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This is Hilarious!

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Benson

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US Navy Releases Terrorist
The US Navy today announced that it has released a senior Al Quaeda terrorist after questioning him extensively for 27 days while being held prisoner aboard a US aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.

In a humanitarian gesture, the terrorist was given $50 US and a white 1962 Ford Fairlane automobile upon being released from custody.

The attached photo shows the terrorist on his way home just after being released by the Navy.
 

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VAmookie

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who on the boat gives the OK to do something like that? Do things like launching cars/footballs actually happen?
 

Schnugg

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Pic's been floating around the internet for years. Don't do this very often.

When a shooter leaves a carrrier after a tour of duty, his flight deck boots are launched down the cat in a ceremony with him doing the launch steps for a jet. Pretty funny to see a set of flight deck boot tied by the laces go over the deckedge at 150 kts.

They can pretty much shoot anything you can hook up to the cat. In the yard large weighted sleds that float (weighing up to 90K #) are used to test the cats before sea trials. They roll like a car.
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From their web site: It may not be an F-18 Hornet, but the launching of this orange sled into Virginia’s James River is a big step for Precommissioning Unit Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). The successful test of the newest Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier’s flight deck catapult is another rung in the long ladder to ship’s certification and eventually, commissioning in May 2003.

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The Chief

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Remember that well, Mid 1962. It was actually a test aboard USS Enterprise CVA(N)-65 of the new nose tow gear that was to replace the catapult bridle. As I remember, an A-6 was next in the launch cycle.
 
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