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She is based down here and is a sight when you go past on the St John's. Not for much longer though. She comes back here after Boston for decommissioning, after which she is being towed to Philly to be put into mothballs. It seems they have to spend six months working on her everytime she was out at sea for three!
Looks like they are going to upgrade Mayport to handle nuclear carriers and one will be coming this way soon.
Thanks for posting those pics. I was up in Boston this weekend for my daughter's hockey tournament and would have loved to have seen the ship. A number of her crew were staying at our hotel and told of people being turned away, so many came out to visit. It was cool seeing her our at the pier from down at Quincy market.
When the JFK first arrived in Jacksonville, I went and took the tour. We were with a group of blue hairs and one of the sailors took just my buddy and I and showed us around. Went up on the flight deck and he was telling us that they had just come down from Norfolk. I mentioned that he must be mistaken because Hurricane Hugo had just passed Jacksonville east of us and hit South Carolina. He said he was correct that they skirted that hurricane and waves were coming over the flight deck. He said it was interesting walking on the walls as the ship rolled in the seas.
Very cool. My dad took us to see the USS Forrestal about 16 or 17 years ago when she came to New Orleans. Its unbeleivable just how darned big those things are.
You should here the the liberal radio stations b%tching about the oil slick it's leaving up here
I think that would do more good if they did the same as the big O up here around the dump or fingers south of the vinyard
You should here the the liberal radio stations b%tching about the oil slick it's leaving up here
I think that would do more good if they did the same as the big O up here around the dump or fingers south of the vinyard
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The JFK was commissioned 2 months before I left the Navy, and now she's being decommissioned. Talk about feeling old! I served in a Phantom squadron aboard Forrestal 1966-1968. Yea, they're big ships, and mighty impressive, but what would really impress you is being on the flight deck during air opps. I was an ordnanceman and armed the Phantoms when their were brought up to the cat. Nothing like being in the catwalk along side a Phantom as she's being launched in full afterburner., and at night, whatta show! Dangerous friggen place though, the flight deck. While I was aboard in the late 60's, for flight deck duty, you received hazardous duty pay of $75 a month and combat pay was $55 a month. Go figure?
Visit to "BIG JOHN" 
