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In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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Five things about Destroyers...
DDGs The Navy commissioned the destroyer Wayne E. Meyer on Oct. 10 in Philadelphia, making it the 58th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer accepted into the fleet. The class has undergone many evolutionary changes since the Arleigh Burke was commissioned July 4, 1991, although just as many things about the ships have stayed the same.
For as familiar as they are in the fleet, here are five things you might not have known about the Navy’s workhorse destroyers:
1Designers considered building the Burkes with an aluminum superstructure atop a steel hull, a design the Navy used with its Ticonderogaclass cruisers and returned to with its Freedom-class littoral combat ships. But after the Royal Navy’s experience in the 1982 Falklands War with aluminum superstructures — which burned when struck by Argentine anti-ship missiles — the Navy opted for an all-steel design.
2The Burkes have been built in three major batches: Flight I, DDG 51 to 71; Flight II, DDG 72 to 78; and Flight IIA, DDG 79 to 112.
The Navy also had a series of designs for the “Flight III” Burkes, one of which was a 10,722-ton, lengthened variant, but they were shelved as the fleet’s fancy turned to the design that eventually became the Zumwalt class.
3Six ships — the Pinckney, Momsen, Chung-Hoon, Nitze, James E. Williams and Bainbridge — have a special “garage door” on their starboard sides to accommodate the Remote Minehunting System, an underwater robot that can swim ahead of a destroyer and search for mines.
4The newer ships are nicer: The past few Burkes, starting with the Sterett, have been designed from scratch to need fewer sailors than their predecessors, meaning they were built with a crew lounge in place of an aft berthing compartment.
5About a dozen of tomorrow’s Arleigh Burkes will be equipped with a “hybrid” propulsion system
— or at least that’s what Navy Secretary Ray Mabus would like to see
— that will enable them to cruise without running their main engines. Adding an electric motor to the ships’ main reduction gears would mean they could turn their screws using electricity from the ship’s service turbines instead of the main engines. Driving the ship this way would save fuel and give it more time on station, Navy engineers hope.
— Philip Ewing
Navy Times article, 10.19.09
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Permalink Reply by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on
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Thought everyone would enjoy learning a little more about our DDGs~!
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Permalink Reply by Melissa (Tucson) on
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Love it, Mary! Thank you for taking the time to post it.
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Permalink Reply by Mabel on
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Mary:
Very interesting info. 1982 Falkland War..... that happened in my country..... I didn't know then that my son will serve in the US Navy!
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Mabel - your son probably wasn't even born in 1982 ...was he?
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Mabel, Im fron England and remember the Falkland war so well. I had just started working for a living and a group of us spent many a day writting letters to the sailors down there. Little did I know my son would be serving in the US navy 27 years later!
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Wow - two of my momma friends both from England!! I should have introduced you ...earlier!
Helen' son is an FC like my Nick and they went thru the same schools, Kathleen's son just joined Nick's ship! This Navy sure is a small world somedays!!! LOL -
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