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You can actually bid on US Navy ships that are being released from the inactive reserve fleet. There are still a few of the WWII light carriers left in the roster. The stipulation in the bids is that they are to be cut up for scrap, not used to start your own private navy. Most of these ships end up being towed to China, Indonesia, or India to ship breakers. Then the metal is remelted and turned into plate steel that is resold to various manufactuer's.
As was the case in pre WWII, the joke among the troops was they were afrfaid they would be killed by scrapnel made from an old Buick.
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