Harry Krause wrote:


I hope your son returns to you safe and sound.


Thanks and thanks to all the others with well wishes.

I am confident he will. The biggest risk on a carrier is not paying
attention to what's going on around you.

The guys really at risk are those Marines and Army troops doing battle
house to house.

Eisboch

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Don't think so. The Truman was commissioned in 1998. It was followed by
the USS Ronald Reagan and Congress has recently approved the building of
the USS George H.W. Bush. All are nuclear powered Nimitz class carriers.

My son-in-law spent 3 of his 4 years in the Navy stationed on the USS
Saipan. As you pointed out it is a smaller, conventionally powered
carrier for Marine helicopters and Harrier jets that can launch and land
vertically.

Eisboch

Must have been the Teddy Roosevelt. The nukes anchor out in the 'stream'
rather than tie up as the Coral Sea, Intrepid, Wasp, Essex etc..did for
years. Every summer it was a hilight to see the carriers come in. I grew up
about two city blocks from pier 20-21 where the early ones docked. That pier
is now used by the cruise liners...including the new Queen Mary 2.

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:32:09 +0000, Don White wrote:


Must have been the Teddy Roosevelt. The nukes anchor out in the 'stream'
rather than tie up as the Coral Sea, Intrepid, Wasp, Essex etc..did for
years. Every summer it was a hilight to see the carriers come in. I grew
up about two city blocks from pier 20-21 where the early ones docked. That
pier is now used by the cruise liners...including the new Queen Mary 2.

Halifax? It might not have been the first, but the Truman did visit.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/...ru-halifax.jpg

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:32:09 +0000, Don White wrote:


Must have been the Teddy Roosevelt. The nukes anchor out in the
'stream'
rather than tie up as the Coral Sea, Intrepid, Wasp, Essex etc..did
for
years. Every summer it was a hilight to see the carriers come in. I
grew
up about two city blocks from pier 20-21 where the early ones docked.
That
pier is now used by the cruise liners...including the new Queen Mary 2.

Halifax? It might not have been the first, but the Truman did visit.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/...ru-halifax.jpg

Thanks Thunder. That's a great picture.

Nice pics. Please extend my thanks to your son for serving. You indeed
have a right to be proud.


"Eisboch" wrote in message
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I recently got some officially released US Navy photos.

The first is our younger son John manning the rail as the USS Harry S
Truman got underway from Norfolk Oct 13th for a six month deployment.

John is a newlywed and his bride was one of the hundreds on the pier
seeing the ship off. (Note the shiny new wedding band)

I think the picture says it all.

The second is an impressive shot of the Carrier in transit.

The pics may be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/4uujj


Eisboch

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:
Doug Kanter wrote:

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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I recently got some officially released US Navy photos.

The first is our younger son John manning the rail as the USS Harry S
Truman got underway from Norfolk Oct 13th for a six month deployment.

John is a newlywed and his bride was one of the hundreds on the pier
seeing the ship off. (Note the shiny new wedding band)

I think the picture says it all.

The second is an impressive shot of the Carrier in transit.

The pics may be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/4uujj


Eisboch

That's nothin'. I have two of those boats, "Lobsta 1" and Lobsta 2". I
just
don't use 'em that much. :-)

Just kidding! Nice pics!




On the ship itself, is it Harry S Truman or Harry S. Truman? The first
is correct, the second is not.


The first is correct. I read a biography on Truman and he never used a
period after "S".

Eisboch

My mother won a contest in about 1951 by knowing that Harry S did not have a
middle name. One of those items that stick with you the rest of your life.
As to manning the rail. Friend was an enlisted man on a carrier in the
50's. He said a great incentive to not be a sailor, but to be an officer
was the show the enlisted had to put on by standing on the deck as you
arrived in port. And arriving in San Francisco caused you to almost freeze
to death.

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:32:09 +0000, Don White wrote:


Must have been the Teddy Roosevelt. The nukes anchor out in the
'stream'
rather than tie up as the Coral Sea, Intrepid, Wasp, Essex etc..did
for
years. Every summer it was a hilight to see the carriers come in. I
grew
up about two city blocks from pier 20-21 where the early ones docked.
That
pier is now used by the cruise liners...including the new Queen Mary 2.

Halifax? It might not have been the first, but the Truman did visit.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/...ru-halifax.jpg

...and the John C Stennis..

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:21:24 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:


Stennis, anyone?

Cornelius.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts...?index=S000852

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:39:18 -0500, Eisboch wrote:

I recently got some officially released US Navy photos.

The first is our younger son John manning the rail as the USS Harry S
Truman got underway from Norfolk Oct 13th for a six month deployment.

John is a newlywed and his bride was one of the hundreds on the pier
seeing the ship off. (Note the shiny new wedding band)

I think the picture says it all.

The second is an impressive shot of the Carrier in transit.

The pics may be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/4uujj


Eisboch

Great pics. You've good reason to be proud. Best wishes for your son
and his bride. His being away for so long will be rough on her.
Hopefully she'll take advantage of the support offered by the Navy
families and, I'm sure, by her husband's family.


John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Don White" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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I recently got some officially released US Navy photos.

The first is our younger son John manning the rail as the USS Harry S
Truman got underway from Norfolk Oct 13th for a six month deployment.

John is a newlywed and his bride was one of the hundreds on the pier
seeing the ship off. (Note the shiny new wedding band)

I think the picture says it all.

The second is an impressive shot of the Carrier in transit.


I believe the Trueman was the first nuke powered carrier to visit my home

Truman

port. This was just after the first Gulf War and the papers said it
delivered the most ordinance of any ship over there. The Eisenhauer and

Eisenhower

Lincoln came after that but the new troubles have kept all away since. We
did get a visit from the Salpan (small carrier)and it's escorts a couple
of

Saipan. And its an LHA not a carrier.

weeks ago.