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GenrXr
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| Snipe wrote: | [Your uncle served on the same ship my father did  . The Ticonderoga destroyer. Today the Ticonderoga is a Aegis Class Cruiser, but your uncle and my father served on the old destroyer class one. And your uncles sacrifice was well known to all that served on the Ticonderoga as my father told me. Everyone who served on the Ticonderoga post WWII lived in the shadows of great men such as your Uncle. |
Excuse me folks, but the WWII USS Ticonderoga CV14 was an Essex
class aircraft carrier not a destroyer. The USS Ticonderoga CG17 is
(was) the first of the Ticonderoga class aegis cruisers which is correct.
It used to be that you could tell what a ship was by it's name alone,
but nowadays they just seem to call them any old thing that comes
to mind.[/quote]
Just talked to my father and your right, I had the ships mixed up. He served on ships in the Enterprise battlegroup, one being the Galveston and I couldn't understand the other ships name.
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blue9t3
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Hey Tin Can, what would've been a good name for that new ship? cant remember what its called but It can fight on the surface, in the air, and underwater at the same time! for me " THE USS HAMMER" comes to mind! 
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Snipe
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| blue9t3 wrote: | | Hey Tin Can, what would've been a good name for that new ship? cant remember what its called but It can fight on the surface, in the air, and underwater at the same time! for me " THE USS HAMMER" comes to mind! |
You sure that you haven't been overdosing on "Gundam Seed" at
midnight on Friday nights on the Cartoon Network? Or maybe "Big O"
or "Transformers"? OK. So I've got 8 grandkids waiting for their
grandpa to dose them up on extremely violent Japanese anime. (They're
cute, they're sexy, They're homicidal maniacs) Gotta fill in the void
left by turning off the MSM somewhere. 
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I B Squidly
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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Tatoos: Used to was Disneyland wouldn't let you in with one. Today in Japan the ban continues at all public facilities. The grandeous body art of the Yakusa carefully ends at the cuff and collar. In the PI a tattoo signifies jail time.
Ship Nomenclature has changed and blurred overtime:
Famous ships and battles were CVs but now are CGs.
States were BBs but became Boomers.
Cities used to be Cruisers became Attack subs and oilers/auxiliers which used to be rivers and mountains.
Indian tribes showed up as fleet tugs and such.
Presidents (and the occasional Appropriation Committee member) are CVs.
The Japanese colorfully name their destroyers as Wind in the Trees or Snow on the Mountain. The Brits named a few for insects (for amusement we called our can the Goki Buti or Eppys). For the US destroyers have always been named for heros. I'm all for a petition for a USS John Oneill! |
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Snipe
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For the US destroyers have always been named for heros. I'm all for a petition for a USS John Oneill![/quote]
Opps. Hold up there a sec. I'm all for a USS John O'Neill, but in the
future. A LONG time in the future. The only tincan named for a LIVING
person that I can recall is the USS Arleigh Burke.
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blue9t3
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I think we need to build a ship and name it the Teddy Kennedy, but i'm not sure what kind of ship? 
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GenrXr
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| blue9t3 wrote: | | I think we need to build a ship and name it the Teddy Kennedy, but i'm not sure what kind of ship? |
I recommend a bridge repair ship, since Teddy likes to break their guard rails.
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Snipe
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| blue9t3 wrote: | | I think we need to build a ship and name it the Teddy Kennedy, but i'm not sure what kind of ship? |
Yard Oiler. Lord knows that he's oiled most of the time.
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