http://www.metafilter.com/tags/USN/rss tag posts with USN Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:25:20 -0800 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:25:20 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/55807/Battle-off-Samar On 14 April 1988, the missile frigate <a href="http://navysite.de/ffg/FFG58.HTM">Samuel B. Roberts</a> was damaged by a mine in the Persian Gulf. Some 45 years before, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_B._Roberts">Coxswain Samuel B. Roberts</a> was killed when he guided his boat in front of Japanese lines on Guadalcanal in an effort to distract their fire from a rescue party evacuating wounded marines. In between was the destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts, which on 25 October 1944 sailed into history in the <a href="http://www.bosamar.com/">Battle off Samar</a>. (Long post inside for history buffs.) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.55807 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:25:20 -0800 WWII samar leytegulf USN forrest http://www.metafilter.com/55721/Goodbye-Big-John When is <a href="http://navysite.de/cvn/cv67.htm">an aircraft carrier</a> no longer <a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/cv-67.htm">an aircraft carrier</a>? <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cv-67.htm ">When its flight decks have been decertified by the Navy</a> for the unsafe condition of arresting gear and other equipment, <a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/military/news-article.aspx?storyid=65953">and it can no longer conduct flight operations</a>. One of the two remaining conventionally powered carriers on "active duty" in the U.S. Navy, "Big John" (CV-67) aka The John F. Kennedy sits ignobly at dock in Mayport, Florida, unfit for anything more than basic seamanship training, and <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL32731.pdf">waiting for decommissioning</a>. <small>August 2006 decommissioning recommendation to Congress. 24 page PDF file</small> [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.55721 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:35:34 -0800 USN Navy CV-63 rustbucket hardluck mybackyard paulsc