South Carolina Ping 
If you'd like to be on or off the South Carolina ping list, just click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
Posted on 03/24/2018 8:16:23 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
South Carolina Ping If you'd like to be on or off the South Carolina ping list, just click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
As long as they have trained non-PC crews manning (personing?) them.
Otherwise they have been speed bumps for larger ships, lately.
No, the left sees their window of opportunity after Øbozo opened it, and are going BTW as long as they can.
Our goal is to slam the brakes on, hard and brutally.
Interesting to me as my first gray ship assignment was on FFG60 Rodney M Davis which was also named after a black marine in Vietnam who jumped on a grenade.
word: kick the damn grenade into the grenade sump.
Incidentally, this Lt. was having a grand time explaining all the the weapon systems to the visitors. Young guy, maybe 4 years out of the Academy. I honestly think he could have talked for a couple of hours on the weapons. There was a light in his eye.
All of a sudden, a CPO yells out "wrap it up". Not "sir, please wrap it up", but just "wrap it up".
It was really interesting to see who really runs that function of the ship.
I thought first of Ralph Johnson, an original and still current percussionist and vocalist of Earth Wind and Fire.
Couldn’t figure out why they would name a ship after him.
Certainly not before they name a patrol boat the Little Richard.
Ralph Johnson died at age 19, he gave his life in battle to save his comrades. Strangely enough, if he came back to life today he would not be old enough to drink a beer legally in his home state of South Carolina. That just ain’t right.
Hodar: "These Littorial ships are small and with the communications capabilities they have..."
Not sure where your confusion comes from, Johnson is the opposite of a Littoral LCS.
It's an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, DDG-114:
"With upgrades to their AN/SPY-1 phased radar systems and their associated missile payloads as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, the ships of this class have also begun to demonstrate some promise as mobile antiballistic missile and anti-satellite weaponry platforms."
Among other roles, Arleigh Burkes serve on aircraft carrier strike groups as picket ships to protect the carriers.
We should also note your photo is DDG-81, the USS Winston Chruchill, same class as Johnson, but here is Johnson:
Similar USS Crest DDG-113:
USS Lawrence DDG-110
But I just don't realistically see them reversing it.
As you can guess, that dichotomy ha created a negative tension inside me.
The DDG I was on had a 14 on it's bow.
About 1/3 the displacement of the new USS Johnson.
Destroyers have come a long way since the old Tin Cans of my Dad's generation.
As a Dept Head, my peers and I had some long discussions about what would happen in the future with the lack of training. It’s happening now. After my first sea tour I had three deployments and thousands of hours as Officer of the Deck. Now I see CO’s and XO’s with only 3 deployments. On USS Last Ship, I was the only one who’d ever moored to a buoy or been in plane guard - how could we let our standards slip so far? The collisions were simply inexcusable - and not hard to avoid with a trained crew capable of taking decisive action.
“Our goal is to slam the brakes on, hard and brutally.”
But also have to stay within the Ten Commandments.
It’s a puzzlement.
Earth Wind and Fire was a pretty good band.
I hear a submarine is in the works: USS Peabo Bryson.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.