The paper today reports that the Navy is going to decommission a guided missile frigate that was put into service in 1985. Its last mission was to "support a multinational effort to target drug trafficking" that began in June. Why does the ship have to be scrapped? Do the drug runners have something more formidable that would out gun The Carr? Hell, I ran a Pontiac for almost as many years before I scrapped it. With all the talk of the budget deficit and the need to cut back on spending, this ship couldn't have continued on in service against a outlaw force? Instead some hawks want to cut social security and medicare.
(Source: "Guided Missile Frigate Carr in Decommisioned" in The Virginian Pilot on 3/14/13)
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