Had to look her up. Nice record, except for this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lombangara.jpg

You are on the:

Bunker Hill** Essex-class Aircraft Carrier**


Ships have such great names.

Independence** Independence-class Light Carrier**

You got the first one of its class, apparently.

Franklin** Essex-class Aircraft Carrier**


I had no idea that they named a carrier after Aretha.

I feel for the poor bastard who gets Indy.

My luck....it will probably include me.

http://donmooreswartales.files.wordp...orktown4_1.jpg

Missouri** Iowa-class Battleship**

Oh, look at you with your big fancy battleship.

Barely passed the physical...[flat feet]...Ready to serve my country.

I was sad. I was hoping to ride out the war.

You are on:

Wickes** Fletcher-class Destroyer**


Tell me more.

Joining the seamen

USS Bunker Hill (CV/CVA/CVS-17, AVT-9) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship, the second U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, was named for the Battle of Bunker Hill. Bunker Hill was commissioned in May 1943, and served in several campaigns in the Pacific War, earning eleven battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation. She was badly damaged in May 1945 by Japanese kamikaze attacks, with the loss of hundreds of her crew, becoming one of the most heavily damaged carriers to survive the war.

After the attack she returned to the U.S. mainland for repairs and was decommissioned in 1947. While in reserve she was reclassified as an attack carrier (CVA), then an antisubmarine carrier (CVS), and finally an Auxiliary Aircraft Landing Training Ship (AVT), but was never modernized and never saw active service again. Bunker Hill and Franklin were the only Essex-class ships never recommissioned after World War II.

Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1966, she served as an electronics test platform for many years in San Diego bay, and was sold for scrap in 1973. An effort to save her as a museum ship in 1972 was unsuccessful.

Put me in Coach

I'll be quite honest with you, if I was drafted for any war of any kind that I would have over a 0.25% chance of death, I'm moving to another country. Not a chance in hell I'm risking my life.

I don't care what you call me. I'd be a terrible terrible person to be on your team in war. We'd be out in the trenches, you'd be like, okay I'm going in first, you come in behind me where all of those guys shooting are at and cover me. I'd be like, are you ****ing crazy, they are trying to kill people up there.

In.

Sweet! I dug up an old pic of me onboard.