PeterW
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Post by PeterW on May 18, 2010 15:23:10 GMT -5
Ron, you bring to mind an old Irving Berlin song from the 1930s. I think it was in a movie called Follow the Fleet or something similar. Fred Astair sang it  : "We joined the Navy to see the world And what did we see? We saw the sea We saw the Pacific and the Atlantic But the Atlantic isn't romantic And the Pacific isn't what it's cracked up to be We joined the Navy to do or die But we didn't do and we didn't die We were much too busy looking at the ocean and the sky And what did we see? We saw the sea We saw the Atlantic and the Pacific But the Pacific isn't terrific And the Atlantic isn't what it's cracked up to be" |
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Post by John Parry on May 18, 2010 17:06:21 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with a naval base in Idaho Wayne - both Switzerland and the Vatican had merchant fleets, and I have fond memories of our ship's voyages to Tibet...
Regards - John
ps - True about Switzerland and the Vatican !!
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Post by herron on May 18, 2010 21:30:29 GMT -5
Still ... a naval base in Idaho? (at least the Vatican is only a reasonable drive from the sea)  |
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Post by pompiere on May 19, 2010 4:24:07 GMT -5
Peter,
I hadn't heard that song before, but it describes it well. There were some interesting port calls, though.
To let everyone else in on what Wayne and I were discussing, Idaho National Engineering Labs (INEL), is a Department of Energy research site where the Navy had three prototypes for the ships nuclear powerplants. They were essentially full scale functional engine rooms for three different types of ships. Each has a real reactor, steam plant, main engine, and electric generators, all laid out in the same configuration as on a ship. One of them actually looked like the rear half of a submarine in drydock. Adm. Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy, believed that you had to train with the real thing to develop the proper respect for nuclear power, and not just pretend on a simulator. I was assigned to S1W plant, which was the USS Nautilus prototype, the first nuclear sub. It had been highly modified over the years to test various equipment before installing on ships.
Ron
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Post by Randy on May 19, 2010 10:45:46 GMT -5
I know that song Peter, I love the old musicals. ;D
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Post by Rachel on May 20, 2010 4:37:42 GMT -5
Wasn't that song in South Pacific?
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Post by mickeyobe on May 20, 2010 8:56:49 GMT -5
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