panarchist

Nice photo of LHA-6 in your post.  Didn't want to clutter up the thread further, but that's the "new" USS America - I was at the commissioning in October 2014 and got to look around the flight and hangar decks and talk with one of the ABHs from V-1 Division (the flight deck) and ask questions about what it was like to work on that deck. I'm a charter member of the "old" America's veteran org - the USS America Carrier Veterans Association.