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Saturday, March 29, marks National Vietnam War Veterans Day.
Join us as we honor all Vietnam and Vietnam-Era veterans – especially our Naval Special Warfare heroes! From Underwater Demolition Teams, to our Brown Water boat operators, to the first Navy SEALs – their courage and sacrifice in challenging environments more than 50 years ago forged the elite force NSW is today. We recognize their service and offer a long-overdue welcome home. Thank you to all who served!

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May 14th 1945, a bomb-laden kamikaze dove straight through five decks on USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Okinawa. The resulting explosion blew the 15-ton forward elevator 400 feet into the air. Swift damage control extinguished all fires within 30 minutes.
Appearing as if they were walking on water, USS Enterprise sailors who had been blown overboard by the explosion used the forward elevator as a life raft until being rescued by USS Waldron.

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Lenny said:
I said this back in the 1970s and I'll say it again. Over 58,000 Soldiers lost their lives and others have had shorter lives because of the war.

They could have bombed the crap out of North Vietnam instead.
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The War in Vietnam was not about wining for freedom. It was not about saving a fledgling Foreign Democracy.
It was about exercising and funding the military industrial complex of which President Eisenhower had warned.
No one in places of power must have listened to his wisdom.
And so, over 58,000 young American's died.
Needlessly.

For what?????

How many young men were forced to violate their religious beliefs and kill another soul because their government forced them to?
Think about that for a moment.
 
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FrancSevin said:
The War in Vietnam was not about wining for freedom. It was not about saving a fledgling Foreign Democracy.
It was about exercising and funding the military industrial complex of which President Eisenhower had warned.
No one in places of power must have listened to his wisdom.
And so, over 58,000 young American's died.
Needlessly.

For what?????

How many young men were forced to violate their religious beliefs and kill another soul because their government forced them to?
Think about that for a moment.
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I agree. That's my point now and was back in the late 1960s when I was in the Navy.
 
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When you fuel up an SR-71, sitting on the ground in the hot sun, the fuel dribbles out on the tarmac. That’s not an apocryphal tale, it’s really true.
When you want to start the engines on an SR-71, you can’t use a standard airport start cart, you have to shackle each engine up to a pair of big V8 muscle car engines. Then, to get the fuel to ignite, you have to inject a special, toxic, high temperature hypergolic chemical mix similar to rocket propellant.
So you do all that, and you get the thing into the air, and you have to have a tanker waiting, just for you. You can’t take off with full tanks, and you can’t fly very far without them—or with them for that matter.
So you fill ’er up and accelerate to cruising speed. Only then do the tanks heat up enough to expand and seal up the leaks.
So you refuel—a few times—and you get to wherever you need to go—which is going to be deep inside the territory of somebody who wants you dead, because otherwise, why are you up there? And while you are flying around at bat-outa-hell speed, if you pull off your glove and touch the wind screen, you’ll burn your hand.
And if you flame-out for any reason, you only have three shots per engine at restarting, because it’s not like you can do it by clicking an igniter plug. You have to carry enough of that hypergolic restart mix to handle contingencies, but not enough to turn the aircraft into a bomb.
Flying the SR-71 was dangerous and fabulously expensive. So as soon as the military decided they could get by without it, they retired it.
That’s a shame too, because the SR-71 is the closest thing to a space plane ever built.
 
