This doesn't make ANY sense . They were, " planning " to scuttle the America ? , ... " after a series of Tests ? " SORRY ; don't know what to make of THIS . CONNIE (BKLN.Yard Oct.1961) AND KITTY HAWK (Phila.Yard Camden April`61) are still In-Service . So is ENTERPRISE, and INDEPENDENCE ? Where's FORRESTAL and RANGER ? and a 'host', of other OLDER Flattops 'IN' Commission . AT Sea ? my bullsheat Alarm is gonging . Any VOLUNTEERS to contribute on this One ??__________________________________________________________________________________________ : Speaking of "symbols" - how do you like this one?
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: Retired Carrier Sunk Off Atlantic Coast
: Sat May 21, 9:35 AM ET
: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The retired aircraft carrier USS America
: is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in
: a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.
: The 84,000-ton, 1,048-foot warship that served the Navy for 32
: years rests about 60 miles off the coast and more than
: 6,000 feet down, according to Pat Dolan , a spokeswoman
: for Naval Sea Systems Command.
: She did not give a location, but the Navy previously said the
: explosions would take place off North Carolina.
: Dolan said the America went down May 14, finally flooded after
: the series of explosions over 25 days. No announcement was
: made at the time.
: Dolan did not immediately return a telephone message left
: Friday by The Associated Press.
: No warship this size or larger had ever been sunk, and plans
: to sink the America caused controversy.
: "Not a day goes by that I don't think about it,"
: said Lee McNulty , president of the USS America
: Foundation, which wanted to turn the ship into a museum.
: "Of all the carriers, that one should have been saved,
: just for the name America."
: ....
: Full article at:
: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050521/ap_on_re_us/carrier_sunk
:
: So the CV66, that saved in the Vietnam War, at the 1986
: conflict with Libya, in the first Gulf War, and over
: Bosnia-Herzegovina in the mid-1990s was
: "recycled" the hot way. For "testing"
: explosives. Anyone sees a connection to the recent
: situation on American soil?
: Far Sight 3
:
Pic: An aerial bow view of the conventionally-powered
: aircraft carrier USS America (CV 66). From:
: http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=23736
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