Military/media worship run amok as group tries to save 'Top Gun' carrier.

[RandySF]

The decommissioned supercarrier Ranger is headed to the scrapyard unless a Southern California organization can persuade the Navy to spare it in the next few weeks.

Ranger, which Top Gun fans will remember for its on-screen cameo, was sold to International Shipbreaking late last year after a previous effort to turn the ship into a museum failed, according to a Dec. 22 release from Naval Sea Systems Command.

In early January, California-based Top Gun Super Carrier of Long Beach Inc., launched an online petition and social media campaign to save the Ranger.

"If you think about what we can bring to it, an economic boon to the city of Long Beach, it's a no-brainer," project manager Mike Shanahan, a career hospital architect, told Navy Times in a phone interview.

"If you think about what we can bring to it, an economic boon to the city of Long Beach, it's a no-brainer," project manager Mike Shanahan, a career hospital architect, told Navy Times in a phone interview.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/15/group-scrambles-to-save-top-gun-carrier-from-scrapheap/21838397/

[petronius]

1. The Midway in San Diego has proved to be a huge tourist attraction, but it

doesn't sound like the advocates in Long Beach have managed to pull together the immense resources and support that it took to make that happen.

Personally, I'd prefer an artificial reef/dive spot - but that's far from cheap as well...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. The Pentagon could sell it to the Taliban and make money at both ends.

First from the Taliban and then from whining to congress to get money to protect us from the mighty Taliban Navy.

Win/Win for the MIC.

[Historic NY]

3. I was thinking cheaper razor blades..

they are freaking expensive......

[olddots]

4. Tom Cruse should buy it

And make it a Hubbard museum on the planet Zorbo .