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Timothy

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RIP USS Forest Fire!
« on: February 04, 2014, 03:26:38 PM »
The USS Forrestal is finally getting scrapped for a penny...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/04/navy-first-supercarrier-makes-final-trip-to-texas-scrapyard/?intcmp=features

Fare winds and following seas, Old Girl!
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Re: RIP USS Forest Fire!
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2014, 04:32:02 PM »
Our nickname for her was the USS Zippo.  She still had fires almost on a weekly basis.  I was never stationed aboard, but I crossed her deck many times in transit.
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Re: RIP USS Forest Fire!
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2014, 04:55:41 PM »


Sad day for the Navy...134 Sailors lost that day...  July 29, 1967.
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Re: RIP USS Forest Fire!
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2014, 07:24:35 PM »
I spent a short stint on her sister ship the Saratoga.  Unfortunately, attempts to turn her into a museum have failed so she'll have the same fate soon.
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Re: RIP USS Forest Fire!
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2014, 02:30:27 PM »
I was on the Saratoga for 15 minutes waiting to change "liberty boats" .
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Re: RIP USS Forest Fire!
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