SoCal - Day 5 - USS Midway
Today I spent a good part of the day on the USS Midway. An Air Craft Carrier that was launched in 1945. Although this ship is extreemly old, it has much to say about world events today. Through its lifetime it fought in Vietnam and shot down Migs and had the first angled deck for airplanes to fly off of. It patrolled both Atlantic and Pacific.
This ship even brings us to 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. The Midway helped protect Saudia Araia from an Invasion from Iraq. When Iraq would not retreat from Kuwait the United Nations gave Iraq an ultimatum deadline of 15 January 1991 for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. President George H.W. Bush addressed the nation on 16 January 1991 at 9 p.m. EST and announced that the libration of Kuwait from Iraq, Operation Desert Storm, had begun. The Navy launched 228 sorties from Midway and USS Ranger in the Persian Gulf, from USS Theodore Roosevelt enroute, and USS John F. Kennedy, USS Saratoga, and USS America in the Red Sea. In addition, the Navy launched more than 100 Tomahawk missiles from nine ships in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf. At 9 p.m. EST on 27 February, President Bush declared Kuwait had been liberated and Operation Desert Storm would end at midnight. Midway departed the Persian Gulf 11 March 1991.
We started our tour in the flight hanger underneath the flight deck. I allways wondered how they store the airplanes.
We toured all through the ship, we saw the post office, doctors office, kitchen, Flight Control It was amazing. Here is a picture from the Flight Deck of the Control Tower. It was massive. This place is so complex. I can't believe they could manage it during combat.
After we left the ship we took off from San Diego on route to the Grand Canyon about 5 hours away! it is really HOT !
This ship even brings us to 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. The Midway helped protect Saudia Araia from an Invasion from Iraq. When Iraq would not retreat from Kuwait the United Nations gave Iraq an ultimatum deadline of 15 January 1991 for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. President George H.W. Bush addressed the nation on 16 January 1991 at 9 p.m. EST and announced that the libration of Kuwait from Iraq, Operation Desert Storm, had begun. The Navy launched 228 sorties from Midway and USS Ranger in the Persian Gulf, from USS Theodore Roosevelt enroute, and USS John F. Kennedy, USS Saratoga, and USS America in the Red Sea. In addition, the Navy launched more than 100 Tomahawk missiles from nine ships in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf. At 9 p.m. EST on 27 February, President Bush declared Kuwait had been liberated and Operation Desert Storm would end at midnight. Midway departed the Persian Gulf 11 March 1991.
We started our tour in the flight hanger underneath the flight deck. I allways wondered how they store the airplanes.
We toured all through the ship, we saw the post office, doctors office, kitchen, Flight Control It was amazing. Here is a picture from the Flight Deck of the Control Tower. It was massive. This place is so complex. I can't believe they could manage it during combat.
After we left the ship we took off from San Diego on route to the Grand Canyon about 5 hours away! it is really HOT !
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