October Islander Mothership Trip Just Announced!

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Originally Posted by FISHIONADO

I was a radar technician in Squadron VAW-117 on the Enterprise in 1985.
I was surprised when the captain, Leuschner, was promoted to fleet admiral a few years later.

Enterprise was the Teflon ship. Rocky Spane's career also survived an Enterprise grounding (he retired as VADM)

My division's (RC-11) berthing compartment was directly over one of the voids that flooded because of the grounding. I heard stories of them sounding the void and never hitting bottom

She's a tough ship. If she could survive multiple MK-82 detonations on the flight deck

a little thing like hitting an undersea mountain wasn't going to stop her.