Subscribe today! Get full access to all the latest news, videos and forums at Gatorcountry.com. Its quick, easy and starts instantly. Join now!
ATTENTION! Please pardon our internet dust. We're working on upgrading our user database system and we've run into a small glitch. If you're unable to access the system or getting a banned notice, you will be able to get in soon. Hang in there. Thanks for your patience and our apologies!
Well to be precise:
USS Bataan (LHD-5) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship.
It is not an aircraft carrier like the USS Yorktown the other ship that was used that night and had the Ohio State vs. Marquette game cancelled.
The flight deck on the Bataan is only used for helicopters.
An amphibious assault ship is a "carrier." I did not say it was a carrier like the Yorktown, but it is technically an aircraft carrier. An "amphibious assault ship" is also known as a "commando carrier" or an "amphibious assault carrier." It is not, however, a battleship.
There are only 31 aircraft carriers in in the world, and 20 of those are US NAVY carriers (10 Nimitz class carriers, 1 Enterprise carrier, 9 Amphibious Assault carriers). The Bataan is one of those 20. It is sometimes classified among the STOVL carriers or "short take off vertical landing" (1 of the 3 common classifications, CATOBAR, STOBAR, STOVL).
You are also technically wrong about the flight deck. It has been used for years in the middle east as a "Harrier Carrier" for Marine Corps Harrier II squadrons, and has also hosted the Osprey "tiltrotor" vessels - neither of which is a helicopter.
I will revert back to the layman's term, battleship. It's a ship that is sent into battle so it's a battleship.
Quote:
During World War II, the battleship was replaced by the aircraft carrier as the most powerful kind of warship afloat. Some battleships remained in service during the Cold War and the last were decommissioned in the 1990s.
They have all been decommissioned by the US Navy...just go with it. Carrier
We would also accept "warship" or "capital ship" or "Sea Control Ship"
Quote:
The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships
In the 21st century, the aircraft carrier is the last remaining capital ship, with capability defined in decks available and aircraft per deck, rather than in guns and calibers. The United States possesses supremacy, in both categories of aircraft carriers, possessing not only 11 active duty supercarriers each capable of carrying and launching nearly 100 tactical aircraft, but an additional 12 amphibious assault ships as capable (in the "Sea Control Ship" configuration) as the light VSTOL carriers of other nations.
You don't understand. People are not required to adhere to military jargon.
Women aren't, but men are. (I know that's sexist) Even then, military women and women from military families are required to adhere to military jargon. I'm a whack job liberal and borderline pacifist, but I know enough to show proper respect. Calling a carrier a battleship is like referring to a tank as a truck.
Terminology aside, the game(s) should be permanently moved back to San Diego, where the temperature is higher and the humidity is lower at this time of the year. No condensation problems with the game last year when it was played on the Carl Vinson. The game was also played earlier in the day, if I recall 5:00 pm local time (8:00 pm EST).
Linear Mode
