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6,500 U.S. Navy sailors are on board this floating city that carries 73 fighter jets and helicopter gunships, has 18 decks with dining room, hospital, grocery stores, and is larger than 300 meters in length, as well as the Empire State New York Building
Cartagena these days a real live American landing.
The 6,500 sailors who have filled the terraces, shops, and downtown streets, come aboard the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush, the most modern ship of the U.S. Navy, commissioned in 2009, and that is from Monday resting on a scale of joint training exercises with four ships, and mong them the Spanish frigate Admiral Juan de Borbon.
The George HW Bush will be outside our shores until Thursday, June 9, as explained by the Admiral Nora Tyson during a visit of the media to the carrier this morning.
The Admiral is the first woman to hold a post of its kind in the U.S. Navy.
The office has 5,500 sailors from the crew of aircraft carriers and air unit, marine and 1,000 over the four ships that complete the naval group.
18% of the crew are women working on equal footing with their peers, and many of them engaged as pilots.
In total, the George HW Bush carried 73 aircraft, including helicopters, radar and fighter jets, but their ability to support 90 aircraft total.
Cartagena is the second city in which stops after leaving the British port of Pourtsmouth, and then continue their exercises in the Mediterranean waters for a month, as explained by the commander of aircraft carriers, Brian E.
Luther.
LIFE ABOARD A FLOATING CITY
As a true floating city describe their crew to this colossus of the sea is 1,000 feet long, about 323 meters, the same length as one of the emblematic buildings of New York, the Empire State Building.
Its height stands at 78 meters, over 18 covers that have all the facilities to survive more than six months without stepping on land.
Food stores, grocery stores, recreation rooms, and a hospital where there are even doctors from various specialties are some of the amenities of the houseboat, as explained by the commander Luther.
In periods of sailing the ship is run like a large house: The kitchen serves some 18,000 meals a day, and rest, the sailors sleep in rooms with capacity for 40 people.
However, when calls are enjoying a special permit and can go out to eat, walk and spend the night in the city, something they have chosen many of them these days in Cartagena.
Every ten minutes there is a ferry that transports Marines aircraft carrier to dock Curra, where they have installed several tents that serve food and drinks.
There are buses every twenty minutes to take visitors to the center.
COLLABORAT "N WITH THE FRIGATE 'JUAN DE BORBA' N '
The George HW Bush. Is the tenth and last ship of the Nimitz Class and is named after the 41 ° President of the United States, who was also a naval aviator during the Second World War. A statue in his honor one of the decks chairs and have even dedicated a tribute room of their passage by the U.S. Navy.
The George HW Bush is working in joint exercises with the Spanish frigate Jean de Bourbon, by the commander Benigno Gonzalez-Aller Gros.
The Admiral Nora Tyson, has described as fabulous collaboration with the Spanish navy, which has a good level of knowledge, as Luther added the commander.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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