US Navy Ford Class nuclear carriers

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I clicked somewhere on that page

The U.S. Navy's most advanced warship will join the fleet on Saturday

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and this is tough (related to
#2534 Jura, Yesterday at 5:00 PM):

“We’re almost a generation removed from the decision-makers, but now we’re dealing with the effects of those decisions,” he said.
he = Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain and director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security

I mean somebody came up with nonsensical 'concurrent' stuffing of ships with unproven tech, THE MORE OF THEM, THE MORE FANTASTIC SHIP ... and now he's either promoted or retired

" Beginning shortly " we wait anxious right now only music nice but i want see these chick
Navy to Commission New First-In-Class Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford

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I'm not watching..boring..very boring.

Oh by the way pilotonline has US Navy news stories not found elsewhere. They are part of the Virginia Pilot newspaper from the Norfolk VA area...also know as Tidewater.

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As many as 10,000 people are expected to be on hand today at Naval Station Norfolk

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. President Donald Trump will speak at the event.

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Your happy one Burke 10 days ago one other in 7 days and meanwhile the Ford what month !

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quarter past ten neither this nor the official link (navylive dot something) are working, but found one on Facebook, right now the brass arriving:

it's
10:21 Trump was still inside Marine One, now they're showing just the hull, I guess because of security reasons when he'll be out on the deck

LOL the footage shows also here to me

1026 the skipper began to talk

skipper finished around 1034, they're waiting for something (he now said "thank you for your patience"):

will make myself a cup of coffee LOL

Jura said:

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will make myself a cup of coffee LOL

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... brass was coming, heard Don Rumsfeld is there, Dick Cheney, too, I came right for:

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I could deliver a speech to commission a CVN. ...

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would you do the anthem?
the CPO now did:

1055 or so: the Governor of Virginia (don't know him)

around 1100 the Manager from the shipyards is talking, sorry don't like him, no picture LOL

now the CNO:

talked until 10:04

now Mr. Stackley ... there'll be no picture

"Mad Dog" just one minute

1010 Trump starts ...

I'm not his fan, but he's an excellent speaker

around 1022 criticizes the sequester, talks Military budget

1728 commissioned!