Posted on 12/24/2012 6:16:46 AM PST by blam
The World's Largest Naval Station Is Packed Tight For Christmas
Robert Johnson
December 24,2012
The Navy does its best to get troops home for the holidays when it can, but this display at Norfolk Naval base is still more the exception than the rule.
Nine "Flattops," five aircraft carriers, and four amphibious assault ships, are crammed together here at Norfolk among smaller ships and nuclear submarines from December 20, Navy photos. The nine flattops alone, number more than all eight battleships at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., the world’s largest naval station.
The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
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Can you take the tarp with the red X’s off them so we could have a peek?
Bunched up close together? Why am I thinking if Pearl Harbor.
wow, wish the pictures had come through.
LOL at the comment at source:
“Don’t show this picture to the Japanese.”
Loose Lips sink Ships!
I use to guard a slot on pier 22. It was not a target pier.
Don’t show this picture to Iran, the rest of the terrorists, and maybe a few others in the US, as well.
Pearl Harbor came to mind here, too
A cluster of exocets would have a no-miss target.
Pics at the link at top of page.
I certainly hope that seven of those are just huge rubber decoys
Maybe Prof. Ayers and Prof. Dorne of Northwestern University will be tempted to relive their past.
What are these white tent things on CVN-77
Pictures come through at the link.
For anybody ever stationed at NOB, it’s an amazing group of photos.
Long time ago, used to walk from D & S piers,out the gate to fleet landing, back in the gate, to go to the EM club.
Things have changed a bit.
12 Drummers Drumming
11 Pipers Piping
10 Lords-a-Leaping
9 Flattops packing
I was stationed their during the seventies, on board the Kennedy.
If they are here, who is protecting the USA?
Because it’s eerily similar to the Pearl Harbor arrangement of ships?
I don't know...I'm an old diesel submarine guy.
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