I like Ships too

Parking problems

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My last ship, USS Vincennes (CG-49)
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She is now stricken from the records, and cut into razor blades, but she was a fine ship, third of her class (Ticonderoga).

When I transferred ashore, I was the only enlisted ever to qualify as Officer of the Deck (Underway) in her. I think that one or two fellow Chiefs followed after I left, though.
 




Uh, oh. Another Defense Department boondoggle?


Will the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (known derisively to critics as the "Little
Crappy Ship") become another DoD nightmare alongside Lockheed Martin's
colossal twice-over-budget-and-still-grounded F-35 airplane?

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HMS Vanguard

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As a boy, I watched a firing drill for the main armament, and played with the AA guns.
 
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