Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “America’s Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/forrestal-class-aircraft-carrier/.
America’s Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier
- Thread starter Mike H.
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Icepick Mike
Operator
Being a Naval Aviator off of a US Carrier has to be the best job in the world.
KillerFord1977
Emissary
Unless its 15’ swells at night in the rain
USMC6094
Professional
Life on the boat is truly a wonderful thing. The best 9 months of the nine years I spent in the Marine Corps was haze gray and underway.
Back when I seeing the world at 21, the Navy still a had a conventional powered carrier forward deployed to Japan, the Kitty Hawk.
Now it's nukes everywhere, and I believe the last of the conventional boats have all been sent to the scrap yard.....
Back when I seeing the world at 21, the Navy still a had a conventional powered carrier forward deployed to Japan, the Kitty Hawk.
Now it's nukes everywhere, and I believe the last of the conventional boats have all been sent to the scrap yard.....
Although not intentionally sunk as a reef. The USS America (CV-66) was sunk as a target/test ship for live fire testing in 2005. She rests in over 16,000 feet of water in the Atlantic. The results of said tests helped aid in the design of the Ford class, which was supposed to be the America class, but somebody had other plans.
