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Catching Up - ex-USS Ranger, Reviews and all

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Been a very busy winter and spring here in the Scribe’s household – between the demands of customer support during the Great Musudan Snipe Hunt and mom corporate’s demands for a tech writer, our days/nights/weekends have been filled with briefs, drafts (*not* of the liquid variety) and teleconferences measured in hours, not minutes; our time’s [...] [...]

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USS Ranger - Sad News

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For some time now we’ve been hosting a link for the USS Ranger Foundation, a group dedicated to moving the ex-USS Ranger (CVA/CV-61) to a site in the northwest US for establishment as the centerpiece of a maritime museum.  Contingent on that hope was approval by the US Navy to do so and raising significant [...] [...]

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USS Ranger (CVA-61/CV-61) Foundation

Third ship of the Forrestal-class CVA’s – the first supercarriers . . . Veteran of Vietnam and Desert Storm, Southern Watch and Restore Hope . . . Last ship to bear the storied name, Ranger, that began with John Paul Jones . . . Decommissioned in 1993 as part of the post-Cold War rush to [...] [...]