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Posted: 4/19/2011 10:47:50 AM EST

USS Carl Vinson CVN-70

Posted: 4/19/2011 10:50:10 AM EST

[#1]

CVN65 The Big "E"

Posted: 4/19/2011 10:51:53 AM EST

[#2]

USS Stonewall Jackson SSBN634

Posted: 4/19/2011 10:58:59 AM EST

[#3]

Plank Owner USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:00:03 AM EST

[#4]

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:08:31 AM EST

[#5]

The SS "Donna Rae".

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:12:42 AM EST

[#6]

I am to ashamed of the fugly assed old gal.

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:13:14 AM EST

[#7]

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:13:54 AM EST

[#8]

USS Benjamin Stoddert DDG-22

USS Worden CG-18

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:17:51 AM EST

[#9]

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:20:20 AM EST

[#10]

Previous ship (I'm a sand sailor now, for better or worse).

USS Lake Erie (CG-70)

And a few shots from when we took down the satellite.

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:32:28 AM EST

[#11]

Quoted:

(I'm a sand sailor now, for better or worse).

What did you cross over to?

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:43:22 AM EST

[#12]

USS El Paso LKA 117
USS Briscoe DD 977
USNS Leroy Grumman T AO 195
USNS Mt Baker T AE 34
USNS Saturn T AFS 10

take your pick 8 years sea duty as skivvey waver

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:53:42 AM EST

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:

(I'm a sand sailor now, for better or worse).

What did you cross over to?

I took GSA (or whatever they call them now) orders. So at least the dirt thing is only temporary.

Posted: 4/19/2011 11:58:07 AM EST

[#14]

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:12:06 PM EST

[#15]

Quoted:
http://i51.tinypic.com/dotg7t.jpg

Thats bothersome.

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:14:14 PM EST

[#16]

Quoted:
Plank Owner USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/koolf4/CVN76.jpg

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/koolf4/navy%20stuff/9.jpg

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/koolf4/navy%20stuff/RIO.jpg

I was in Rio when the USS Reagan was there and had been in the country for almost a year, it was quite a sight to see. Some of the Brazilian Navy folks I was around said that the brazie carrier Sao Paulo was a big ship but next to an American aircraft carrier, it was a match box. It was also about the same time the old man himself died. My parents sent me a copy of a news paper clipping of Reagan's death/funeral. My Brazilian asked me, "Who was Ronald Reagan, and why do people care so much about him?" I just told him that there was a time when the US was reletively weak, and he came and lead the way to streangthening the country and winning the Cold War.

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:15:43 PM EST

[#17]

No ship yet.

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:16:23 PM EST

[#18]

eta: not a Squid, spent time on a Gator Freighter as a Jarhead.

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:17:51 PM EST

[#19]

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:20:06 PM EST

[#20]

Quoted:
Previous ship (I'm a sand sailor now, for better or worse).

USS Lake Erie (CG-70)

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/7169/lakeerie1.jpg

And a few shots from when we took down the satellite.

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1410/mg0038o.jpg

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4241/mg0032.jpg

so your the one who knocked my dish network off the air

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:20:51 PM EST

[#21]

On watch at 2B for this pic.
Nov 5, 2001

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:21:53 PM EST

[#22]

Quoted:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lEtkuz8ScYM/TSMhyRdhBsI/AAAAAAAAEHw/cJfiVK2G3XQ/s1600/USS%2BDale%2B12-3.jpg

Why no more nuclear powered cruisers?

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:23:30 PM EST

[#23]

Fighting 84, USS Nimitz

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:24:50 PM EST

[#24]

http://usshollister.org/

My dad's ship....

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:31:21 PM EST

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Plank Owner USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/koolf4/CVN76.jpg

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/koolf4/navy%20stuff/9.jpg

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/koolf4/navy%20stuff/RIO.jpg

I was in Rio when the USS Reagan was there and had been in the country for almost a year, it was quite a sight to see. Some of the Brazilian Navy folks I was around said that the brazie carrier Sao Paulo was a big ship but next to an American aircraft carrier, it was a match box. It was also about the same time the old man himself died. My parents sent me a copy of a news paper clipping of Reagan's death/funeral. My Brazilian asked me, "Who was Ronald Reagan, and why do people care so much about him?" I just told him that there was a time when the US was reletively weak, and he came and lead the way to streangthening the country and winning the Cold War.

That's cool. Here's the Sao Paulo steaming next to us. We had some of their A4's come over and do some touch and go's on our deck. Ronald Reagan died the day we pulled into Rio. Our CO flew off to attend the funeral. I've got a copy of the Rio news papers from when we pulled in, wish I knew Portuguese. lol

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:32:56 PM EST

[#26]

Quoted:

http://www.public.navy.mil/usff/lsd48/PublishingImages/Ships%20Picture.jpg
eta: not a Squid, spent time on a Gator Freighter as a Jarhead.

