Moondawggie
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Joined: 10/18/2003 From: Placer County CA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake Two active duty carriers and replenishment ships moored at Coronado behind a huge screen of docking cushions (I am sure this isn't the right word but you know what I mean) about 100-200 yds from the ships. I suspect there were an anti-Cole type measure. Cap, those "cushions"are the 2010 equivalent of the "Torpedo Nets" that the powers-that-be didn't think were needed at Pearl Harbor in 1941. (I know, some of my green friends think they are there to catch the polluting fuel the USN deliberately discharges into the Bay every morning to wreck the ecosystem, but they're wrong.) The booms don't look like much (nor do Icebergs!), but if some "misunderstood victim of American Imperialism" procured a Cigarette Boat in Ensenada, loaded it with HE, and drove it north at full speed through San Diego Bay, aiming amidships at one of those Nimitz-class big boys, those booms will complicate his plans in a heartbeat. Nice to see that my Navy actually learns from past mistakes! Hey, do take Stalker Girl on a tour of the Midway, but be prepared for flack. I loved the tour; reminded me of my own Indian Ocean "vacation" a long time ago. Of course, my 21-year old daughter took a look at the berthing spaces for the crew, asked me, "Did you have to live like that?" When I answered proudly "Yes," she replied (as only a young Obama voter can), "Gee, Dad, it sucked to be you!" Haze gray and underway, Cap! Attrit those LYBs some more! Sorry about Jerry. Good job trying to save him.
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"The Yankees got all the smart ones, and look where it got them." General George Pickett, the night before Gettysburg
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