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December 4th 05, 04:02 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:
KØHB wrote:
wrote

"Old Ironsides" is a museum piece. A fully operational museum piece that
actually sails every few years, but a museum piece nonetheless. Her main
functions are educational and historic, not military.

Her "main function" is to serve as the Flagship of the Navy. That's a military
function, not a "museum" function. Certainly she also serves as a "history
lesson incarnate", but that is not her "main" function. If it were, she'd be
property of the National Park Service, not the Department of Defense.

Well, Hans, it looks like we have different definitions of "museum
piece" and
"military function". I'll defer to your definitions because the USS
Constitution
is, in fact, the Flagship of the US Navy and is fully operational, with
a full time
crew. She just doesn't sail very often.

I wonder what her unit type code (UTC) is, and what her position is in
the time phased force deployment document (TPFDD). Which war plan is
she found in?

Sounds more like a yacht club for a service mired in tradition.