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We got one too! Sure it's a little smaller, but we chose to be be more tactical in our game.

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What really amuses me about this one is that I didn't make a connection until seeing this but... My team is Team 87. There is an Aegis Equiped Destroyer, DDG 87. AND I work for the Lockheed Martin Division that provided the Aegis Combat System for DDG 87.

Spooky...

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So your Navy namesake is active, unlike 931 and 174. Cool!

I wonder how many active Navy ships carry FIRST team numbers?

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The 40's Delphi teams were represented back in the day:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/u.../bb/bb45cl.htm

Here's a more modern ship with the 48 designation, the USS Yorktown:

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Looks like there was an SS-237 named Trigger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Trigger_(SS-237)

"USS Trigger (SS-237) was a Gato-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the triggerfish, any of numerous deep-bodied fishes of warm seas having an anterior dorsal fin with two or three stout erectile spines."
Sweet.. a submarine.

Not so sweet..
http://www.csp.navy.mil/ww2boats/trigger.htm
89 Men were lost when it sunk and/or was attacked.

I'm supprised I didn't stumble across these articles before since I always randomly seek out things with the number 237 attached to them.

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I guess you could say our team number is kinda like a flying fish

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We have a ship too:



Interesting that it was named "Saginaw" - after a city only 90 miles from home. http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/161188.htm

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1114 was a pleasure boat taken over by the Navy to patrol the Texas coastline during World War I - ooooh lots of danger involved there. Soak in the sunshine and drink mint juleps all day. Sounds like something those Simbot mentors would do! ;)

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Wow, this is sweet!

While looking for 174 on a boat, I found 174 in graffiti on a wall and I thought, "Alright! Thats my team getting the word out." But I found a boat.

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I couldn't find one. Does this mean I'll fail at life in 2007? Depressing.

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Well, I looked but also couldn't find a Navy vessel sporting 461.

A by-product of the search was three pages of integral calculus, seemingly unrelated to 461 except by the course number. The derivation shows why the transcendental number pi appears in the formula for the normal (Gaussian) probability density function commonly called the bell curve. So I guess 461 rings a bell ... :D

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The SS-228 was an American submarine during World War II.

The USS Drum (SS-228):



And then there are the railroad locomotives:





And then there are license plates:

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Niagara FIRST Teams are ready to go for 2007.....;) Would you expect anything less??? (Note they aren't identical triplets, but have the same pedigree)

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I type in 939 in google's image search and all I get is the CPU socket. Oh well mayby I need more google practice.