Added on Tuesday 12 August 2008 04:02:22
by JPWesterberg
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USS Horne serves as a target during RIMPAC 2008 and hit hit by among other things, three AGM-84 Harpoon Missiles fired from CVW-5 attached to the Carrier Kitty Hawk.
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Actually no I was seeking another video and that came up the horne sucked burned up a bearing in a storm left us with 1 screw, had a couple fires, and one of the guys fell to his death when one of the small boats fell off the freaking ship and hit the pier.
The officers were scared to come out on the weather decks at night but the best was I was after lookout, and twice they almost got me killed. Maybe you like the idiots playing with a 5 inch gun while your on the fantail
@maxquad21 Sure it can be recycled... but as has been mentioned here many times, It would cost the taxpayers more to recycle her than to dispose of her in this fashion. The steel doesn't come out of the ship by itself. It takes months and thousands of man hours to break a ship. The breaking process is performed after contracts are awarded to International Shipbreaking LLC. They are paid millions of dollars to break the ship and they keep all the money from scrap recycling.
It's always a sad thing, when any ship dies.
She did her duty, and always brought her crew home safe.
You can't ask any more from any vessel, great or humble.
But somehow, this seems a more fitting end for a Warship, then to be hauled to the breakers, and reduced to scrap.
I served on the Horne from March '88 until Dec '91, and was in Deck Division, so seeing it just blown up like that was kinda sad for me. I put many many hours in cleaning and painting the ship. But like all good things, it had to come to an end. I have alot of memories from this ship, both good and bad, but wouldn't have changed it for the world.
@FMJED I served on the Horne for 3 years. I am suprised I was so sad to see her go. I recall being in the gulf, when the OOD decided to chase down a N. Viet gun boat and we were headed for coast line of N. Viet at flank speed. Captain Woods took over the con and turned Horne right hard rudder at flank speed. I wonder if anyone recalls that incident.
@trollerguy And many of the parts on Kennedy came from Horne. I was on one of the details that stripped stuff off Horne so it could be sent to Kennedy.
No matter how good the ship...seems like they all go this way. Sad to hear my first ship DaleDLG/CG19 met this fate in Jan. 2000. But...the Joseph Kennedy DD850 my second ship is a floating museum out of Battleship Cove Mass. But they need funds to keep it up.
She was my second ship back in the mid 1970s.. I was one of the Boiler Techs, no longer even an option in today's Navy. She was a great ship and had a great crew; (well. for the most part anyway). Sad to see the video but you can't destroy my memories. Thanks, Joe. (I still miss the Horne site's old message center.)
From BT2 Bud
hey megawarts. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've never served this
GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE PLANET in any capacity. I'm guessing you voted for
for this present 'Facist Regime' as well. The really sad thing is that there is hoards of 'public school indocrinated' fools out there who are willing to sell-out your freedoms for the cheap promises of self-serving frauds who make up the 'Ruling
Class' of both parties. WAKE UP!
@FMJED But she does no good as part of the mothball fleet... and these ships would have never been used again... anymore than cruisers from WWII would be used again. The days of 1200lb steam are over. A comparable ship today can operate with a much smaller crew... her time has come and gone... heck... they're using Ticonderoga's as targets... (we're getting old too)
Such a sad way to see her go. . .
Mothball her, don't cut her up or sink her. . .
The Navy spent so much money upgrading these ships to NTU only to scrap them soon after.
It's not a question of if, but when we will need these ships, now, they are all gone.
FC1 Ed Davis, FOX Division USS HORNE, 93-94
@levisnteeshirt to take one of these ships as a tourist attraction is a great idea until you discover that the city/state is responsible for all the costs invvolved but that the Navy has overall authority of the vessel but cannot, by law, be financially attached to the ship(s). I live in charleston sc, the home of the USS Yorktown, it is going to cost 100mil to restore/repair her. the Navy said get it done or sink her. they're not even close to raising that amount from private sources so...
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