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To: A.A. Cunningham
The forrest fire was 56,000 tons

the nimitz was over 90,000 tons

We sailors don't put much stock in lenth, we deal in tonnage!

26 posted on 10/24/2009 3:24:23 PM PDT by exnavy (GOD save the republic)
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To: exnavy
The forrest fire was 56,000 tons

Incorrect. Forrestal exceeded 78,000 tons.

the nimitz was over 90,000 tons

The Enterprise, which was commissioned 13 1/2 years prior to Nimitz, exceeds 93,000 tons.

Even if I were to allow you to backtrack on your earlier claim, which I won't, the facts speak for themselves. Nimitz wasn't the first of the "big carriers".

Forrestal: 78,200 tons
Saratoga: 78,200 tons
Ranger: 78,200 tons
Independence 80,000 tons
Kitty Hawk: 82,200 tons
Constellation: 82,200 tons
Enterprise: 93,500 tons
America: 82,200 tons
Kennedy: 80,950 tons

We sailors don't put much stock in lenth(sic), we deal in tonnage!

Most of you put more stock in BS than you do in facts.

31 posted on 10/24/2009 3:55:51 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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