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Topic: What's going to happen to the USS Cole???
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Bonzonie
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posted 11-21-2000 12:44 AM
    
What will the USN do about the USS Cole? With the USN repair it and put it back into service? or would it do something else?I've heard that the bomb blew a pretty big hole. ------------------
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Posts: 246 | From: Yokohama city, Kanagawa pref, Japan | Registered: Aug 2000 | IP: Logged
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Skoonj
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posted 11-21-2000 05:53 AM
It will be repaired and placed back in service. I don't think the damage was as severe as on USS Belknap, which was placed back in service after a collision and fire that wiped out the entire superstructure.Skoonj ------------------
Excelsior, Fathead!
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Skoonj
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Member # 80
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posted 11-22-2000 10:34 AM
It might have been a Bent Spear.Skoonj ------------------
Excelsior, Fathead!
--Jean Shepherd
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Skoonj
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posted 11-22-2000 04:11 PM
Or maybe a Flacid Phallus?Skoonj ------------------
Excelsior, Fathead!
--Jean Shepherd
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Skater
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posted 11-23-2000 02:53 AM
From the information that I can find on that, the Belknap issued a standard alert to CINCLANT some time after the incident indicating that a possibility of a nuclear mishap involving nuclear weapons could happen.This was SOP at the time for all vessels whether nuclear weapons were aboard or not, because the US Navy neither confirms or denies the existence of nuclear weapons aboard any active vessel. The Belknap's Command were simply following procedure. The fact that there is not much more information on this available, to me, indicates: 1) an accident involving nuclear weapons did not take place nor was likely and 2) the Belknap most probably was not underway with nuclear weapons at that particular time However, the secrecy involving naval nuclear ordinance, and other types of classified weapons, may also indicate that any accident or possible accident, however likely, may have been quietly covered up. The Navy is very good at keeping secrets. Trust me on that. Even within the Navy, disinformation is the order of the day. So who really knows... -Skater
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