Four of the most powerful ships ever built. All now long retired. I served on the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) from '94-'98 and did work on both the Independence and Constellation. On it I went all up and down the West Coast including a week in Acapulco, Tazmania, Australia, Japan, S. Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and some time in the gulf.
Now it sits there rusting.
I feel old.
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The aircraft carrier (on the right, not left) is actually the Stennis, i believe, in dry dock. The shipyard is on the northern side of Sinclair Inlet.
Went out on the USS Ranger back in '69 on Family Day - dad had been with the(then) Admiral at Annapolis - I was 11. Freaking amazing show of power.
Few ys. back visited the Hornet in Alameda - amazing to realize a ship that small launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
Turning your ship into a museum makes you feel kinda old too, like they did mine. USS Midway (CV-41).
Right, correct. Stennis, no. Zoom in, that's 76, the Reagan. Stennis is 74.
Feel old? Me too. I was an electrician at the Philly Navy Yard the last 8 years it was in business and worked on the Indy, the Kitty Hawk and the Constellation. Froze in the Winter and sweated in the Summer to re-build them, now they just sit there.
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