USN Drinks Portsmouth Dry.

[Az]

You've stopped in Haifa?

It's a shame you're out of the military now.

"Drunk USN 'poly meet".

[The Mad Monk]

Diss, what drove a desert dweller such as yourself into the sea?

[*End Is Forever*]

Typical Americans... too thick to realise they'd get drunk quicker and cheaper on tap ale...

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Dissident
I can't believe a carrier went up there though.

I'm so pissed. The navy sucked so bad in the Clinton years. We never went anywhere far from our mission path. I have never been to a port of call outside of the mediterranean and the middle east. The navy seems so much better today.

That's cause Clinton only gave the USN a maintenance budget for 8 carrier groups when we had 11...

As a result, our 3 conventional carriers are in the crapper.

[Az]

conventional carriers? why do you need those?

"Oh no, sir, we cannot ruthlessly dominate the world with only 8 nuke Carriers, we need more carriers, just to cover the corners, and the small spots".

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Azazel
conventional carriers? why do you need those?

"Oh no, sir, we cannot ruthlessly dominate the world with only 8 nuke Carriers, we need more carriers, just to cover the corners, and the small spots".

Those Carriers were built before the Nimitz program.

[axi]

Aren't those carriers used in East Asia, because Japan doesn't want any nuclear vessels sailing around it's waters?

Or so I've heard.

[ThePantaloonDog]

AMericans stick with Bud because its always mediocre at best and its what they know. I've been to a couple of British pubs and it was generally a crap shoot with British beer. Simply because I didn't know what sucked and what didn't.

[Dis]

well I like Newcastle. Considering it is imported from there, I have to figure they have it over there . In fact I've been drinking almost as much newcastle brown ale as samual adams lately

And yes I was in a land locked state- I just had a thing for ships since I was a kid. Had to try it out. No problem for me. I have a strong stomach and never got sick. Although I was on a carrier. Those don't move much. The hurricane we skirted around moved it quite a bit though. And I was also on a small helicopter carrier (much smaller than the modern LHA's), that wasn't too bad though.

And yes I do believe Japan doesn't like nukes (no pun intended) near their land. So we have always had conventionals station up there. The Kennedy is stationed in Jacksonville, Florida. It was supposed to be a reserve ship or something- but they still go on deployments. And I think the other conventional is in San Diego.

12 carriers did seem excessive in the 90's when I was in. We never did anything and never got in any major wars. but after afghanistan and Iraq, I think they have proved their worth.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by axi
Aren't those carriers used in East Asia, because Japan doesn't want any nuclear vessels sailing around it's waters?

That's Australia and New Zealand.

The US operates the Kittyhawk out of its Japanese base.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


That's Australia and New Zealand.

The US operates the Kittyhawk out of its Japanese base.

I saw the Conie T pull into to San Diego day one back in late 62 or early 63. I was on Guard duty at Gate 9A, on Harbor blvd at US Naval Training Center.
The Kittyhawk did an operation with us in Taiwan back in Jan, and Feb. 64. The other carrier was the Hornet.

[TheStinger]

I'm not impressed.

During Euro 96 the Dannish football fans drank sheffield dry of ALL beer, now thats drinking.(for non brits Sheffield is a big northern city pop- aprox750000)

[Worthingtons]

Sheffield hasnt got that many people living there, try shaving a couple of hundred thou of that figure. But nevertheless it's quite big tho.

I agree with the person who said we would have no reason to stock large quantities of bud. Euro 96 i dont remember, but i blame it on the Wednesday fans, they have to turn to something.

[TheStinger]

The population probably included Rotherham anyway its not a little village.

The danish fans came wioth their viking helmets sat round drinking got completley pissed sang songs and casued no trouble.

Marvelous

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by axi
Aren't those carriers used in East Asia, because Japan doesn't want any nuclear vessels sailing around it's waters?

Or so I've heard.

You are correct, currently some fastpaced negotian is going on to get permission to stage a CVN out of Japan.

If that fails, we may have to come up with a few new choices. Top on the list is Singapore, which has built a Carrier-capable pier for our usewhen we pass through. I've also heard talk of building entirely new facilities on Guam, since we're also starting to station SSNs outta there.