The Scary Way US Navy Sinks its Own Billion $ Ships in Middle of Ocean

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[chipps]

The training is invaluable, works for me.

[mccoybyz]

Fun fact - the US navy maintains a 50, 000 acre forest in Indiana named Constitution Grove comprised of white oak specifically and exclusively for the maintaining of the USS Constitution! Pretty crazy, right!

[marksauck]

I was so happy they made my ship a floating museum and large numbers of people see it everyday. I have a personal reason for this because I have my painted murals on the ship that I did 50 years ago.

[Tomcatntbird]

I was in the US Navy for 8 years. My first and third ship were used as target practice. USS Guam LPH9 and the Peterson DD 969.

[Bob-xgeq]

The first ship at 3:37 was the USS McClusky (FFG-41), and the second ship at 4:29 was the USNS Kilauea (T-AE-26), I served on both during my Naval career and it's kind of sad to see them go that way.

[moparsquid]

The USS RACINE LST 1191 was my first ship 79 to 81 it was very hard to see her go down so unceremoniously

[Canthus]

What's crazy is just how hard it is to sink a naval vessel.

[samuelschick]

Correction about the U.S.S. Rancine. A Newport class LST is not heavely armored ship. It is a thin skinned ship. I was on LST 1189 for 3.5 years and Newport class LSTs do not have armor.

[carlcantrell]

There are 2 things about this. 1) it shows the crews how hard it is to sink their ships and 2) shows how hard it is for the weapons to sink other ships so they better shoot straight.

[steveamiaga]

USS Constitution doesn't "move around the country" except to flip it around every year so it weathers evenly... Other than that, it's permanently in Boston.

[hardworkerforlife]

Remember if you work hard 40 plus hours a week it'll pay off in the long run.

[SAMURAJ]

I'm just love these kind of movie's 😊

[robertoguerra]

No quiere que nadie copie su inteligencia poreso es el número 1 en el mundo Dios bendiga a América.

[atinoteintunovas]

Is a wonderful experience to see all of these equipment Commision or Decommission! No matter what is always a great experience. Thanks!!!

[XX]

Gotta Love The Navy's LCS's! Great big jet-skis which would be more appropriately named the "YUGO of the Seven Seas."

[TheWorldsGreatest]

so they talk about pollution and global warming but still sink ships on purpose in the sea lmfao the irony

[AgentX]

It is much cheaper to sink a ship then to scrap it for metal and parts!😮

[Tonetwisters]

In the early 1950's, the US NAVY was smart enough to mothball their ships way up a river that was close to me. It was really cool to drive by them on the way to a fun day, and see all that gray floating close to shore. They don't seem to be smart enough to do that now. Sinking them is a waste of a lot of steel, in my humble opinion. And you never know when 1/2 your fleet will be bombed into oblivion as they were somewhere in Hawaii once upon a crime ...

[kirkkirkland]

My ship the USS BADGER FF 1071 ended up being a target ship and I'm glad it's on the bottom of the ocean instead of being scraped!!!
GO NAVY!!!!

[BdogFinal]

The training benefit from the SINKEX exercises are invaluable to our Navy crews.