Same Here:

LST 1187 USS Tuscaloosa

LPH 11 USS New Orleans

LPH 10 USS Tripoli

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:35:20 PM EST

[#27]

Quoted:

Previous ship (I'm a sand sailor now, for better or worse).

USS Lake Erie (CG-70)

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/7169/lakeerie1.jpg

And a few shots from when we took down the satellite.

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1410/mg0038o.jpg

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4241/mg0032.jpg

You're missing Hawaii now. haha, be safe.

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:38:52 PM EST

[#28]

the only "ship" I sailed on during my time in the navy was this or one of her sisters..
.
.

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:44:09 PM EST

[#29]

Dry dock

Scotland at the beginning of deployment

Posted: 4/19/2011 12:51:12 PM EST

[#30]

was decommissioned and sunk in 98. made an appearance in the movie pearl harbor.

Posted: 4/19/2011 1:09:15 PM EST

[#31]

99-03

AIMD IM2 Testcell.

Posted: 4/19/2011 1:11:26 PM EST

[#32]

Quoted:
http://mimg.ugo.com/201012/4/5/5/161554/cuts/final-countdown_480_poster.jpg

99-03

AIMD IM2 Testcell.

a favorite movie.

Posted: 4/19/2011 1:16:09 PM EST

[#33]

USS Waddell (DDG-24)

USS Iowa (BB-61)

Posted: 4/19/2011 1:16:56 PM EST

[#34]

USS Kauffman FFG 59

http://www.navysite.de/ffg/images/ffg59_6.jpg

USS Valdez FF 1096

Posted: 4/19/2011 1:51:35 PM EST

[#35]

USS Canopus sub tender

Posted: 4/19/2011 3:21:50 PM EST

[#36]

Some Great Looking Ships

Posted: 4/19/2011 4:00:24 PM EST

[#37]

USS Portsmouth SSN 707

Posted: 4/19/2011 4:13:49 PM EST

[#38]

Ok...you asked for it...

USS Yorktown (CVS 10)

USS John Paul Jones (DDG 32)

USS Dupont (DD 941)

USS Joseph Strauss (DDG 16)

USS Richard S. Edwards (DD 950)

USS Goldsborough (DDG 20)

USS Fletcher (DD 992)

I actually had a couple of shore tours mixed in there too!

FTR, they are all either razor blades or sunk as targets with the exception of my first ship. Ex-Yorktown is a museum in Charleston, SC.

Posted: 4/19/2011 4:19:49 PM EST

[#39]

Quoted:
USS Canopus sub tender

http://www.usscanopus.org/images/wallpaper/Canopus%20color%20with%20flag%20500p.jpg

Me too Plus these:

USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) = AFS aka Always F'ing Sailing or Attack Food Ship. Take your pick. She was sunk recently in a Sinkex. Hurts me to look thru these pics, although I would like to see a video of her going under. Guess its better to burn out, then fade away. Sinkex on Flickr

USNS H.H. Hess (T-AGS 38) - Oceanographic Unit 3

Posted: 4/19/2011 4:37:16 PM EST

[#40]

USS Long Beach CGN-9

USS Ranger CV-61

USS Chosin CG-65 (plankowner)

USS BonHomme Richard LHD-6 (I was a rider, not ships company, enroute to Iraqi Invasion)

USS Rushmore LSD-47 (again a rider, enroute back to Iraq again)

Another shot of Rushmore, looking into the welldeck....and you can see my boat in the well....

My "boat" for the first to trips to Iraq was actually THIS....

And for my last trip to Iraq....(FMF)

MTVR..

M1114...

Running convoys through the western Iraqi deserts....

Posted: 4/19/2011 5:01:01 PM EST

[#41]

Quoted:

USS Fletcher (DD 992)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/LWilde/DD992-1.jpg
.

When I was a kid someday I wanted to be an officer on a Spruance class. Then not only did I get medically disqualified but they went and threw those ships away.

Posted: 4/19/2011 5:25:38 PM EST

[#42]

Awesome pictures, keep them coming !

Posted: 4/19/2011 5:25:44 PM EST

[#43]

USS Portland LSD-37

Duty "A-Gang"

Posted: 4/19/2011 5:36:57 PM EST

[#44]

Pretty cool...

I saw two ships that my dad was on back in the 1960s ––

The USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16) and USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22). Infact dad was on the Stoddert when it aided the Enterprise when it had its fire in January 69.

