We Can Attack Iran, Says US Commander

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-19-2007 | Alex Spillius

[mad_as_he$$]

The Might Mo is in Pearl. The Iowa is at the reserve fleet in Suisun Bay. The New Jersey is in the Delaware River. The Wisconsin is in The Hampton Roads Naval Museum. The Iowa could be recommissioned on 6 month notice. The others have had large amounts of gear removed.

[#1CTYankee]

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/battleships/bb-list.asp

[cinives]

Sounds good to me.

[Redleg Duke]

True. We have plenty of strategic capacity that hasn’t been used in years!

[ex-snook]

So why are we ending the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?

[Mr Inviso]

“The Iowa is at the reserve fleet in Suisun Bay”The Iowa could be recommissioned on 6 month notice. The others have had large amounts of gear removed”

From the last time I had a look at her, the Iowa would probably tke a bit more than 6 months to really be ready. Not to mention repairing the one turret that was out of commission even before Iowa was placed in reserve. Her decks are a MESS, among other things, as very little has been done in the way of maintenance while she’s been laid up at Suisun.

[colorado tanker]

It's pretty cool that the "bookends" of WWII are so close together at Pearl.

The Navy had planned to build five more battleships, the Montana Class, but canceled the order when it became apparent the aircraft carrier would be the capital ship of the war. One of them was to be a new Maine, which would have been nice symbolism, too.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/usnshtp/bb/bb67.htm

[RKV]

"walk away afterward and make no attempt to help them rebuild"

Works for me. After all the death and destruction the mullahs have exported, it would seem fitting. Not our style though. Personally, I wish it was. We would take much less $h!+ from the rest of the world.

[mad_as_he$$]

Any re-actvation of the Iowa would not include the damaged turret. She served out her last session with that inoperable. I have been told it is sealed and welded shut, including all of the ammo handling equipment. You would be surprised how fast they could get her on line if they wanted to. There are four levels (I think) of ship storage (Jeff Head may know more on this) and the Iowa is kept at the 6 months recommission level (at least that’s what the guys in Stockton say. )hey are trying to get her as a museum).

[#1CTYankee]

My Son and I were on a tour of the USS Massachusetts as part of his cub scout pack, lucky for me we got to sleep over night /s. The beds were four high and made of stretched canvas tied with rope.Imagine yourself with 9 parents and 21 children trying to sleep in these quarters, needless to say lights out at 10:00 PM turned into 11:00+ as the kids were too excited to sleep. I had the privilege of being on the bunk three high with a tooter below. Needless to say I slept about 3 hours and was crippled the next day. (I broke my back in 2000)

My son loved the adventure so I guess it was worth it.

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Here he is in front of the 16 inch turrets.

[#1CTYankee]

I’m not sure if the Iowa is the ship I read about but one of the ships had a damaged turret and was replaced with one from another decommissioned ship.

BTW, any idea why FR is gagging as it has been all day?

[mad_as_he$$]

According to wiki:

Aftermath The #2 Turret was trained forward with its own mechanism after the explosion and superficial repairs were conducted. All the related repair pieces are stored inside the turret, but the turret has never been completely repaired. Iowa deployed to Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in mid-year. Iowa decommissioned in Norfolk, 26 October 1990. Iowa, as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, was berthed at the Naval Education and Training Center in Newport, from 24 September 1998 to 8 March 2001 when the ship began her journey, under tow, to California. The ship arrived in Suisun Bay near San Francisco on 21 April 2001 and is part of the Reserve Fleet there. Due to the damage in Turret 2, the Navy put New Jersey into the mothball fleet, even though the training mechanisms on New Jersey’s 16 inch guns had been welded down. The cost to fix New Jersey was considered less than the cost to fix Iowa; however, the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act of 1999 demanded that the Navy substitute Iowa for New Jersey; additionally, the Navy was to arrange for New Jersey’s donation for use as a museum ship. The Navy made the switch in January 1999, paving the way for Camden, New Jersey, to acquire USS New Jersey. Iowa was maintained in accordance with the National Defense Authorization Act of 1996 until 2006, when the Secretary of the Navy struck Iowa and placed the ship on donation hold to allow transfer for use as a museum ship.

[#1CTYankee]

[#1CTYankee]

Okay I was close, the memory isn’t as good as when I was younger. ;-D