USS New York Officially Joins The Navy Fleet

[Rhiannon12866]

Source: NY1 News

The ship partially forged from 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center site officially became part of the Navy fleet today.

The commissioning ceremony for the USS New York on Manhattan's West Side began with a moment of silence for the victims of Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas and the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped set the first watch on the ship, while Governor David Paterson and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani attended.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a former New York senator, said in her keynote address that the ship encompasses the durability and perseverance of those who sacrificed their lives in the September 11th terrorist attacks.

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Includes video. The ship was built in Louisiana by shipbuilders who lost everything to Hurricane Katrina and will be open to the public before leaving for its home port in Virginia on Thursday. The previous USS NY served in both World Wars and was present at Iwo Jima. Magnificent ship and quite a patriotic moment...

Edited to add pic:

[SpiralHawk]

1. Yankees win World Series to set the stage for the christening...

Big Times for the Big Apple.

Tip O' the Cap from a Red Sox fan.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Thanks! It looks like that's the only news story that wasn't included...

[phasma ex machina]

3. "Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget," nt

[pjt7]

4. What brought down all 3 of the WTC Towers,

cause it wasn't just 2 airplanes & some fires?

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Um, "just...?"

And there were two towers, North and South. Terrorists seizing control of jumbo jets and flying them into tall buildings containing thousands of people, killing almost 4000 and changing the NY skyline forever, was a pretty monumental event in world history, no matter where in the world you're from. Because the fuel tanks were full, the fires that burned were severe enough to melt steel. This was huge, no matter what you believe...

[pjt7]

14. WTC7

doesn't make any sense.

3 steel skyskrapers, total collapse on there own structure @ free-fall speed, doesn't add up.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. WTC7 didn't collapse until 5:20pm.

All of the buildings surrounding the 110-story twin towers sustained severe structural damage after they collapsed. The collapse of WTC7 was anticipated and it had been evacuated. There was incredible "collateral damage" on that horrific day.

[NutmegYankee]

20. They didn't collapse at free fall velocity!

Debris tossed out by the collapse hit the ground several seconds before the building fully collapsed. And that is proven by videos rather than crack addled delusions. Speaking of - Aren't you missing from some forum?

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Nope, I was just answering the question.

This thread is about the commissioning of this spectacular ship.

[NutmegYankee]

24. That reply wasn't to you. nt

[edwardian]

39. The 2 towers collapsed at free-fall rate.

This is born out by timecodes on films and videos made the day of the tragedy. Furthermore, the debris landed neatly within the buildings footprints. Physics does not lie. Humans do, usually for gain...

[hack89]

42. So why was debris falling faster than the collapse zone? nt

[NutmegYankee]

44. Neatly into the footprint?

Then why was debris covering the entire site?

[NutmegYankee]

19. The steel didn't melt - Its just gets soft like clay at high temps

And gets a lot weaker - hence the art of the Blacksmith. He heats the steel/iron till it glows red hot (but is still a solid) then pounds it into shape with a hammer. As it cools it gets harder, so he puts ii in the oven and reheats it and repeats till done.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. Okay, thanks.

I'm familiar with horses. My point was about the high temps.

[edwardian]

40. Explain

why the steel stories lower, tens of stories, also melted despite not being heated. Explain the obvious sparking of thermite charges at the corners of the buildings, the discovery of nano-thermite in the debris of the towers and the fires that raged under the structuresz for weeks. Too much to allow for the official view to be true. Question authority. BTW, less than 3,000 people were killed at the WTC.

[NutmegYankee]

43. Sure-

But only after you get off whatever the hell you're smoking...

[naaman fletcher]

45. nice trick..

Explain "X,Y, and Z"

All of them are false. You come up with solid sources for each of your claims, and I will consider debunking them. dumbass.

[edwardian]

38. Good job

spreading the official version. It is a lie and you are doing the nation a disservice by repeating the lie. It was Goebbels who taught the world that a lie repeated often enough becomes accepted as truth. No matter what you believe....

[nuxvomica]

5. Here's more info on the type of ship

A "San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_York_%28LPD-21%29

[Democracyinkind]

6. Oh, the IRONy. Sick shit. Bizarrely American.

It just sucks that I find this soooooo wrong. And nobody else does.

At least it's a transport ship, that makes it a bit more bearable.

[Duende azul]

25. + 1

[Froward69]

7. the old USS New York was cool too.

[liberaltrucker]

9. That she was

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Thanks so much for this pic!

I had intended to look it up... Wow, so much history there. My Dad was in the Navy, on the USS Ranger, aircraft carrier, and I love history, so I'm very interested in this aspect of it...

