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  1. 09-02-2005, 03:00 PM #14
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    I think there on only 2 hospital ships, one for each coast and I would bet one of them is in the Persian gulf right now
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  2. 09-03-2005, 01:08 AM #15
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    Originally posted by jeffcdntech
    all i can picture now that i have seen that carrier is when they evacuated vietnam and they were tossing helicopters off the flat tops to make room for all those people trying to escape.

    desperate situation but where the hell are all the damned hospital ships?!
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  3. 09-03-2005, 01:53 AM #16
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    If I wasn't so fat and old I'd be in the fireroom

    This was back in the 70's. No gas turbines, no air-conditioned control rooms, PURE SNIPES!!!!!!
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  4. 09-03-2005, 09:09 AM #17
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    those boys will git the job done!!too bad Harry himself isnt here to run the darn job,,,,
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  5. 09-03-2005, 09:35 AM #18
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    What a great picture of an awesome ship! How great is that to be heading down there to help. I didn't know it housed so much.
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  6. 09-03-2005, 10:09 AM #19
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    it might be riding high with the air wing still at Oceana and the lower decks clear to help.to bad they couldn't have cleared an interstate or major road around N.O. and slipsteamed some cargo(water,mres)in with C-130s.those silver parachuted cylinders with all those staples within like in Empire of the Sun...that Speilberg movie did. http://www.ncts.navy.mil/homepages/cvn75/

    [Edited by maxster on 09-03-2005 at 10:13 AM]
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    Originally posted by square2round
    What a great picture of an awesome ship!
    It was just a repair ship. That's a DFT behind me.
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  8. 09-05-2005, 06:10 PM #21
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    Thumbs up 400,000 gallons daily

    Truman suppling water stationed off Biloxi,Mississippi http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=19910..........IWO JIMA and BATAAN also on station http://www.navy.mil/

    [Edited by maxster on 09-05-2005 at 06:29 PM]
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  9. 09-05-2005, 06:40 PM #22
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    Thumbs up Great story

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  10. 09-05-2005, 08:58 PM #23
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    where in the sam hill is norfork? wouldn't be norfolk,va.?,eh?
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  11. 09-05-2005, 10:05 PM #24
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    Originally posted by joeoilman
    where in the sam hill is norfork? wouldn't be norfolk,va.?,eh?
    It's pronounced Nawfuc. I spent 4 years in the hampton roads. Norfork is located in Arkansas
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  12. 09-06-2005, 12:12 AM #25
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    Re: 400,000 gallons daily

    Originally posted by maxster
    Truman suppling water stationed off Biloxi,Mississippi http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=19910..........IWO JIMA and BATAAN also on station http://www.navy.mil/

    [Edited by maxster on 09-05-2005 at 06:29 PM]
    Good ol' Navy evaps at work!

    Way to go, Truman snipes!
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  13. 09-06-2005, 07:27 AM #26
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    Originally posted by sarge
    I think there on only 2 hospital ships, one for each coast and I would bet one of them is in the Persian gulf right now
    They are known as the "Mercy" and the "Comfort"
    Both are converted supertankers.
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