the ship was the USS Samuel B. Roberts. The original was a destroyer escort that was sunk in the Battle of Samar where it earned the moniker "the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship".
My old man worked at BIW Portland when she came back for repairs and was on hand for said repairs. The engine room was essentially gone. The ship was literally in two pieces. The DC efforts were nothing short of extraordinary. A whole section of the keel was gone. For those who don't understand the significance of that, the keel is the backbone of the ship. Generally, if you break it, find a lifeboat or start swimming. She's going down. Somehow, by some miracle, by the Grace of God, the crew literally used cables, and whatever wasn't nailed down to hold their ship, that again, was in two pieces together. Dad said they had to build an entire new engine room and cut the remains of the old one out and roll the new section in place. The Navy didn't retire the Sammy B until 2015, almost 30 years after she got blown in two. The fact she remained afloat in two pieces is astounding enough, but how she managed to float at all under the weight of the massive set of balls that crew had to not only get blown in to two pieces, but to hold her together long enough for the Navy to find and dispatch a heavy lift ship to bring her home. The FFG-7 class was designed to be a cheap solution for a small surface combatant. Cheap to build, operate, and replace. And it got blown into two pieces, kept afloat, and served another almost 30 years. So, ya, if you are a country that wants to "get froggy" with the Navy, you can literally blow one of our ships into two pieces, and that ship will likely still be able to watch your fleet burn and sink. And another thing to remember, BIW built the Sammy B, BIW put her back together, Bath built is best built.
@@Majaweed17nah that requires 8 boats. One boat for half a Navy. That's proportional right? I mean we can only annihilate so much before we run out of this to blow up. Then we destroy your land.
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@@NachtjagerVII I'm referring to the 2 nukes dropped on Japan. Had they not surrendered after the 2nd, we had 12 more targets lined up for a sunrise. Infact we also had a 3rd bomb ready to go
Regan said "proportional response." The Navy interpreted that as "their mine field cost them x% of their naval budget, so we will spend x% of OUR budget on the response."
*Japan, pouring itself some sake, about to watch Iran learn in one day what it learned in five years at war with the US:* "It's gonna be real weird, seeing this happen from the outside, but it'll also be hilarious."
America sank half their fleet in 8 hours. 2 of them brought it on themselves because it was after the ceasefire was ordered and the only way to legally engage was if they engaged America first.
The entire region hears boss music when the USS Enterprise pulls up off their coast. Carriers named Enterprise don't know the meaning of quit, but they sure as fuck know how to distribute ass kickings.
The repairs done to the ship and how quickly the damage was controlled speaks volumes about the us navy's efficiency. And the fact that they limped it all the way across the Atlantic. The moskova was sank after a light missile hit, while the Samuel b Robert's was literally torn in half and controlled the damages to remain afloat all the way across the ocean.
Obviously, Iran forgot how worried Russia and a lot of Americans were that President Reagan was more than willing to launch everything. He was like i wish a MoFo would. And i was serving on the USS Enterprise at the time. It was the largest US Naval engagement since WWII.
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My father used to race powerboats in the gulf around this time period and all the racers had a running joke that, "If you hit a mine, you're disqualified." Lol
The transition from gangsters paradise to Star Wars was indeed godly, but the face on the aircraft carrier you knew nefarious shit was about to go down
Iran also forgot about 1986 and Lybia how they sent out a couple few Migs at the USS Roosevelt that became a nice little light show and then my ship, the USS Enterprise, shifted from it's station on the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean sea at a flank bell, leaving all our escorts behind except for the only other nuke ship, the USS Arkansas to play tag together over their Line of death.
Lol proportional response. The iran navy was transformed that work day into a pretty good coral reef. 8 hours. It took 8 hours and iran lost 99.9% of its navy.
How would you expect to take these really small boats serious also we have a ship that was hit by a artillery gun and she proceeded to level the island Don't piss old ships off
What with the Pueblo, the Liberty and the Beirut Marine Barracks bombing, none of which resulted in a proportional response, the Iranians were fully justified in thinking that the US was a paper tiger.
More or less. In the end even those that scream the loudest about getting away from it's use...much of what they depend on still requires it. @@aidenpearce5275
