Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BigBull who wrote (66754)	1/18/2003 2:36:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Maybe it's nothing, but it strikes me as strange that the USS Abraham Lincoln, home base Everett WA, supposedly rotating home from the Gulf, is in Perth, Australia, ostensibly for essential repairs. Apparently the repairs consist of resurfacing the landing decks. The crew have been flown home and will be flown back. >>Only the Abraham Lincoln, which just completed a tour of duty in the Gulf, has the new F/A-18 Super Hornet, which has more range and is less vulnerable to enemy radar than the older Hornet.<< postnewspapers.com.au Why couldn't the landing decks be resurfaced when it got back to home port? How essential is it to resurface the landing decks of a ship which is rotating home?