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Title: Aircraft Carrier Stennis Has Biggest Ordnance Onload Since 2010
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Infowars | Zero Hedge
URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/aircraft-ca ... st-ordnance-onload-since-2010/
Published: Jan 27, 2015
Author: Zero Hedge
Post Date: 2015-01-27 16:20:35 by Hondo68
Keywords: fall of Yemen government, Ukraine civil war, death of King Abdullah
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Comments: 15
Nearly two weeks ago, we were surprised to read on the Navy’s website that one of America’s prize aircraft carriers, CVN-74, John C. Stennis (whose crew is perhaps best known for the following awkward incident), as part of an operational training period in preparation for future deployments, just underwent not only its first ordnance onload since 2010, but, according to Senior Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Jason Engleman, G-5 division’s leading chief petty officer, “the biggest ordnance onload we’ve seen.” From the Stennis’ blog: The ship plans to take on two-thirds of its weight capacity during the three day evolution. Bombs, missiles and rounds will be onloaded by 1,400 crane lifts. “The importance of the Indian Island visit is to provide ammunition for the ship’s defense, and assist with training during this underway,” said Lt. Cmdr. Steve Kashuba, Stennis’ ordnance handler officer. … The ordnance onload was an all-hands evolution and included Sailors from AIMD, air, navigation, safety, security, supply and medical departments. Sailors served as watchstanders, safety observers or ordnance handlers to ensure the evolution ran smoothly. Why engage in such a major weapon loading process now? We don’t know, and we certainly won’t until the next deployment of the carrier, currently located in San Diego to receive aircraft and another 2000 sailors, is announced but it does seem coincidental that the same aircraft carrier which the Iranian General Ataollah Salehi warned back in Janiary 2012 “not to return to the Persian Gulf” was being loaded to the gills with weapons ahead of the following three major macro events: i) the sudden and unexpected fall of the US-supported Yemen government; ii) the biggest re-escalation in the Ukraine civil war since the spring of 2014, and iii) the death of the King Abdullah. And who knows what other “unexpected” geopolitical events are about to surprise the world? While we wait the answer, here are some photos of how the Stennis is loading up with six million pounds of ammo: Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Joshua Haynes, from Nashville, Tenn., and Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Joseph Dina, from Naperville, Ill., move BLU-111 500-pound bombs during an ammunition on-load aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Donald Theriot, from New Orleans, verifies ordnance placement during an ammunition on-load aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Matthew Warren takes inventory of BLU-111 500-pound bombs. Aviation Ordnanceman Mariko Armstrong, from Denver, takes inventory of BLU-111 500-pound bombs. Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class David Mele, from San Diego, directs movement of BLU-117 2000-pound bombs. Sailors prepare to move BLU-117 2000-pound bombs CBU-99 cluster bombs are staged during an ammunition on-load aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) BLU-111 500-pound bombs are staged during an ammunition on-load aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Aviation Ordnanceman David Black, from Helena, Ala., Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Dillon Simmons, from Lewistown, Mont., and Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Martin Pena, from Bronx, N.Y., prepare to move AGM-88 missiles Aviation Orndnaceman 3rd Class Garrison Gardner, from Chandler, Ariz., and Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Steven Paxton from Brian, Ohio, prepare to lower a mine kit Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Dillon Simmons, from Lewistown, Mont., and Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Martin Pena, from Bronx, N.Y., guide AGM-88 missiles as they are lowered Source: CVN-74
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Cuz we're gonna give it to those dirty Japs and Krauts! That'll teach them to bomb Pearl Harbor and invade Europe! (This IS 1944, isn't it??...NO??) Maybe this is to keep the *real* Axis of Evil in line: The Tea Party, Gun Owners, and Bible Clingers.
(This IS 1944, isn't it??...NO??) Remember this?
Funny, but I never watched this flick back when...(am now watching...thanks.)
Countdown is mediocre--far better is ''Flight of the Intruder'' (very realistic
air combat scenes with SAMs coming up at the aircraft and low level action)
along with ''Midway''. All I can say is I am so glad I never had to go to sea
and had the world by the balls as a lowly USAF C-5 Flight Engineer--we never
deployed, but flew missions worldwide usually 2 weeks in duration.
#10. To: TEA Party Reveler (#7)
For me, sea duty was the best part of the Navy. I flew helos off of Ranger later in my career, but being a regular surface officer on a frigate before that was the best job I ever had. I never should have left the Surface Line to go be a pilot. I should have stayed put, on smaller ships, and kept requesting sea duty. I truly love being at sea. I love the feel of it, the smell of it. I love the routine of the ship, the bells and evolutions, how it all works as one great organism. I particularly loved the Midwatch, up on the bridge wing in warm seas, driving the ship through the ocean, with the only people awake the handful on the bridge with me, or down in the engine room. The single best moment of my life was standing on the bridge wing about 2 AM somewhere deep in the South Pacific. The ocean was very still, so still that the stars and moon were reflecting off it. And there were a lot of stars. There was no wind, but the ship made it own warm breeze. The Southern Cross was blazing away up there, strange stars to Northern eyes, but very beautiful and bold. The water was full of bioluminescence - jellyfish glowing eerily in the dark, the bow cutting a glowing wake through the glassy sea. There was not another ship anywhere in sight to any horizon, nor a plane in the sky. There were only three other people on the bridge - the helmsman, the lookout and the Conning Officer (and he was over on the other bridge wing). So I was all alone with my thoughts, the warm wind blowing on my face. Deep, a pod of whales swam across our path, leaving ghostly glowing blue streaks through the water as they passed. It was...perfect. I knew it was perfect. And I thought: I have never in my whole life felt as good as I do right now. I never have since, either. I thought of a line of poetry, and my mind still goes back to it, and to that night, when I go down the road here to the beach to hear the gulls cry: "I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and sky. And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by..." - Sea Fever But I never go to sea anymore. That was the job of my youth, a job I was foolish to leave for "better things" that really were not better at all. I should have stayed at sea. "I sometimes think in all this world the saddest thing to be: old admirals who feel the wind, but never put to sea." - Al Stewart
One of the best. I still enjoy watching it.
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#4. To: Liberator (#1)
Cuz we're gonna give it to those dirty Japs and Krauts! That'll teach them to bomb Pearl Harbor and invade Europe!
#6. To: CZ82 (#4)
#7. To: Liberator (#6)
Replies to Comment # 7. All I can say is I am so glad I never had to go to sea
#13. To: TEA Party Reveler (#7)
along with ''Midway''
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