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Hmm... "Your" girl, not "Our" girl or "Philly's" girl? I'll have to discuss this with Richard Alfred L.
Wow...such paternal feelings.
Didn't know you felt that strongly about her.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Wow...such paternal feelings.
Didn't know you felt that strongly about her.
You should have heard all the "old salts" when they pulled her from the yard in 1980s. You would have thought the fineist looking strippers had just appeared with a free truck load of beer wanting to party. What a day to remember that was. Awake again for the first time in many moons.
The interesting thing is the Iowa class was more like the battlecruiser in concept than it was a battleship. They had tremendous speed, used to chase down other ships and to protect the fast carriers. They could outrun any potential threat they couldn't deal with, like the Yamato class. They could kill any battlecruiser willing to fight. They would utterly destroy any cruiser squadron.
I guess the Iowa class was more like the ultimate super battlecruiser than the old ship of the line battlewagons. Although they could kill just about any of those old school battlewagons in a stand up fight. Jack Fisher would be proud.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
Ok "OUR" girl. Shes a big lady plenty to share. Actually I'd like to corner Mr. L onboard and "chew his ear" for awhile.
Actually ALL of the Iowa's are my "Babies". They were then and still are. Still working on my report of the 3 day inspection I did of the Iowa last month. But trying to attend to my wife in a leg cast that she cannot walk on is taking up time and thought. Writer's cramp I guess. I have the materiel condition report done but I still have to do the museum conversion report (suggestions).
Good thing I had some of my old team with me to do most of the climbing. For some reason those ladders get steeper as they get older.
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