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(...) Ugh, that means you were in Corpus Christi. I'm sorry. :P (...) Eh, I was under the impression it was more for moving pilots to the flight deck in a timely fashion... (...) I toured the Lex with my father, who served aboard two carriers of the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I didn't know that CV-16 was still afloat! It was converted along with the other Essex-class carriers still in service in the 1950s to have the angled flight deck, and redeployed as ASW ships in the late 1950s. I think they were redesignated (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Oh, don't worry, it's not. It's firmly cemented in place. I assure you, it does no "floating". :D eric (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Don't be! ;^0 I enjoy Corpus! (...) I confess that I made an assumption that the escalator would be for the command because, if I remember correctly, the escalator was reached almost immediately after leaving the war room (which was in turn (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Masochist. (...) Ah. I think the "war room" you're referring to is the pilot's briefing room, isn't it? And the other end of the escalator lets out onto the flight deck? I'm genuinely asking, here... it has been a bit longer since I've been on (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Doh! I walked right into that one. (...) You're no doubt right that it was the pilot briefing room...as uneducated Joe Tourist, it just didn't strike me as a pilot briefing room. I guess I've seen too many movies, but there wasn't the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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