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Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
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Originally Posted by DWBOX2000
I walked around the Yorktown yesterday. First, let me say I was blown away by the size of it. It was like a large floating convention center.
The big question I had was being in the engine room. approximately how many people were needed to run something like that. I could not believe the number of switches and valves, there must have been thousands. Regarding man power, how did they know what switch did what?
Last thing, I didn’t realize how much the carrier dwarfed the battleship there (USS Laffey).
Great day, I learned quite a bit.
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