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  1. The US navy recently commissioned its first environmentally friendly, non polluting, 100% recyclable escort ship.

  2. Why do I have the feeling that gun ports on the side of the ITS Amerigo Vespucci facing the USS George H.W. Bush are filled with bare Italian butts?

    1. Except it’s not the US Navy. The USS Constitution is a frigate and has always been painted with only 1 stripe. Ltdavel identified this ship as the Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci, and Wikipedia even identifies when it sailed by with the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) so this picture could be taken – 2022.

      The ITS Amerigo Vespucci is a steel-hulled copy of a 74-gun ship of the line, and is painted with 2 white stripes for the two gun decks. Aside from the stripes, gunports, and size, the two ships do look quite a lot alike – the only other difference I could spot is that the Vespucci’s bow sprit is shorter proportionally to the hull.

      And that it’s making a wake without a sail. The Vespucci was built in the 1920’s and has an auxiliary engine capable of 11 knots, while the USS Constitution was built in 1797 when the only auxiliary power was oars.

    1. In today’s Navy, they’ve probably already surrendered and the galleon’s taking a victory lap.

  3. Maybe we should have been more specific when we requested the best trained crew in the Italian Navy for our Med War game exercises Admiral

  4. from the press-release:
    * “Welcome to USS George H.W. Bush (CVN) 77…flagship of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group. We are “Freedom at Work.””
    Sadly, because of ‘pandemic’ requirements, routine maintenance overruns required approximately thirty months and 1.1 million hours of dry-dock… at a required cost to tax-payers of nearly triple the required purchase price of ‘Freedom At Work’.
    [smiles broadly!]
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    In other news:
    * Another carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, was due to enter service in 2017, but remains out-of-service because of ‘challenges’… while ‘undergoing required maintenance’.
    [chuckles enthusiastically!]
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    The American military!, stuck in 1938 while prepping for the Great War of 1914!
    [laughs uproariously!]

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