In the 70s and 80s he was on the LY Spear, the Holland and the Shenandoah.

Posted: 4/19/2011 5:50:40 PM EST

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:

USS Fletcher (DD 992)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/LWilde/DD992-1.jpg
.

When I was a kid someday I wanted to be an officer on a Spruance class. Then not only did I get medically disqualified but they went and threw those ships away.

The first warship I ever set foot on was a Spruance-class DD, the USS Kinkaid (DD-965). She was SINKEXed. It was also my uncle's last ship (he was on a Newport-class LST, the Bristol County, before that; she's now in the Royal Moroccan Navy I believe). I got to take home a spent powder casing for the aft 5-inch gun (sadly my father threw it away shortly after I went to college); they fired both against towed targets as a demonstration. Also the first time I ever went in the engine room of a ship of any sort.

I also went on for a day at sea on the USS Constellation (CV-64) and the USS Boxer (LHD-4) with the Boy Scouts and NJROTC, respectively. The latter ship was the most depressing ship I've ever been on. I would not have been surprised if half the crew had tried to slit their wrists, jump overboard, or hang themselves and it was the filthiest ship, naval, merchant, or otherwise, that I have ever been on.

I've also been on the USS Rentz (FFG-46) for two weeks when I was in NJROTC. Got to fire a .50-caliber machine gun for the first time on that ship.

When I was in NROTC my first year in college we got to go for a weekend to Rhode Island and did some training on board small craft (I think they were PBIs, but I forget; they were armed with one machine gun, either an M-60 or M-2).

I've also been on a non-USN (former USN, though) ship, the TS Golden Bear, for two months at sea as well as for short cruises including day cruises (like during Fleet Week) and also plenty of watches in port (deck and engine); she used to be the USNS Maury (T-AGS-39). We're going to have Internet on the next cruise I go on, thankfully. They installed some sort of communications array that allows for that. I'm not sure what I'll go on for my commercial cruise when that comes around.

Posted: 4/19/2011 6:23:30 PM EST

[#46]

Quoted:

Quoted:

USS Fletcher (DD 992)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/LWilde/DD992-1.jpg
.

When I was a kid someday I wanted to be an officer on a Spruance class. Then not only did I get medically disqualified but they went and threw those ships away.

The first warship I ever set foot on was a Spruance-class DD, the USS Kinkaid (DD-965). She was SINKEXed. It was also my uncle's last ship (he was on a Newport-class LST, the Bristol County, before that; she's now in the Royal Moroccan Navy I believe). I got to take home a spent powder casing for the aft 5-inch gun (sadly my father threw it away shortly after I went to college); they fired both against towed targets as a demonstration. Also the first time I ever went in the engine room of a ship of any sort.

I also went on for a day at sea on the USS Constellation (CV-64) and the USS Boxer (LHD-4) with the Boy Scouts and NJROTC, respectively. The latter ship was the most depressing ship I've ever been on. I would not have been surprised if half the crew had tried to slit their wrists, jump overboard, or hang themselves and it was the filthiest ship, naval, merchant, or otherwise, that I have ever been on.

I've also been on the USS Rentz (FFG-46) for two weeks when I was in NJROTC. Got to fire a .50-caliber machine gun for the first time on that ship.

When I was in NROTC my first year in college we got to go for a weekend to Rhode Island and did some training on board small craft (I think they were PBIs, but I forget; they were armed with one machine gun, either an M-60 or M-2).

I've also been on a non-USN (former USN, though) ship, the TS Golden Bear, for two months at sea as well as for short cruises including day cruises (like during Fleet Week) and also plenty of watches in port (deck and engine); she used to be the USNS Maury (T-AGS-39). We're going to have Internet on the next cruise I go on, thankfully. They installed some sort of communications array that allows for that. I'm not sure what I'll go on for my commercial cruise when that comes around.

The Maury and Tanner were awful ships when they were commissioned. They had tons and tons of issues. They didn't stay in commission for very long. When I was about to get out of the Navy, my CO threatened to make me fly over to Japan and ride one of those ships back across the Pacific because they were short on Survey Supervisors. I was honestly pretty scared that I'd have to do it. They'd had several major fire and mechanical casualties. They had somehow brought her to Japan to patch her up after a severe casualty, and then were going to sail back to the US for a major overhaul. Those ships were built at the Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuilding Co. in Dundalk, Maryland. That place looked like absolute hell. The yard was literally falling apart. The workers and workmanship sucked ass. I went there on the USS Canopus for a 90 day overhaul. At the end of ~5 months, the CO ordered the ship towed away from the pier, dropped anchor. Ship's crew made the necessary repairs to make the ship ready for sea. They made the Bethlehem guys travel to Kings Bay to finish the contracted repairs. Fortunately for me, I had transferred off by this time to the USNS Hess (T-AGS 38), but my future bride was still on the Canopus. They spent 5 months on the ship in the winter w/ no steam for most of the time. At least nobody was shooting at us.