[Froward69]

15. Funny but I found it on a republican

Blog commemorating the NEW USS New York labeled as the NEW USS New York...

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Huh? LOL...

Well, nobody ever said that the RW excelled at history, or current events.

[pinniped]

13. Speaking of old ships, the former U.S.S. Tripoli (LPH-10) is berthed at Pier 80 in San Francisco.

[liberaltrucker]

8. Pardon me, there's something in my eye

[Thothmes]

11. Actually she has been in commission for several weeks

at least. This was for a public show. She was commissioned some time back.

[Gore1FL]

18. It's cool in a weird way. What would be more impressive to me

is if they used some of the steal to build infrastructure in Afghanistan. Ultimately, that sort of thing is what we are about.

[Rhiannon12866]

23. I first heard this story on CNN today.

And their story reported that a large number of those serving on this ship are from New York. I thought that it was pretty cool, too.

As for Afghanistan, we don't yet know what's going to happen there...

[Gore1FL]

32. Sadly, I don't think anyone does...

but I'd rather we sent cement, steam rollers, steel, an civil engineers than sandbags, tanks, guns, and soldiers.

[Rhiannon12866]

33. Me, too.

But I think that the choices are additional troops or nothing.

As for the cement, steam rollers, steel and civil engineers, we could use them here. Our infrastructure is crumbling. There's a bridge just north of here that's in such bad shape that they've closed it, forcing drivers to take a 100 mile detour! But we seem to find the money to build mammoth structures in Iraq...

[Oregone]

26. Because the US is in great need of more military vessels

And as a bonus, it has a faulty justification for perpetual war melted right on in there. Makes me wave my ol red, white and get-the-fuck-off-my-property-before-I-kill-you-taxman blue.

[Mari333]

27. why couldnt they have used that steel as a memorial?

you know it has the victim's bodies in it in ashes. why a warring looking ship? I dont know, I wouldnt want my loved one's body being part of a ship unless it was a ship that promoted peace.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. I guess I didn't think of it that way...

I was thinking of it as a vessel that would be out there protecting Americans. And I found it reassuring that we now have a new ship in the fleet that's completely up to date...

[provis99]

29. ick. That is just completely ghoulish.

It reminds me of those ads on tv advertising souvenir coins "recovered" from the World Trade Center sites.

[Xenotime]

50. Exactly. What a horrible use of resources.

[StreetKnowledge]

30. Indeed so. And there are a lot of worse uses for steel from the Twin Towers.

And besides that, USS New York is something that benefits the Navy and the bean counters. New York and her sisters are designed to replace a substantial number of ships, thus substantially reducing the Navy's crew requirements. That's good, isn't it?

And just as an FYI, there was a USS New York between this and the WWI/WWII battleship. The previous USS New York City was a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, commissioned in March 1979 and decommissioned in April 1997.

[Rhiannon12866]

31. I agree. I thought it was one of the few good ideas...

And I didn't know that this would reduce the crews needed. Probably a good idea, too, with fewer folks signing up...

And you're right about the sub, the only naval vessel ever to be named after a city... Thanks for the info!

Here she is:

[Thothmes]

37. If I remember correctly of all Los Angeles class submarines

67 were named for U.S. cities and one was named for Admiral Rickover.

[Rhiannon12866]

46. You're right. I misspoke.

USS New York City was the first vessel to be named after the city, and not the state, of New York. Thanks for the info...

The USS New York City:

[bigjohn16]

34. We can build a war ship but ground zero is still an empty hole. What a country. nt

[Froward69]

41. AGREED!!!

blatant showing of misplaced priorities. there is still a hole in the heart of Manhattan.

[excess_3]

35. namesake, NYC or state of New York? .nt

[Rhiannon12866]

47. State of NY. It replaces the WWI-WWII battleship which was sunk

as a target ship in 1948. The USS New York City was a nuclear submarine, the only vessel named after the city...

USS New York (1914-1948):



USS New York City (1979-1997):

[excess_3]

48. all the other ships in its class are cities .nt

[Rhiannon12866]

49. Thank you!

I appreciate the information.

[Thothmes]

52. Except SSN 709 USS Hymen Rickover

[lonestarnot]

36. Beautius!

[ProudDad]

51. WTF!???!!

Another POS to add to the bloated war budget...

We can spend a trillion a year on the fucking legions but we can't have Universal, Comprehensive NON-PROFIT BASED health care in the USAmerikan Empire, eh?

PISS ON ALL FLAGS!!!

[Owl]

53. Fine. Now let's cut the miliitary budget in half.