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2006-05-18 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-18 10:15|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Tomorrow's headline:

NAVY SINKS OWN SHIP, BUSH APPROVES"

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-18 13:13|| 2006-05-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#2 ABC calls it a sunken "battleship". I also think they mispronounced the name. Ore-es-karny? I thought it was Or-risk-anee.

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-18 13:29|| 2006-05-18 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Murdoc Online has a bunch of photos here.

Posted by Chinter Flarong9283 2006-05-18 13:32|| 2006-05-18 13:32|| Front Page Top

#4
I understand they were hoping she'd settle flat, keel even.

Doesn't appear that they achieved this. I don't much care about the scuttling of the Oriskany, but I was incensed over the way they did the USS America.

I served aboard her. R.I.P CV-66!

-M

Posted by Manolo 2006-05-18 14:15|| 2006-05-18 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 They said they won't know for sure if she settled upright until later today, but they think she did:

Link.

Posted by Chinter Flarong9283 2006-05-18 15:02|| 2006-05-18 15:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Photos on strategypage. Click here

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-18 17:23|| 2006-05-18 17:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Re: #4
I was incensed over the way they did the USS America.

Easy, Manolo--
CV-66 died so that later ships and their crews might live. Having real-world battle damage data to study for design improvements is hard to beat.

Anyway, FWIW, I've always thought for sentimental reasons that the best use for old warships that you are otherwise going to scrap is as hard targets for weapons development or training. It just seems proper, or completing a circle somehow...and they still wind up as reef structures if sited right. A winner all around, in my little world.

Posted by N guard 2006-05-18 18:10|| 2006-05-18 18:10|| Front Page Top

#8
"...best use for old warships that you are otherwise going to scrap is as hard targets for weapons development or training."

Sure. No argument there. But the America? The nations namesake. She should have been turned into a museum. Sink some other rust bucket...like, say, the Oriskany, Independence or the Kennedy.

I guess I just have a soft spot for CV-66 because I served on her for three years. That's all.

-M

Posted by Manolo 2006-05-18 21:02|| 2006-05-18 21:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Unbelievable - I still can't believe the "Mighty O" could not had been saved as per a floating museum, not even by the town or city of Oriskany itself, nor by any of surrounding areas or by the State of New York. This was one of the best-known, near-legendary FIGHTING SHIPS in the US Navy, movie TOP GUN notwithstanding!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-18 22:39|| 2006-05-18 22:39|| Front Page Top

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