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When the fast boats was the nitros😌😎

Wow....I can't believe I haven't come across this very cool and thanks!!! America v-1 80-84

I miss my home!!! She was my home from 17 to 26!! I cry when I see this!!🇺🇸🇺🇸⚓️⚓️

I was fortunate enough to serve on that ship. V-4 division (fuels) from 1985 to 89 and crossed the Line of Death in Libya so very long ago when I was only 18 yrs old. Now I am fast approaching 60 but I am STILL not much different with my tenacity! 🫡🇺🇸😂

Why don’t they donate these grand ships to other countries.

85-88 two , 2 cruises , 17 hour days during combat missions , sleep between launch and recovery , couldn't even go to the mess deck to eat , they brought us boxed lunches , still so sad to see her end

My first assignment out of boot camp as ship's company April 1963 - june 1966.

Remember her in Mayport 1971 or 72

What a waste

My grandfather served on the Saratoga and the Currituck.

I think the navy should have hung on to A few of these

Sad ending for proud lady Fighting Cock was a mean SOB, not the candyass super sara shit

I served on the Sara during Desert Storm, followed by the 1992 Med Cruise. It makes me so sad to see her on the bottom of the ocean. She belongs up top, where she lived for so many proud years. Farewell to an old friend.

This was incredibly difficult to watch. I was onboard when we crossed the Line of Death in '85. My berthing was 6feet below the #2catch cable where the planes landed. My job was fuels. V-4. That ship took me to many countries and molded me into who I became. I will miss her dearly.

I spent many a day onboard. Its like losing a family member

So much fun!

Interesting that her predecessor, CV-3, still remains while this tired old girl was scrapped and is no more.

Someone could have actually landed a real aircraft on her deck..........Someone with some balls! Yeah! Tom Cruise!

Isn't there a rating system for carrier landings...!!!

Sailed on her as cadet back in summer 2002

My Destroyer, DD-844, stood plane guard duty for the Saratoga in the Med,

Somebody forgot to call the ball

Sad to see her gone for scrap. She would have made a great hurricane aid ship.

V-2 The Gear Last Cruise. She has so many Great Sailors. ABE1 PAYTON AND ABE2 WILLIAMS finished The Last Catch on her. Great Memories.

This made me really sad. My Dad had two tours in the Mediterranean on the Saratoga, he was a fighter pilot. His favorite thing to do was land on the carrier at night, he said it was like landing on a postage stamp in the middle of the ocean. My dad died in 2015 but boy did he love to fly! I've actually been on this ship and I still remember the smells the sounds and we were treated like royalty. I miss you Papa ( CDR. L.D. Tennison ).

Ummm...that’s not the 3 wire Bro...

My father served on this ship back in the 1960s. It breaks my heart to see it go.

Its not scrapped!

my father served on the Saratoga in the early 60's, RIP #CharlesHRamseyMD

She’s gone now, and only Kitty Hawk and JFK are left and they’re both on the chopping block.

A bit of history there.. should have been a museum 🤔

Saw it and the Forrestal moored at NS Newport in 2009. Very neat to see.

They should have kept the Saratoga in service why spend billions and billions of dollars on New ships the US government spent billions of dollars on a new ship 4 years later the Decommissioned this is what I'm talkin about that was a waste of money they spent billions of dollars on this new ship to be built and they sent that billion dollar ship to the scrap yard If I Was President I would keep these old ships in service having these old ships from the 40s and 50s is well worth it it's better to have it shipped that's analog

Great final chapter

Permission to buzz the tower. Permission granted.

Wished it was taken to a location where it could be turned into a condo complex on the sea!

The aircraft carrier is not well maintained

Awesome. I think people would have paid good money, for a once in a lifetime opportunity to fly an RC model off an aircraft carrier, like that. 👍

Aren't you supposed to try for the 3 wire?

😥 Fair Winds and smooth Seas my old friend

My berthing compartment was under the starboard cat, CR Division.

Looks like the actual last air op was a Robinson R44.

They should have done it with a manned aircraft like a Cessna 150!

Nice to see harbor pilots are RC nerds just like the tug drivers.

I went on a field trip to tour the Saratoga when I was a junior in high school (1993). And years before that (I think I was in 5th grade at the time), one of my uncles who lived up north saw the Sara and commented that an 18-wheeler on her deck would look like a damn toy.

This is truly awesome! I served on a destroyer in Mayport and often tied up across the basin from Sara. The fact that they used a Corsair for the flight is even better!

Nice video footage

I was with the USS Saratoga in 1971 - 72 assigned at Aviation Supply Division as an Aviation Storekeeper ☺

damn its sad

Nothing I like better than the smell of Benzene in the morning.