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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/6/2015 9:03:28 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/6/2015 9:09:23 PM

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I really don't understand why he couldn't be BOTH brain damaged AND British:

http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/09/nato-briefing-british/

I always thought they were one in the same.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 12:06:03 AM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 10:34:52 AM

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Hi all,

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 12:22:27 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 12:58:28 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 1:24:08 PM

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I took yesterday off and I still feel wiped.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 1:44:28 PM

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Well, another Monday for this week... Everyone having issues... Feels like I am playing whack-a-mole.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 1:55:04 PM

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Well, another Monday for this week... Everyone having issues... Feels like I am playing whack-a-mole.

I missed Friday & Monday fighting off the plague. I sit down this morning to 6 v/m and 356 emails

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 2:09:46 PM

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Well, another Monday for this week... Everyone having issues... Feels like I am playing whack-a-mole.

I missed Friday & Monday fighting off the plague. I sit down this morning to 6 v/m and 356 emails

Well, if you delete the ones for 'male enhancement', will that get you below 300?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 2:21:58 PM

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First that cruiser in the Black Sea port, then the submarine on the rocks in Sweden, now this:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/07/world/russia-nuclear-submarine/index.html

Is there anything more dangerous to the Russian Navy than Ivan with a welding torch?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 3:21:09 PM

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First that cruiser in the Black Sea port, then the submarine on the rocks in Sweden, now this:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/07/world/russia-nuclear-submarine/index.html

Is there anything more dangerous to the Russian Navy than Ivan with a welding torch?

Everyone hits an occasional snag. Like those darned rowdy kids in the back distracting you from keeping your eyes on the road....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3025839/Royal-Navy-nuclear-submarine-suffers-500-000-damage-hitting-floating-ice-tracking-Russian-vessels.html

But a few weeks in the body and fender shop is much more amusing than some other instances of distractions...

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKBN0MY0UZ20150407

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In the transcript, the crew on several occasions ask people to be quiet or to leave the cockpit, and conversations suggest people in or around the cockpit were drinking beer, though there is no indication the crew themselves consumed alcohol.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 3:22:34 PM

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And on this day ion history...

http://ww2today.com/7-april-1945-us-planes-sink-yamato-worlds-largest-battleship

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 4:25:22 PM

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But a few weeks in the body and fender shop is much more amusing than some other instances of distractions...

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKBN0MY0UZ20150407

Yeah, yer right. That made me want to look up the Kursk's demise. Faulty training, preparations and poor crew training will git 'ya every time, won't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_%28K-141%29

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 4:29:48 PM

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But a few weeks in the body and fender shop is much more amusing than some other instances of distractions...

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKBN0MY0UZ20150407

Yeah, yer right. That made me want to look up the Kursk's demise. Faulty training, preparations and poor crew training will git 'ya every time, won't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_%28K-141%29

Cutting defense budgets and not giving due attention to your military will, indeed, do it every time. Although most members of the crew seemed to have behaved in an exemplary manner and finest traditions, it was an uphill battle and a sad chapter.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 4:32:06 PM

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That reminded me of the K-152 Nerpa incident from 2008. I still can't believe the Indians bought that thing in 2012...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 4:34:41 PM

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But a few weeks in the body and fender shop is much more amusing than some other instances of distractions...

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKBN0MY0UZ20150407

Yeah, yer right. That made me want to look up the Kursk's demise. Faulty training, preparations and poor crew training will git 'ya every time, won't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_%28K-141%29

Cutting defense budgets and not giving due attention to your military will, indeed, do it every time. Although most members of the crew seemed to have behaved in an exemplary manner and finest traditions, it was an uphill battle and a sad chapter.

Mercifully for most in compartments one and two, it was over with nearly instantaneously. From the summary of the event, the H2O2 fires ignited fires that got over 4000F and sympathetically triggered 5-7 additional torpedoes. Poor bastards never had a chance.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 4:53:26 PM

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That reminded me of the K-152 Nerpa incident from 2008. I still can't believe the Indians bought that thing in 2012...

How so? Most of the casualties in that case were civilians who, by definition, one might say, could not have been expected to have had the quick reflex responses of military training and constant drill.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 4:59:54 PM

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That reminded me of the K-152 Nerpa incident from 2008. I still can't believe the Indians bought that thing in 2012...

How so? Most of the casualties in that case were civilians who, by definition, one might say, could not have been expected to have had the quick reflex responses of military training and constant drill.

In that it was probable malfunction of a system on the submarine undergoing handover / sea trials / drills that led to the loss of life. After the initial typical efforts to blame the problem on externalities (a collision at sea for the Kursk, a crewman 'playing with the switches' on the K-152) and shift blame, the likely real story emerged years later.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 5:07:25 PM

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Well, accidents do happen. Unless its something endemic to Russian hardware?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 7:33:14 PM

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Well, accidents do happen. Unless its something endemic to Russian hardware?

Boiler plate tech, unless things have changed in the last 30 years that I am not aware of.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 7:34:03 PM

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Well, if you delete the ones for 'male enhancement', will that get you below 300?

Interestingly enough.....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 8:20:38 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 8:26:12 PM

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Well, accidents do happen. Unless its something endemic to Russian hardware?

Boiler plate tech, unless things have changed in the last 30 years that I am not aware of.

If by boilerplate you mean the shortest technological means to a given end, I certainly agree. But whereas you can more or less idiot proof a AK or an ATR, you can't say the same for a nuclear submarine.

The US military runs on maintenance, if not exactly spit and polish. Until and unless the Russian military reaches the same level of proficiency, accidents will continue to happen.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 10:06:41 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 10:23:47 PM

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Nice garage you have there!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/7/2015 10:37:56 PM

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Nice garage you have there!

Thats the room at the MB factory of Rastatt where they are present your new car...excellent, with good meal and so on..

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/8/2015 12:54:12 AM

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Or you could have went with a Japanase car. You would also get a great meal. Also a good nights sleep, a hakimachi, a cup of sake, a half a tank of gas and a map to Okinawa. But I think they also throw in the floor mats and a lifetime warrenty....for you. So a coin toss.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/8/2015 1:03:01 AM

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Here it seems like snowmobiles sales are trying to get another extended seaon. More snow.

60's for the weekend.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/8/2015 1:51:42 AM

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First that cruiser in the Black Sea port, then the submarine on the rocks in Sweden, now this:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/07/world/russia-nuclear-submarine/index.html

Is there anything more dangerous to the Russian Navy than Ivan with a welding torch?

Actually the USN's not immune to shipyard disasters. Look what happened to the USS Miami. And there's always the Sturgeon class that sank at the dock because they left a hose running!

The USSR had a long sad history of submarine disasters , usually nuclear related. Except for Thresher and Scorpion disasters our nuke problem has been relatively safe, but our diesels have had their share of mishaps.