It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: Libertas on July 13, 2020, 12:20:10 PM
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https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/uss-bonhomme-richard-on-fire-at-naval-base-san-diego/509-6aec1280-f709-4e88-b9ee-2d393f942467 (https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/uss-bonhomme-richard-on-fire-at-naval-base-san-diego/509-6aec1280-f709-4e88-b9ee-2d393f942467)
Cause remains under investigation...
BLM/pAntifa sympathizers in the crew???
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Wouldn't be in the least surprised.
Our ships are not safe under the Navy's care while underway (or is that 'underweigh'?), now they're not safe at dock either.
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Wouldn't be in the least surprised.
Our ships are not safe under the Navy's care while underway (or is that 'underweigh'?), now they're not safe at dock either.
Underway is correct...and yes...Bases, ships, planes...nothing is safe from terrorists of all nefarious stripes...Mohammadan, Black Supremacist, Anrachist, Communist...
The Sh!t is coming...and coming fast.
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In 1961( 1 year prior to HS graduation) I had to go thru an anal exam to join the USMC. Now wear a turban and your in. ::curtsy4:: The new emblem.
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Dad? ;D
Seriously...you are probably old enough to be my poppa! ::thumbsup::
And the ship is still burning...and the REMFs are still not saying jack squat about the cause...making it almost certain to be a terrorist/anarchist initiated event!
::outrage:: ::angry:: ::cussing:: ::pullhair::
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Dad? ;D
Seriously...you are probably old enough to be my poppa! ::thumbsup::
And the ship is still burning...and the REMFs are still not saying jack squat about the cause...making it almost certain to be a terrorist/anarchist initiated event!
::outrage:: ::angry:: ::cussing:: ::pullhair::
OK youngster!
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Dad? ;D
Seriously...you are probably old enough to be my poppa! ::thumbsup::
And the ship is still burning...and the REMFs are still not saying jack squat about the cause...making it almost certain to be a terrorist/anarchist initiated event!
::outrage:: ::angry:: ::cussing:: ::pullhair::
OK youngster!
If you could see me you would laugh...seriously you'd need help getting off the floor...
::hysterical::
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Dad? ;D
Seriously...you are probably old enough to be my poppa! ::thumbsup::
And the ship is still burning...and the REMFs are still not saying jack squat about the cause...making it almost certain to be a terrorist/anarchist initiated event!
::outrage:: ::angry:: ::cussing:: ::pullhair::
OK youngster!
If you could see me you would laugh...seriously you'd need help getting off the floor...
::hysterical::
Are you calling him old and feeble??
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Dad? ;D
Seriously...you are probably old enough to be my poppa! ::thumbsup::
And the ship is still burning...and the REMFs are still not saying jack squat about the cause...making it almost certain to be a terrorist/anarchist initiated event!
::outrage:: ::angry:: ::cussing:: ::pullhair::
OK youngster!
If you could see me you would laugh...seriously you'd need help getting off the floor...
::hysterical::
Are you calling him old and feeble??
My my aren't we all touchy....
'Soup, seasoned perhaps...feeble? Pah! A full-on belly-busting-guffaw has been known to cause temporary loss of motor-control...
Or does that only happen to me? ::foilhathelicopter::
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Long ago I read a book about women in the military. It said in the US Navy all sailors are damage control and women suck at that, in part because they cannot lug around hoses and pumps.
When I read that US navy ships run into each other i suspect women sailors or affirmative action generally.
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I was fortunate, I served when women primarily only had shore assignments...there were a few coastal patrol squadrons I think that had a bunch of gals on it...and I think for smaller craft it's not a big deal...but to your point...even being in the air-wing, once deployed on a carrier everybody takes part in damage control drills...because when the SHTF and fires are raging and things are exploding and people are screaming dying and wounded...people still ambulatory have to have it in muscle-memory and reptilian-brain or all perish. You get to the point where steel is burning and you have major problems. And you have to be able to help tote big-ass hoses, don breathing apparatus and retrieve wounded crew mates. Some can probably handle it...maybe 1/3 I reckon...the rest won't be able to handle much of that...which means more burden on those who can...and if too many of the able-bodied drop...well, might as well don a vest, pop a raft and abandon ship...
IMO it would have been best to limit women to coastal craft and in the blue water fleet cap the number so that these dilution of capability issues can be mitigated.
But, that didn't happen and isn't likely to occur...the genie is out of the bottle and if there is a lesson to be learned it will have to come the hard way...