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For The First Time In 13 Years, U.S. Deploys 7 Aircraft Carriers Simultaneously
Capitol Zero ^ | 11-7-2017

Posted on 11/06/2017 6:49:06 PM PST by blam

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To: DAC21
But is there anyone that knows how to steer them? Evidence would point to maybe not.

My grandfather was First Lieutenant on the Bunker Hill during WWII. He was one of four officers qualified to conn the ship, and also trained the crew extensively in damage control. He has to be spinning in his grave over what the Navy has become.

21 posted on 11/06/2017 7:24:16 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: EQAndyBuzz

LOL, Good Point...


22 posted on 11/06/2017 7:24:33 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: DesertRhino
USS Barak Obama
23 posted on 11/06/2017 7:28:15 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: EQAndyBuzz; raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON

[“Siri, launch night ops against Pyongyang”]

“O.K., launching “Seinfeld” clips of Donna Chang”

The rines were crossed. It really is ridicurous.


24 posted on 11/06/2017 7:28:25 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: henkster
I full agree with you, no politician should be the subject of hero worship.
25 posted on 11/06/2017 7:31:34 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: DAC21

“But is there anyone that knows how to steer them? Evidence would point to maybe not.”


Yes, but at least an aircraft carrier can run over most ships, unlike a destroyer.


26 posted on 11/06/2017 7:33:13 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: blam

No fleet is complete without ENTERPRISE!


27 posted on 11/06/2017 7:34:58 PM PST by Enterprise (Do away with all symbols of past slavery. Start with the Democrat Party.)
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To: blam

Asians better take heed. The US is serious. NKOR needs to be de-weaponized, silenced, and taken off line. The next step should be to destroy NKOR crops...something to make them pay attention.


28 posted on 11/06/2017 7:35:04 PM PST by Rapscallion (Politics just makes us hate each other.)
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To: Bryan24

LOL!!!!


29 posted on 11/06/2017 7:37:34 PM PST by Enterprise (Do away with all symbols of past slavery. Start with the Democrat Party.)
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To: Rapscallion

Grass is part of Nork crops. Roundup would be effective.


30 posted on 11/06/2017 7:38:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blam
Tick... tick... tick...


31 posted on 11/06/2017 7:50:37 PM PST by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: blam
of course, the left has already chosen sides...


32 posted on 11/06/2017 7:51:30 PM PST by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: blam

Is all this only meant to Shock, Awe and intimidate Kim Jong Un?
Or is something about to happen?
If there is any ‘action’ about to come down, I suspect nothing will happen until the President is gone far from that part of the world.


33 posted on 11/06/2017 7:53:18 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Bon mots

I could watch that All Day!


34 posted on 11/06/2017 7:54:16 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Ace's Dad

Well, in my experience as a Seabee Warfare Qualified Chief, and experience in both Somalia and the former Yugoslavia (Croatia, Bosnia), I see the officer corps as 70% inept and 30% good men. I hope you’re one of the men, cause the rest of your team are rank sucking, back stabbing, spoiled assholes, no better than NFL Players who take a knee. Maybe you noticed at Ward Room meetings? My expectations have nothing to do with what the officer corps does, or doesn’t do. I couldn’t GAF. I expect Senior Enlisted Chiefs, Senior Chiefs and Master Chiefs to perform at a level that makes the officer corps a non-factor. I want, as you should want, these knowledgeable folks to DO THEIR JOBS, and not let some lax command structure end up killing our people.


35 posted on 11/06/2017 8:01:59 PM PST by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

In the mid-eighties we took a NIMITZ class through the English Channel at O-dark-thirty, 30kts, launching and recovering in fog and rain - because we could.


36 posted on 11/06/2017 8:58:11 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: DAC21; Paladin2; 2111USMC

Practice makes perfect!


37 posted on 11/06/2017 10:24:53 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: henkster

A landlubber here, but I could not help but feel disgust at “USS Gabrielle Giffords.”

Bring back the names of US Navy “ships of the line.” Thanks.


38 posted on 11/06/2017 10:30:19 PM PST by Sam_Damon
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To: dirtboy
"My grandfather was First Lieutenant on the Bunker Hill during WWII."

My grandfather was a painter in the Navy in WW2!

;-D

[Mom's side of the family: not very military. Dad's side: Army enlisted.]


39 posted on 11/06/2017 10:34:42 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: SaveFerris; dfwgator

We could build the next carrier group at much lower cost. Name the ships after members of Insane Clown Posse, GWar and the like. Then, lower standards for recruits a little more and nuke the enemy in color. Well, okay, lower standards than that. Call it the trailer trash fleet.


40 posted on 11/06/2017 10:46:09 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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