"One Day To Fly"

[claidheamhmor]

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is currently anchored in Table Bay on a visit to Cape Town. I really wish I could get a close look at it.

Some facts I read about the Theodore Roosevelt though, to put things in perspective:

• With a crew of well over 5000, the Theodore Roosevelt has more military personnel than the entire South African Navy.
• With 90 aircraft and helicopters, the Theodore Roosevelt has many times more combat aircraft than the entire South African Air Force. Not only more, but significantly more capable too.

And here we're talking only of the aircraft carrier, not the naval group that wanders around with it.

According to the unofficial Theodore Roosevelt website, the carrier was where the well-known "crewman sucked into jet intake" incident took place.