USS John Rodgers - The Last of the Fletchers (In Service) 

Weres the proof?

11:21 ahh, “the war between English and Español Google searches” 😂 It is real, I know... However you can find them if someone helps you, or by configuring your browser to look for the correct list of searches... and then use Spanish/English translator for the text. I speak perfect English and Spanish, but what i understand most is systems... and actually n00bs programming algorithms: I speak “nonsense” he he As for the Cuitlahuac, which after a couple of times saying it starts to sound correctly, I am sure the Armada Mexicana (Mexican Navy) only used it to show at festivities, also as training patrols, and perhaps to show face against neighboring nations to the south... nothing more could be asked other than to chase Narco convoys, which I am sure the ship’s presence would be buried in a ton of reports about every engagement, as it should. The Armada Mexicana is the least corrupt armed force in Mexico, over the Mexican Army and the Policia Federal... and then there is nothing more of interest other than the great police force of San Pedro Garza García (municipality near the city of Monterrey)...

WHEC 725, Jarvis.

Another great role was radar picket ships

No, the Rodgers was named after the Rodgers family, members of which served in different conflicts for over a century. There were a number of naval officers from the family, and seem to have served between 1798 and 1926.

My Ford Fiesta had 160,000 miles in 8 years and ran flawlessly when it was totaled, saving my life with its crumple zones just a couple years ago. I was at a complete stop and read ended by a car doing freeway speed. The van I'm sitting in has 330,000 miles and was built in 1995. Maintain your shit, and it lasts.

Mind, the $1 thing is a quirk of federal laws requiring some form of payment in money for certain activities. If the USA is "selling" a warship for $1, that is just a legal formality because the US Navy cannot just give away ships for free without a lot of legal work that not every Congress wants to deal with. The US Navy usually tries to get a good price for its old ships, and the $1 ship is very much the exception, not the rule. Mexico was not interested in losing the scrap value, especially because American Navy steel from WW2 is some of the best you can find, so it was always going to be hard for a museum ship fund to match what scrappers would be willing to pay for her.

@@genericpersonx333 yeah, especially if it was steel from before the nuclear tests.

Indeed! @@DavidJones-me7yr

But destroyers get to go to smaller liberty ports. Plus the town isn't saturated with squids like you'd see if you're on a carrier or in the same port as a carrier!!

@albertoswald8461 very true. I can't argue with you there. I always loved seeing our escorts. We had the USS Spruance with us. The lead ship in her class with gas turbine engines. She could haul ass !

@@billotto602, I remember the Sprucans!! I was in from 1989 to 1993 so I remember them, the Kidds, the Charlie Adams class and the nuke cruisers too. If memory serves the first Arleigh Burke class destroyer was commissioned right around when I was getting out. I was always surprised that the Spruances were scrapped so fast after being decommissioned. I would think that the foreign countries we sell equipment to would have loved them,especially in you put a VLS where they had the ASROC launcher or the Sea Sparrow launcher or both!!

@albertoswald8461 they scrapped them ? They were so young ! I was in 76-80. I was on the USS Forrestal. VA 85, an A6E Intruder squadron. They're all scrapped now as is the Forrestal. 😫😫😫

@@billotto602 , yeah. They scrapped them roughly from the late 1990's through the 2000's. They kept one around for a while testing new equipment but I'm pretty sure that one is being shaved with by now. No kidding? I worked at Naval Weapons Station Earle as a boiler operator for a few months back in 1996. The lead operator was a Forestal veteran. He was on her for the big fire in 1967-68! Pretty grisly. He talked about putting people into body bags as well as trying to fight the fire. That's one I'm glad I wasn't born to see!!!