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

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lWhen 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@gmail.com> 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
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