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When you fuel up an SR-71, sitting on the ground in the hot sun, the fuel dribbles out on the tarmac. That’s not an apocryphal tale, it’s really true.
When you want to start the engines on an SR-71, you can’t use a standard airport start cart, you have to shackle each engine up to a pair of big V8 muscle car engines. Then, to get the fuel to ignite, you have to inject a special, toxic, high temperature hypergolic chemical mix similar to rocket propellant.
So you do all that, and you get the thing into the air, and you have to have a tanker waiting, just for you. You can’t take off with full tanks, and you can’t fly very far without them—or with them for that matter.
So you fill ’er up and accelerate to cruising speed. Only then do the tanks heat up enough to expand and seal up the leaks.
So you refuel—a few times—and you get to wherever you need to go—which is going to be deep inside the territory of somebody who wants you dead, because otherwise, why are you up there? And while you are flying around at bat-outa-hell speed, if you pull off your glove and touch the wind screen, you’ll burn your hand.
And if you flame-out for any reason, you only have three shots per engine at restarting, because it’s not like you can do it by clicking an igniter plug. You have to carry enough of that hypergolic restart mix to handle contingencies, but not enough to turn the aircraft into a bomb.
Flying the SR-71 was dangerous and fabulously expensive. So as soon as the military decided they could get by without it, they retired it.
That’s a shame too, because the SR-71 is the closest thing to a space plane ever built.
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Yea, well my turbocharged car does that too. ;)
 
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Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS George Washington CVN-73 arriving in port to commemorate the ships 18 years of Naval service. George Washington, the Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, is in Yokosuka, Japan, to celebrate the 4th of July during its 2010 Summer Patrol. YOKOSUKA, JAPAN
07.03.2010
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January 3rd, 1987 the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) as large harbor tugs and small boats escort it out of San Diego Bay. The KITTY HAWK has been reassigned to the Atlantic Fleet. Naval Submarine Base, San Diego, is in the background/USN Image/ PH3 Charlo Wharton

(aircraft carriers are AMAZING!!)

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What is considered the most powerful battleship in history in terms of firepower, size, and protection?
That would be the famous Japanese battleship Yamato. She was the largest battleship ever built at 863 feet (263 meters) long, 128 feet (39 meters) wide, and displacing 72,808 tons. This massive size was done to support her capabilities, as Yamato was also the most powerfully armed and armored battleship ever built, nicknamed a super battleship for a reason.

Nine 18.1-inch (46 cm) guns served as Yamato’s main battery, housed in three 3-gun turrets, two forward and one aft. These were the largest and most powerful guns ever built in history, each capable of firing a 3,220 pound shell up to 26.1 miles to penetrate up to 20-inches (51 cm) of reinforced armor. Accuracy was very good, Yamato’s weight and beam were an amazing gun platform, she used ripple firing, and combined with the innate accuracy of a larger weapon gave Yamato a shell dispersion of just 440–550 yards at max range. These main guns were supported by six 6.1-inch (155 mm) guns in two 3-gun turrets, one forward and aft, twenty four 5-inch (127 mm) dual guns in twelve twin turrets, six on each side, and up to 162 1-inch (25 mm) automatic cannons (which were called moral boosters for a reason).

Armor was equally good, a 16.1-inch (41 cm) main belt sloped at a 19 degree angle and a 7.9–9.1–13.4-inch (20–23–34 cm) deck protected their citadel, which was the thickest armor ever produced for such armor. Yamato’s 25.6-inch (65 cm) turret armor was proven to be immune to all naval guns at all realistic battle ranges, and it’s safe to assume to 22-inch (56 cm) barbette armor carried a similar effect. This undoubtedly gave Yamato the best armor of any battleship ever built. Even the most powerful 1,000 pound AP bombs deflected off their deck, while Yamato was capable of just eating up torpedoes. During her final battle, even by at least 7, but probably 9 torpedoes, she was still making 18 knots, and only listing at 10 degrees (albeit all void spaces had been flooded, making further counter flooding impossible without drastic measures).

Yamato was designed to make 27 knots, but proved capable of 28.2 knots on sea trials, and fire control was pretty good. Four sets of massive 49 foot (15 meter) optical systems decked the ship, three in each main battery gun turret and one on top the pagoda mast. Advanced electromagnetic calculators served as the main fire control system, and this was supported by a basic set of fire control radar.

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USS Enterprise (CVN-65), 2001. Sailors onboard the aircraft carrier spell out “E=MC2 x 40” on the flight deck to mark forty years of nuclear power service as the ship returns from deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Photographed by Photographer’s Mate Third Class Douglas M. Pearlman, November 5, 2001. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

40 years. Amazing!!!

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