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To: Robe
This was the first attack of US Sailors in 200 years and Obambi hasn't said diddly yet.. What a Leader we have.. Disgraceful!
570 posted on 04/08/2009 10:27:24 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ("Hey Liberals.. We don't lower our standards, so up yours!" - Andrew Wilkow show)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

Pirated attack that is


571 posted on 04/08/2009 10:27:57 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ("Hey Liberals.. We don't lower our standards, so up yours!" - Andrew Wilkow show)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

Not 200 years. I was in Subic in May 1975 when the SS Mayaguez, a container ship owned by Sealand, a U.S. company was captured by Cambodian pirates and taken to an island at Kampong Saom.

The U.S. sent Marines from Thailand and ships, including the USS Coral Sea aircraft carrier, from Subic to retrieve the ship and crew. A civilian volunteer recovery crew from a civilian ship in Subic boarded the Mayaguez from a Destroyer that went alongside.

The Mayaguez crew, which had been removed from the ship, were being returned to the ship by boat after the Cambodians realized they were being attacked by the U.S.Marines, Navy ships and aircraft. The Mayaguez and crew made it out intact but the Marines took heavy casualties when their heliocopters landed on the island, which was heavily defended.

Google the SS Mayaguez to read about the whole fluster cluck.


633 posted on 04/08/2009 11:33:52 AM PDT by topsail
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