{"id":695,"date":"2012-04-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=695"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:52:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:52:40","slug":"new-orleans-navy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Navy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in New Orleans this week at an energy business convention. While there the US Navy and friends showed up for a party. A party to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812 and the writing of the Star Spangled Banner. New Orleans is the innaugral city of a three year fifteen city celebration. I mean if you are going to celebrate, you might as well start in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

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The USS Frank Mitscher<\/a>, a Guided Missile Destroyer. The ship has a brand new skipper, in February this year Commander Monika Stoker assumed command of the ship. She is also the first African American woman to command an American warship.<\/p>\n

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The USS Dewert<\/a>, an “Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigate.” Reportedly<\/a> in October 2011 this ship, along with a British vessel,  rescued a an Italian Merchantmen from Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

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The French Navy Germinal<\/a>, a light monitoring frigate,  showed up for the party also.<\/p>\n

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The USS Wasp, an Amphibious Assault Ship. It is a lot bigger than what it looks like in this photograph. This is as close as I could get.<\/p>\n

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It carries a whole bunch of Marines and their equipment. Reportedly, about 3000 sailors from the various ships had a pretty good time Tuesday night in the French Quarter.<\/p>\n

The modern warships were great and a special to see but the big attraction was the Tall Ships that came in to celebrate also.<\/p>\n

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The Coast Guard’s WIX Eagle a training ship was there. She started out as the the German vessel, SSS Horst Wessel. Adolf Hilter attended her commissioning. The United States seized her after World War II.<\/p>\n

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The Indonesian’s sent their KRI Dewaruci,<\/a> their navy’s training vessel. It also was built in Germany in the 1930’s. It<\/p>\n

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I loved the woodwork on this ship.<\/p>\n

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Ecuador sent their BAE Guayas<\/a>, another training vessel. It was my favorite because of the condor below.<\/p>\n

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I just hope that all the sailors get back to their ships, the right ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was in New Orleans this week at an energy business convention. While there the US Navy and friends showed up for a party. A party to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812 and the writing of the Star Spangled Banner. New Orleans is the innaugral city of a three year fifteen city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[428,461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-orleans","category-ships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}