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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
One other location for the USN: Guam. On the old board (and Antenna's) I mention USS Constellation (CV-64) with her carrier group and CVW-2 embarked, and USS Essex (LHD-2) as being at Guam, intact, but with only enough fuel to return to CONUS. The only active ships out of Guam (besides a couple of interisland vessels used in the Marianas) were SSNs rotating in and out from Hawaii. One thing about that island: there's plenty of munitions bunkers there, so torpedoes are still available. Finding targets worth a Mark-48, now, that's another issue.
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You don't think Guam would've soaked up a Soviet MIRV, what with that nice dense concentration of bases?
- C.