{"id":30745,"date":"2012-07-12T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30745"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:00:48","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30745","title":{"rendered":"The End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

All things must pass.<\/p>\n

Many years ago somewhere in the Gulf of Tonkin,\u00a0 I believe, we were\u00a0 in line for a “bullets and beans” UNREP (Underway Replenishment for you Army types). It was standard practice for a ship ‘floor it” when the last line was dropped and pull away quickly so the next ship could get alongside and begin their UNREP. I was on deck with the working party getting ready and someone yelled “Damn look at that!”\u00a0 I hadn’t been paying much attention in that there were more immediate matters at hand. We all pretty much stopped and gawked at the ship pulling away…\u00a0 It looked like a huge haze grey speedboat with ROOSTER TAIL no less!<\/p>\n

That was my first look at the USS Long Beach CGN-9.<\/p>\n

So it was with a bit of melancholy that I noted: World’s first nuclear cruiser up for auction as scrap<\/a><\/p>\n

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The world’s first nuclear-powered surface warship, the USS Long Beach, was put up for auction as scrap metal on Tuesday to be dismantled and recycled, after spending the past 17 years mothballed in a naval shipyard in Washington state.<\/p>\n

The 720-foot (219-metre) vessel, the first American cruiser since the end of World War Two to be built new from the keel up, boasted the world’s highest bridge and was the last such U.S. vessel with teakwood decks, according to Navy history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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