News & Events
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CrossFit Garage Games On Yorktown’s Flightdeck Saturday
Posted: Sep 20, 2011This weekend will see the first South Carolina Garage Games series event hosted by CrossFit Integrity. This CrossFit event will be a two-day competition held in Charleston, South Carolina on September 24-25, 2011.
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Super Hornet Comic Video!
Posted: Sep 19, 2011This video was produced for the Strike Fighter Ball at NAS Oceana in 2009 and is so good I couldn’t wait until Video Thursday to post it.
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Navy v. South Carolina: Connections and Surprises
Posted: Sep 16, 2011This weekend the Naval Academy plays the University of South Carolina in football on ESPN. Names at the Naval Academy associated with great men and events such as Bainbridge, Decatur, Farragut, Hull, Porter and Rodgers were once led by a South Carolinian, Paul Hamilton.
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Video Thursday: New Medal Of Honor Recipient Marine Corps Sergeant Dakota Meyer
Posted: Sep 15, 2011At 2 PM EST today at the White House, President Obama will present the Medal of Honor to Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer for his actions in Afghanistan in 2009.
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USS Yorktown Hosts 43rd WMD-CST Training
Posted: Sep 14, 2011Last night the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point was not a site for tourists, scouts, students or a corporate party, but a training site for military professionals with a serious job of being prepared to protect the American homeland.
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Just Another Day On Yorktown At Patriots Point
Posted: Sep 13, 2011Yesterday some of the staff of Kindred Hospital in Charleston showed up on the flight deck of USS Yorktown to work on some corporate competition between the 76,000 employees of the Kindred Hospital system throughout the nation.
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Patriot Day At Patriots Point: The Power Of Memory
Posted: Sep 12, 2011Yesterday a crowd of 700-800 people silently watched and listened in Hangar Bay 3 on the USS Yorktown as over 9,000 names were read aloud. The names included all those who died on 9/11/01 and members of our armed forces killed in the War on Terror since 2001.
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Video Thursday: Patriot Day Remembrances
Posted: Sep 08, 2011This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America and the beginning of the War on Terror. Since that date in 2001 over 9000 Americans have lost […]
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Video Thursday: Brand New Blue Angel Video!
Posted: Sep 01, 2011Here is a brand new Blue Angel video! Enjoy the view! Featured is the Skipper and Citadel graduate, Captain Greg McWherter United States Navy. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/28135997 w=400&h=225] 2011 BLUE ANGELS […]
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Carolina's First Ship With Colonists: Adventure
Posted: Aug 31, 2011Lots of sights can be seen from the flight deck of Yorktown at Patriots Point…dolphins, manatees, alligators, C-17’s, Blue Angels, the Hunley…but today a replica of the proprietary colony of […]