Semper Fi!!!

I will post the other pictures of this ship, the USS NEW YORK

7. Author: cigarman692900 Date: 08/11/2008 08:22 PM Reply

That is an anomoly on the side of the ship, NOT the number 17

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Better get your eyes checked then. It's a stock publicity photo of the San Antonio.

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I will post the other pictures of this ship, the USS NEW YORK

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THIS ship isn't the New York.

PS: The other photos are christening photos, from 5 months ago. We've seen them already. The ship hasn't even been commissioned yet.

3. Author: eminnj1971 Date: 08/11/2008 12:26 PM Reply

The new Marine Corps taxi!!!

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(whispering: It's "Gator Freighter")

Looks around, hoping no Marines read that...

As I said, I'm a "jack of all trades, master of none" unlike others here.

Don't take it so hard, you have at least two former Navy personel posting in this thread.

One of us is busting your balls.

The USS San Antonio LPD-17.....PURE TEXAS PRIDE.

Ron

That is an anomoly on the side of the ship, NOT the number 17

I will post the other pictures of this ship, the USS NEW YORK

Dude...that is no anomoly...this particular photo is ACTUALLY of LPD 17 USS San Antonio. Taken during its Acceptance Trials about 20 miles south of Pascagoula MS.(I should know as I helped build 17)

It amazes me how common sense gets misplaced on so many of these chain emails (even mine gets lost some times) you have an email series of pics that clearly show LPD 21 being christened (at which point a ship is not even under its own power) and then you see a completed ship being proclaimed as the same ship when clearly it isn't(hull # different & commemerative crest gone)

Cool!