shown in the Yellow Sea?

The Nimitz, John C. Stennis and Ronald Reagan are all in the pacific at the moment, so I'd assume if anything is going to be sailing to the Yellow Sea it will be those groups.

[All open source]

23 posted on 10/18/2006 9:59:39 AM PDT by maquiladora
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To: JOHN ADAMS

Yeah, somebody had that point before, too! :-)


24 posted on 10/18/2006 11:21:41 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Afternoon EST/morning PST type BUMP! BTTT!


25 posted on 10/18/2006 11:24:29 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: maquiladora

The Reagan & Nimitz are based here in San Diego


26 posted on 10/18/2006 2:38:59 PM PDT by SoCalPol (We Need A Border Fence Now)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
No kidding. When I was in the Navy my submarine was pulled up on the opposite side of the pier of the USS Carl Vinson. It made my ship look so small! We had a tiny area on one side of the pier and the entire other side was the CVN. There was a constant throng of sailors going to the ship at all times--like a city.

We submariners were sort of annoyed by the extra security checks, it was almost as if we were going to an airport ;)
27 posted on 10/18/2006 2:45:04 PM PDT by burzum (Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I always have to smile when I see that ship.

I got to tour the Kitty Hawk in San Diego way back when I was a cub scout. I remember how awestruck that ship made me, and how impress the sailors on board were at the number of peices of pumkin pie I ate in the mess hall.

Good memory.


28 posted on 10/18/2006 2:52:36 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (This tag line will be commercial free for the remainder of this thread.)
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To: CougarGA7

I can appreciate that!


29 posted on 10/18/2006 2:54:28 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

That reporter is hot.


30 posted on 10/18/2006 2:58:06 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (We gotta watch out for the Hellbazoo and the Hamas...)
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To: stuartcr

"You must have been either an airdale or higher than an E-5."

No kidding. Ship's company below E-4 sucks on a carrier. What's liberty call?


31 posted on 10/18/2006 3:02:49 PM PDT by ryan71 (You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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To: ovrtaxt
Since you have an appreciation for that kind of thing, here you go:

http://meta.cdn.yahoo-streaming.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20061018-00000034-nnn-int-movie-000&media=wm300k

32 posted on 10/18/2006 3:17:41 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: ryan71

When you said it was a great experience, I knew you weren't lower rate ship's company.


33 posted on 10/19/2006 1:02:01 PM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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Actually, I was not the one who said that. I was just letting you know I was the .0001% on the thread that understood what you were saying.


34 posted on 10/19/2006 1:20:20 PM PDT by ryan71 (You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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Sorry, I was in a hurry, I should have paid better attention. I was on the Kennedy '72-'77...it was definitely not the highlight of any part of my life so far.


35 posted on 10/19/2006 2:21:15 PM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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