I see from the news so take that for what it's worth, that USS Nimitz is now operating in the Caribbean which, you must admit, is a strange place to find an aircraft carrier based out of Bremerton, Washington on the very point of a dignified retirement. I know, she is underway to her final homeport for decommissioning but it still seems odd to send a nuclear ship all the way around South America to commence its final act. Those who have read the Fighting Words to the top right know my connection with the ship but I liked this picture:
and I never saw this one until now:
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| Catherine Nimitz Lay christened Nimitz on 13 May 1972. |
She was the very first person outside the family that I worked for. I slaved away all through 7th grade as one of the assistant librarians at Thomson Junior High School in Newport, RI where she was the Head Librarian. She was a fascinating lady.
As the war got out of control and more and more wounded soldiers returned to the States I read about the 'disgraceful' conditions at Walter Reed Hospital and winced because I knew from one of my officers that closed down NAS Alameda and Treasure Island that the immediate effect of appearing on the BRAC list was deterioration of the buildings and infrastructure because nobody would approve contracts to spend money on 'dead' facilities. It was a shambles.
One can only hope that this is not how the delayed decommissioning has affected USS Nimitz. Getting jerked around like that at the end of service life is bound to have been a major pain in the ass. I saw that with the MSOs, an LST and the poor Destroyers. Bean counters are never kind but they are positively vicious at the end.
Good luck and Good Night Cuba.
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As the Ford is out for at least a year from "laundry room fires" and misc. system failures they needed to keep the old to be retired Nimitz in service.
Cuba would be a nice distraction from the Iran situation. Seems Aliens didn't create much stir.
Rumors that Cuba has a decent amount of drones now maybe the "discombulator" aka CIA suitcases of 100 dollar bills will be useful.
Anything that gets us out of the Epstein war would be great.
My first ship, CV 67, was scrapped a couple of years ago. My second, CV 59, met a like end longer ago. Maybe CV 69 has a different destiny. The loss to an enemy of a carrier, even one at (perhaps past) the end of its service life, would sure allow the State to gin up some exciting patriotic slogans, wouldn't it?
Not that our government would ever allow something like that to occur.
-Tennessee Budd
"Exciting patriotic slogans"
Remember the Maine, Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq has weapons of mass destruction as we wave a tiny tube of white powder in the UN.
Those that never put themselves nor their kids into war's dangers are so warlike (not referring to you Tenn, you're not a AIPAC bought senator). It's good business I hear.
Sort of like the massive bets on the price of oil just before each Trump media blast. Almost like they KNOW when and WHAT He's going to say. Just lucky folks (over and over lucky).
A false flag will occur if needed to keep us fighting Bibi's war or distract us from other disasters. Pity is the thousands of sailors (and their families) on the ship so sacrificed for it.
I was talking about this last night. All of Trump's assets are in a blind trust but have you considered that there is one man in Washington who exists in a permanent state of, EVERYBODY WHO KNOWS ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT HIM KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE WILL DO IN ANY GIVEN SITUATION? Trump doesn't pretend to be anything but what he is and always has been and thus some people would say he is utterly predictable. I would.
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