This seems like something that’s likely to lead to too many 
questions 
to which I want no answers. Best to stay away from this 
. Don’t want to open this 
of 
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calm.
Randy widows supercharged by grief. It’s unconscionable. 
Yet no one has made the obligatory “horny toad” reference? Such curious creatures these humans be.
Never occurred to me. I’m too high brow.
Navy Man prob’ly has it locked and loaded.
My old Yacht coming for the frog >>> Locked and loaded. 
My yacht for 5 long years.
Some Audio from the good old days. Counter battery means they are shooting back.
The ranges are in yards.
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Looks like it cuts through the water pretty nice. 
What’s the background ‘ringing’ or ‘whine’ behind the convo?
The forced draft air blowers that feed air into the ships boilers under the area of the forward smoke stack. The room for firing the guns is just above and a little forward of the forward boiler room. The guys talking are located in a room just forward of the front radar, talking to the guys in the firing room and the gun mount crews.
The range on those guns is only 10 miles but the 55 pound projectile makes it to a target at 10 miles in 64.4 seconds, approx 559 MPH. The closer your are the faster your package arrives.
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Is there ever a situation where a ship would head straight into fire at full speed guns blazing like Butch & Sundance did beyond the still frame at the end of that film?
Delivering the package ever faster so to say…
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Head-on makes you the smallest target.
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The picture on the YouTube video is old. The gun mount on the rear of the ship was removed since that photo was taken. One night close off the coast of North Vietnam we had four fast coastal ships attacking us from the rear, since we had no gun mount on the rear the captain rang up flank speed, did a quick U turn headed straight at the attackers and started firing both forward mounts, 4 barrels at the same time. We sank all four in a couple of minutes.We only sustained minor damage.
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What percentage of the crew has the captain’s awareness of what’s happening in a situation like that, just a few, with the rest doing their job and hanging on for dear life?
I had a good time asking questions of the old salt ‘docents’ when we visited the carrier museum moored in San Diego. They had a generally contemptuous view of the tourists trouping around, I’d say, but came to life with questions posed. The planes on deck were pretty clearly designed to look ‘animally muscular’, very impressive, close up. We climbed up through close quarters to the (place where the steering wheel is) and that was an interesting perspective, I was blase’ about going when suggested but sure glad I did in the end.
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I spent 3 years on that carrier, U.S.S. Midway CV-41
And to answer your question on the other post we were all at our Battle Stations so everyone knew what was going on.
Here are some brass powder casing from the guns, they were great for my barter/trading business with brass buyers and local bar owners.
Down in the bowels somewhere they had a little monument to the guys who worked far below decks(?) They often sacrificing various bits of their bodies (or more) as they wrestled the heavy machinery driving the thing through battle.
Also impressive is I think it took eight days to build the whole boat (just one more day than God/Creation!) and there was a bronx cheer from the salts at the regulatory bureaucracy that prevents feats like that these days…
That would be me. Midway had 12 Boiler rooms, 4 engine rooms and 8 generator rooms.
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What did you think of this?
https://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/full_episodes.htm
Haven’t seen it since it first came out in 2008 or so, but I enjoyed it. There was another one about the building of a skyscraper in NYC that was fascinating, too. Coordinating big physical projects. 
Happy 4th 
Navy Man 
Stories like this is what gives me chills. I served I the army for only single year (far away from North America) and never during any combat situation.
Even though I am Canadian now, I salute you and thank you for your service!
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Do you hear a kinship of spirited play in these?
The first is the sporting ‘fight song’ of the US Naval Academy (and the unofficial march song of the US Navy.) The second is the Rocky & Bullwinkle Theme.
They both seem inspired to me.