Re: [GZG] Re: Ship Roles & Classes Part Deux

["Roger Books" <roger.books@xxxxxxxxx>]

When I was on the carrier (CV-66, USS America, '85-'89) during the cold war we were considered expendable once the airplanes were off  the deck.  The expected scenario was 100s of tactical nukes.  The small boys in our CV-BG would be giving themselves up not to keep the carrier alive, but to keep the carrier alive long enough to get the planes off the deck with their retaliatory nukes.

I'm glad those days are gone, It's still a dangerous world but now we worry about a terrorist destroying a city.  In the "good old days" a stupid politician or military leader could have destroyed big chunks of the world.

Roger

On 5/17/07, Indy <indy.kochte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Of course, very few navies out there at the time he was in could have seriously threatened a carrier battle group, so the whole thing was pretty academic in the minds of he and his crew. But I believe they would have totally offered up their ship to save a missile hit or four on the carrier. That was, after all, what they were trained to do.

Brave. But expendable. :-/

Mk

_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l

_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l