Visits to Naval Bases (pictures from those visits)

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

sumdud said:

Kitty Hawk is conventionally powered.... That's a lot of maintenance by itself. Why did the USN choose to park the Kitty Hawk there, instead of a CVN? (The Japanese are still scared of the bomb eh?)

CVN-77 will be called George Bush????!!!!!!!!!!!!! :steaming: You have to be kidding.......

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well, it's the first Bush.... so it's not as bad as George W. bush......
besides i dont think they can name a carrier after a president if he's still in power... unless he's done something spetacular

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

There's some concerns with more nations or cities imposing bans on nuclear-powered ships. For an example, New Zealand has imposed a ban on nulcear-powered ships within its territorial waters since 1985, and the Australian city of Sydney ban nuclear-powered ships from visiting.

Palau, Fiji, and Vanuatu have declared nuclear-free status, though Fiji has permitted US nuclear-powered submarines within its territorial waters since 1983. Palau has a constitutional-ban on the storage, testing, or transit of nuclear or chemcial weaponery through its land or ocean territory since 1979. This means, it's illegal for any nation's SSBN's to enter Palau's territorial waters.

Although the USN has had an excellent service record with its nuclear-powered ships, today we have to worry about more than just accidents with crazy al-Qaida suicide bombers (see: USS Cole & attempt on USS The Sullivans).

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

Sumdud ..the Japanese do not want nuclear powered ships homeported in Japan. This has been a long standing rule the Japanese have. They do allow nuclear powered ships port visits.

CVN-77 will be named USS George H.W. Bush CVN-77. Named after the first Pres Bush. Here's a link.



As for naming carriers. I don't think carriers should be named after politicans. Even presidents. Carriers should still be named after famous battles,historic sites and famous ships,.. such as Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Bull Run, Trenton, Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Midway, Coral Sea, Yankee Station..I could go on forever..but I won't. Sore subject with me.

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

Why would the Japanese oppose nuclear powered carriers? I thought they were safe.

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BroSnake wants to know..""Why would the Japanese oppose nuclear powered carriers? I thought they were safe.""

Nuke powerd CVN are very safe. but it's simple..the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan to end WW 2. Thus creating a Japanese aversion to nuclear power in any form. You know the JMSDF has no nuke subs?? I think..i'm not sure.. that the Japanese consitution forbids nuclear power in anyform.

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

bd popeye said:

BroSnake wants to know..""Why would the Japanese oppose nuclear powered carriers? I thought they were safe.""

Nuke powerd CVN are very safe. but it's simple..the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan to end WW 2. Thus creating a Japanese aversion to nuclear power in any form. You know the JMSDF has no nuke subs?? I think..i'm not sure.. that the Japanese consitution forbids nuclear power in anyform.

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they use nuclear power, to power their country

As of July 2003, the 52 commercial nuclear reactors in operation had a total electric power generation capacity of 45.74 million kilowatts and supplied about one-third of the country's electricity. An additional four reactors were under construction and eight were in a preliminary stage of planning prior to the start of construction. Private electric power companies own and operate all the nuclear reactors. Efforts to build new nuclear power plants have been greatly complicated by the fact that the public's confidence in the safety of nuclear energy has been greatly shaken by a series of nuclear-power-related accidents in Japan since the mid-1990s.

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Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

Anyways, is the CVN-77 going to replace the JFK or Kittyhawk?

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xcswimmer thank you for enlightning me on nuclear power in Japan. You are always on top of the game! It makes me think that the Japanese aversion to nuke ships is just going to be a barganning tool in the future. Let's wait and see.

Anyways, is the CVN-77 going to replace the JFK or Kittyhawk?

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Who knows? The JFK is in limbo right now because eairler this year the USN wanted to retire the JFK. But some congressmen from Florida & Virginia put at least a 1 years stop to that. Here's the story.



As for the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 it is scheduled to be retired in 2008. Got to wait and see.

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

But what did Bush do that was spetacular? Enough to get a shipe named after him so quickly?

I'll take popeye's words, though. Ships should be named after battles, to better allow people to know history. Or cities, since these ships are so big and complex, they truly are floating cities (boomtowns ).

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Well Bush did lead the war to Iraq....... They should of done it like how the PLAN does it, no people... maybe PLAN carrier will be name Mao Zedong... but i think it will be Beijing or Shanghai....