chefmike
New Member
So if your destroyer is following the carrier during flight ops, it is called standing plane guard...
Then what is it called when your destroyer is sitting of cape canaveral during a shuttle launch?
Is there a standard amount/configuration of ships involved each time the shuttle launches?
I ask this as my Son who is a Midshipman is on his 3/c cruise on the USS Carney. They got underway Mon morning and the shuttle launched Mon at 14:30ish. Carney is homeported in Mayport about 130 NM from the cape.
So is it likely that they were either involved or at least able to view the launch?
Then what is it called when your destroyer is sitting of cape canaveral during a shuttle launch?
Is there a standard amount/configuration of ships involved each time the shuttle launches?
I ask this as my Son who is a Midshipman is on his 3/c cruise on the USS Carney. They got underway Mon morning and the shuttle launched Mon at 14:30ish. Carney is homeported in Mayport about 130 NM from the cape.
So is it likely that they were either involved or at least able to view the launch?