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Posted on 05/12/2019 5:21:03 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Id like to see it sold to Taiwan, and with a agreement to train the navy there on operations. along with a hundred aircraft, escorts, a few attack subs also.
Howdy, Kathy.
Was it a no-alarm morning for you? A gal’s gotta have a day to sleep in at least once a week. :-)
Howdy radu! Hope you had a lovely day today! Did the storms bypass you?
I also made 3 cruises aboard the Enterprise in the latter half of the 1960’s. I was in the air wing with fighter squadron VF-96. I worked the flight deck as a trouble shooter.
Yes Ma’am, gonna do my best without wearing myself out.
Now I can’t wait to retire.
Howdy, LUV!
It was pretty quiet today. Dreary, breezy, and chilly outside so I did inside stuff. But since it was cool and is right chilly tonight, that means it’s cool in Clara’s side of the house so I’m heading there to toss out more junk. Gotta take advantage while I can.
No storms here at all. It drizzled last night and Hubby said there was a shower shortly after it got light this morning. Two days rain-free ahead and the rain comes back Wed.
At least the crops are happy. LOL Our corn is growing by leaps and bounds.
I hope it was a pretty day there and not too hot.
It was nice and cool here. It was “supposed” to rain, but of course it didn’t. It was all together a good day!
Hope you find something more interesting that junk over there tonight. Kind of motivates ya when it’s something usable.
The founder, original owner and then-CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car served on the U.S.S. Enterprise, CVN - 6 during WWII. That is why he named the company after the mighty carrier! ;-)
I didn’t know that!
How's everyone doing this morning?
Drat that rain for not showing up. At least it was cool. Enjoy that while you can!
Nothing at all worth keeping tonight. Everything was bagged to be burned. At least the reek of Avon isn’t nearly as bad now and that’s a plus.
There’s the saying, “You learn something new every day,” and this is an interesting thing to learn. A fine choice to name his company after.
Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))
Was Gizmo on good behavior yesterday or did he need to be kept on the leash?
There was a sexual assault that happened up the the Northwest part of the lake. We don't usually go up to that part up the lake, just the Southwest side. They said they would have units patrolling the area through out the summer.
We did get to find some spots where Gizmo could play though once we got past the locked gate. However, there were a couple of guys in one spot on paddle boats.
It's only going to get more crowded so we'll see what happens.
Yikes! Not the kind of excitement one wants to have happen at the lake. I hope they caught the jerk.
At least y’all were able to have some fun while you were there. But you’re right ..... it’s going to get more crowded as the weather warms up more. And school kids will be out for the summer soon too.
“I can still see in my mind’s eye how HUGE she is, like a mountain rising out of the sea.”
In late 1966, I had opportunity to see Enterprise in Subic Bay. My mind’s eye was also overwhelmed by how huge she was. Standing dockside was like being in the shade of a mountain.
We only sailed briefly, what amounted to taxi rides in USS Henrico and USS Iwo Jima, beyond comprehension what an extended cruise in Enterprise was like.
Dropping by to say HELLO and HAPPY Monday.
Mother’s Day was good, even though one son forgot to wish me Happy Mother’s Day...maybe I should take him out of my will...LOL
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
Rain, rain, and more rain. Geez, we need a day or three of sunshine to dry up the ground.
Thank you goes out to our AWESOME military, our AWESOME Allies, and their AWESOME families. God Bless you all.
Thanks, Chode...great ship!
Now, of course, there are many TV programs about megastructures and colossal engineering. But back then, one had to see it to believe it!
Good Morning, Beachie!
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The first Enterprise originally belonged to the British and cruised on Lake Champlain to supply their posts in Canada. After the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by the Americans on 10 May 1775, it became the object of desire in the mind of Benedict Arnold who realized he would not have control of Lake Champlain until its capture. He learned it was stationed at a small British garrison at St. John’s on the Richelieu in Canada, and set out from Skenesborough (Whitehall, New York) in the commandeered sloop Liberty for that place on 14 May 1775. He surprised and captured the British garrison on 18 May, took possession of the 70-ton sloop, and sailed it south to Crown Point. It was named Enterprise by Arnold and fitted out with twelve long 4-pounder carriage guns and ten swivels. About 1 August 1775, Captain James Smith was sent by the New York Provincial Congress to General Philip Schuyler and ordered to take command of “the sloop Enterprise.”
The seventh Enterprise (CV 6) was the first of the Enterprise ships to receive the nickname of Big 'E'. Other nicknames included the Lucky 'E', the 'Grey Ghost' and the 'Galopping Ghost'. CV-6 became the sixth aircraft carrier to join the U.S. Navy fleet upon its commissioning as a Yorktown-class carrier on Oct. 3, 1936. It had an overall length of 827 feet and displaced more than 32,000 tons of water. Enterprise fought in many of the key Pacific theater battles of World War II, and was one of only three American carriers commissioned prior to World War II to survive the war (aloCV6 Flight Deckng with USS Saratoga and USS Ranger). 
Hawaiian island of Oahu on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 when it received news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Enterprise became one of the first ships to respond to its nation's call to war and went on to earn 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, for the crucial roles it played in numerous battles including Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, and the 'Doolittle Raid' on Tokyo. Japanese forces announced that the Big 'E' had been sunk in battle on three separate occasions throughout its Pacific campaign. 
four propeller shafts. This was a daring undertaking. for never before had two nuclear reactors ever been harnessed together. As such, when the engineers first started planning the ship’s propulsion system, they were uncertain how it would work, or even if it would work according to their theories. 
created, laid end-to-end, would stretch 2400 miles, or from Miami to Los Angeles. 
