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Don't give up the ship! - Unless you're in Obama's Navy
US Defense Watch ^ | January 15, 2016 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 01/15/2016 6:26:00 PM PST by pboyington

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To: driftdiver

>>Elected twice

Not twice. Thousands of times. In my own state, Corinne Brown gets re-elected every two years. The list of senators and congressmen who push our nation towards this dystopian Progressive future is very long.

The Stoopid is Real. They aren’t the outlier or statistical anomaly anymore. Now, the intelligent person who can draw a conclusion from a group of facts is the anomaly and we are outnumbered by the people who think that memes on Facebook are intelligent discourse.


61 posted on 01/16/2016 5:34:07 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: manc; armydawg505; ThePatriotsFlag; forgotten man; Dagnabitt

I heard one news story that the two riverine boats were surrounded and surrender demanded by 2 or 3 much larger Iranian boats mounting 40mm and 76mm guns to the riverine boats .50cal mgs. Sounds like a Navy Lieutenant being put in a position of ‘surrender or die.’ And as a deliberate provocation by the Iranians, rather then ‘fuel problems’ or ‘broken GPS.’ It is just the type of insult the Iranians like to do, especially to tweak bh0 on the day of making the State of the Union speech.


62 posted on 01/16/2016 6:57:16 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Been there done that - Army infantry with CIB.

They should have fought. No naval officer should give up his ship to a foreign power without resistance

As a minimum there needs to be an Article 32 investigation. Unless this young officer recieved specific orders from his lawful chain of command to stand down and surrender his command to the Iranians he should face Court's Martial. He if DID recieve orders to surrender it should be published who gave them.

63 posted on 01/16/2016 7:27:43 AM PST by Qatar-6
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To: GreyFriar

The only boats in any photo I have seen wouldn’t pass for a bass boat in this country.


64 posted on 01/16/2016 5:46:15 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: Jimmy Valentine

I heard the Marine on duty in the Naval Academy Chapel reported that John Paul Jones shook in his coffin. Another rumor is that Oliver Hazard Perry’s battle flag has been taken down in Bancroft Hall.


65 posted on 01/17/2016 4:41:33 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother ("Hillary Clinton is a congenital liar." - William Safire)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

The story will eventually come out. The lieutenant commanding is screwed no matter what. The Navy won’t let him command a rubber duck in a bathtub.


66 posted on 01/17/2016 5:06:14 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: forgotten man
This whole thing stinks to high heaven....

I'm sure as the sun will rise today that Obama, Jarrett, Kerry and the Ayatollahs are up to their eyeballs in skulduggery...

Way too many Iranian / USA events in the last few days that need the dots connected...

I'm sure congress will get right on it...(puking)

67 posted on 01/17/2016 5:11:43 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Popman
The ship is dead in the water.

The guns are filthy and rusty.

The ship is aging and no longer sea worthy.

The bulk heads are broken.

The rudder is twisted.

The Skipper is a novice punk.

The crew are demoralized.

The Commander & Chief is a fool.

America is undermined.

America is in a mine field.

Am I referring to the US Navy today after nearly 8 years of Obama devastation?

Yes, but as for the ship, so goes the nation...

68 posted on 01/17/2016 5:16:13 AM PST by Netz
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To: Netz

Trump will build a new Navy! A navy second to none. A fleet that will help re-vitalize the nation. We need a fleet that can do the job of projecting power. New classes of ships—like small Drone carriers, rail Gun Battleships, non-nuke attack subs, deep divers and quiet. A cool presidental Yacht (armed too least any terrorist get any bad ideas). Some new ice breakers, some Troop transports and merchant ships. And lastly-—a Tall ship. The USS United States for the cadets of Anapolis to train upon! We have the USS Eagle but that’s for the coast guard.


69 posted on 01/17/2016 5:28:37 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Great dreams, hope they pan out but I a not sure the nation has the stomach for a Reagan type of massive national Star Wars type effort.

The Iranians, Russians, NORKS, Hezbollah, ISIS, ISIL, Al-Qaeida, Chinese and others are set to damage the US as much as possible BEFORE the November elections so this year will be a very dangerous one.
They saw how President Ovomit and John Toilet Curry all apologized for the Navy incident and they laughed their robes off, moved to tears form the insanity that is President Ovomit & Co.

70 posted on 01/17/2016 6:51:13 AM PST by Netz
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