There was a Senator from Maryland who got the Navy to swing the contracts for the Maury and Tanner to Bethlehem against the Navy's wishes. Same thing happened to the Canopus. We were told that there was a yard in Jacksonville Fl that had won the bid, only to have it yanked and handed to Bethlehem. Keep in mind the Canopus was stationed in Kings Bay, GA at the time, so it would have been cheaper for the Navy and better for the crew to go to Jax. As an added bonus, we got to ride out Hurricane Hugo on the way to the yards. That was fun.

Posted: 4/19/2011 6:55:29 PM EST

[#47]

OPSEC :) I don't like being identifiable. I'm a spook

Posted: 4/19/2011 6:58:38 PM EST

[#48]

Quoted:

Quoted:

USS Fletcher (DD 992)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/LWilde/DD992-1.jpg
.

When I was a kid someday I wanted to be an officer on a Spruance class. Then not only did I get medically disqualified but they went and threw those ships away.

The first warship I ever set foot on was a Spruance-class DD, the USS Kinkaid (DD-965). She was SINKEXed. It was also my uncle's last ship (he was on a Newport-class LST, the Bristol County, before that; she's now in the Royal Moroccan Navy I believe). I got to take home a spent powder casing for the aft 5-inch gun (sadly my father threw it away shortly after I went to college); they fired both against towed targets as a demonstration. Also the first time I ever went in the engine room of a ship of any sort.

I also went on for a day at sea on the USS Constellation (CV-64) and the USS Boxer (LHD-4) with the Boy Scouts and NJROTC, respectively. The latter ship was the most depressing ship I've ever been on. I would not have been surprised if half the crew had tried to slit their wrists, jump overboard, or hang themselves and it was the filthiest ship, naval, merchant, or otherwise, that I have ever been on.

I've also been on the USS Rentz (FFG-46) for two weeks when I was in NJROTC. Got to fire a .50-caliber machine gun for the first time on that ship.

When I was in NROTC my first year in college we got to go for a weekend to Rhode Island and did some training on board small craft (I think they were PBIs, but I forget; they were armed with one machine gun, either an M-60 or M-2).

I've also been on a non-USN (former USN, though) ship, the TS Golden Bear, for two months at sea as well as for short cruises including day cruises (like during Fleet Week) and also plenty of watches in port (deck and engine); she used to be the USNS Maury (T-AGS-39). We're going to have Internet on the next cruise I go on, thankfully. They installed some sort of communications array that allows for that. I'm not sure what I'll go on for my commercial cruise when that comes around.

The Maury and Tanner were awful ships when they were commissioned. They had tons and tons of issues. They didn't stay in commission for very long. When I was about to get out of the Navy, my CO threatened to make me fly over to Japan and ride one of those ships back across the Pacific because they were short on Survey Supervisors. I was honestly pretty scared that I'd have to do it. They'd had several major fire and mechanical casualties. They had somehow brought her to Japan to patch her up after a severe casualty, and then were going to sail back to the US for a major overhaul. Those ships were built at the Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuilding Co. in Dundalk, Maryland. That place looked like absolute hell. The yard was literally falling apart. The workers and workmanship sucked ass. I went there on the USS Canopus for a 90 day overhaul. At the end of ~5 months, the CO ordered the ship towed away from the pier, dropped anchor. Ship's crew made the necessary repairs to make the ship ready for sea. They made the Bethlehem guys travel to Kings Bay to finish the contracted repairs. Fortunately for me, I had transferred off by this time to the USNS Hess (T-AGS 38), but my future bride was still on the Canopus. They spent 5 months on the ship in the winter w/ no steam for most of the time. At least nobody was shooting at us.

There was a Senator from Maryland who got the Navy to swing the contracts for the Maury and Tanner to Bethlehem against the Navy's wishes. Same thing happened to the Canopus. We were told that there was a yard in Jacksonville Fl that had won the bid, only to have it yanked and handed to Bethlehem. Keep in mind the Canopus was stationed in Kings Bay, GA at the time, so it would have been cheaper for the Navy and better for the crew to go to Jax. As an added bonus, we got to ride out Hurricane Hugo on the way to the yards. That was fun.

Didn't know that about that class of ships. The ex-Maury doesn't have such severe issues anymore, I can say that much. They of course ripped out all of the survey equipment and some other equipment (the computer racks are still there, though) and also changed the screws. I'm not sur what other changes were made.