[Milsurplus] CLASSIFIED: U-2 Cockpit Photo!

[Gregory W. Moore]

Dave, Joe, and Milsurplus people--

Truer words were never spoken about what happened during the 8 years of 
the "Hitlery and Bubba show".
    In 1996, the USS America, (CV/CVA-66) was decommissioned, and left 
to rot at
the remains of the old Philadelphia Navy Yard. Those of us who served 
aboard her, anytime thru her long and distinguished career, and 
especially those who served on her during her Vietnam deployments, have 
formed a Museum Foundation to obtain the ship, and restore her as a 
museum and attraction.
    Ok, Yes, I have a personal stake in this, I am Preservations Officer 
for the USS America Museum Foundation, and (naturally) have a desire to 
restore her comm and electronic spaces as well as possible, so people 
can SEE what comms were like and are like (From M28's to Computer 
Displays). Opnote: Would you have expected anything else?? --hi--
    Personally, I feel that this was a direct act by the Xlintoon 
Dynasty to eliminate anything that held the name of this honorable 
Republic, and also to leave the JFK (CV/CVA-67) to be a museum ship when 
she is decomissioned. The Chappaquidick Submariner would probably like 
nothing better.
    All here can help.
    Go to the web site
http://ussamerica-museumfoundation.org   for the Museum Foundation

The museum website has a petition to sign, and downloadable copies (in 
Word and .pdf format) to collect signatures.
    They may have reduced the SR-71 to museum status only, but, as you 
read this, they are destroying the USS America!!

73 es tnx de Greg WA3IVX


David Stinson wrote:

>Joe Foley wrote:
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>>Would someone please explain to me why we use an early
>>'50's airplane for this mission instead of the '60's
>>version, the SR-71's?
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>Because the Clinton administration intentionally destroyed 
>the SR-71 program, just as they did a great many defense
>related programs all over the world.  The aircrews were 
>scattered, the tanker crews scattered, the spare engines
>left out in the weather until worthless and the airframes
>allowed to be contaminated until they were fit only for museums.
>
>I used to say "if people only knew the truth," 
>about Clinton appointees, but I don't say that anymore.  
>They know the truth; they just don't give a damn.
>
>Dave S.
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