Would it be too much to hope for the USS Missouri?

That was the sight of the Japanese surrender for WWII.

It's one of a class that was tremendously effective when active from 1945 through 1973. When reactivated in a post deregulation environment it looked really cool as the lead ship of a surface action group, but the lead ship wound up killing more of its own sailors than the enemy. It use, expense, and lack of efficacy caused tremendous division inside the US Navy. Ultimately it was retired. It is still looked upon fondly by the battleship admirals and armchair warriors, but it has been supplanted in modern naval warfare by air and submarine power.

Yup, the analogy is still good!:D

Bears, bears eat beets. Battlestar Gallactica.

I'd say thats the USS Wisconsin.

But I just saw Sherlock Holmes last night and let me see if there is something deeper going on here. The picture looks modern and so I'd say its Iowa class so either Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa (below) or New Jersey. So are we going to war in WI, MO, IA or NJ?

So maybe NJ? EWR?


http://fotosa.ru/stock_photo/Brand%20X_JI/p_407423.jpg

I knew you would like it. I posted it for you to critique. I agree that the Seawolf class of Submarine. Too bad we only build half of what we were planning on.

So what ship was it? You just described a few of these boats. We spent a lot of money bringing them out of mothballs.

It is the Wisconsin. Just a random picture from my library. :p

Wow! I'm not as a dumb as I look.

-Navy Brat from Norfolk area

Oh oh okay, off to submarines now huh? Well to me, that looks like every other submarine. But lets test all the P-3 guys... :D

And this is the SSN 21--The first of its class. Mighty fine boat! :D

I'd bump my head. I went on the USS Ashville once and that's all I could manage to do.

Too bad. I love subs.

Well I did not know there was a USS Jimmy Carter. Wow. SSN-23. Do they say "The Mighty Jimmy Carter!" ? Sorry, I know he was Navy.


Wisconsin's largest city is MKE.

Do I need a ouija board or something here?