FReeper Foxhole - Military Related News in Review - May 12, 2003

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[snippy_about_it]

U.S. Navy Warship Conducts Rescue At Sea
Story Number: NNS030512-21
Release Date: 5/12/2003 4:24:00 PM

From Constellation Strike Group Public Affairs

ABOARD USS CONSTELLATION, At Sea (NNS) -- While transiting home on their 21st and final deployment in the Arabian Gulf and after participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom, USS Constellation (CV 64) received a distress call from an Indonesian inter-island ferry boat carrying civilian passengers in the Banda Sea.

USS Milius (DDG 65), also transiting home with the Constellation Strike Group, was in a position to assist, and was tasked by Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 7, embarked on Constellation, to investigate and render assistance to the vessel. Full story

[Al B.]

After a 16-month dry-dock overhaul period, the "Big E" (CVN-65) was back in service and at sea last week.  A scheduled "photo-op" of the Navy's oldest and newest nuclear carriers (Ronald Reagan) sailing together off the Va. Capes didn't come off because of bad weather.  According to the Big E's captain, the ship is in "her best condition in decades."

USS Enterprise (CVN 65) Back At Sea

Northrop Grumman Successfully Redelivers USS Enterprise (CVN 65)

[snippy_about_it]

That's great news Al. Thanks for posting it here.



As Master Chief Oldknow put it, “Sailors belong on a ship, and a ship belongs out to sea.”

[HiJinx]

Oh, yeah! A Monday meeting to initiate damage-control as a result of the meeting on the previous Friday, wherein the gov't customer killed a project because two bureaucrats didn't realize they weren't doing their jobs...

If I didn't have FR as a release valve, well...

[snippy_about_it]

Don't cha' just love working with bureaucrats. :)

It's enough to make your head spin.

[SAMWolf]

Well I'm on my way to have a meeting with my dentist. See you later this evening

Panzer Elite Rules!

[HiJinx]

Ain't that the truth...

Well, I've looked all over for a story that was in our local paper yesterday, and can't find it...so I'll paraphrase.

A young sailor (a 'shooter) from the Abraham Lincoln came home on leave for Mother's Day. She was put in for, and recieved, an impact award of the Navy Achievement Medal for actions she took on the flight deck during this last deployment.

A 'shooter is a troubleshooter, they have 15-20 seconds to look over an aircraft before it launches. This young lady was making her rounds when another 'shooter got caught in the back blast of an F/A-18. She threw herself on top of him and grabbed a tie-down to keep him from getting blown overboard.

Aren't our sailors wonderful?

[snippy_about_it]

Wonderful, yes yes yes!

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Yeah...sure...okay Sam.

[Graewoulf]

Bump.

[Myrddin]

I received a letter from my son today. He is serving with a medical unit in Kuwait. The letter was dated April 28th. He had to pick up 8 wounded U.S. soldiers. Two from his own camp. The two from his camp were severely wounded. One of them picked up some unexploded ordnance and placed it in the in the cargo pocket next to his right knee. It detonated and blew off his knee. It also set off all the ammo in the 30 round magazine of his M-16 rifle. That blew his right arm off. His buddy was standing nearby and took a piece of shrapnel in the brain. His mental faculties were fading fast. My son transported both of them to the ER to be stabilized. No word on whether the guy with the blown off knee will be able to keep his leg. The guy with the shrapnel in his brain was evacuated via chopped to a hospital with a CAT scanner. It was a very sobering day.

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Myrddin for sharing your son's letter. Those of us at home can't forget there is still a war going on and still many dangers.

I'll have to let our veterans or current duty military comment on putting unexploded ordnance in your pocket.

Be sure and let your son know we thank him for his service and you too as a proud mom!

He wouldn't happen to be in the 50th MED CO would he?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good evening everyone. Fabulous thread, Snippy. Thanks so much

click on the graphic

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Victoria, always good to see and 'hear' you.

This is one of my favorite oldies.

[Victoria Delsoul]

You're quite welcome, Snippy. My pleasure; I love oldies, too.

[snippy_about_it]

I wonder if Sam's back from the dentist. *cough*

I found a new toy chore he might want to think about.

Pictures

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[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL!!! You're so funny. I think he'll like that, hahahaha.

[Myrddin]

CSSG-15 Foxtrot CO, 4th MED BN

[snippy_about_it]

I just thought he might be "in the mood". A trip to the toy store dentist can be rough.

Clic on zee pic

[PhilDragoo]

This is Bobby Darin's Di Dia 150. I saw it at a car show.

No car shows the exuberance and confidence of America in the 1950s quite like this example of Car Culture. It took four men nearly seven years to build this car of hand-formed aluminum on a tubular frame. It’s no wonder the materials alone cost over $93,000, and the whole cost, including labor, was $150,000.

The car's fins are four feet high and the body is extra long, low, and wide. It has thirty coats of translucent pearlized paint with crushed diamond dust in it for sparkle. The car was featured in Bobby Darin's movie "Too Late Blues," and was donated in 1970 after 10 years of film and publicity use.

Bobby Darin had rheumatic fever and knew he would die. He gave his life that extra gusto we all recall. He left at 37 in 73.

I had rheumatic fever at five just as cortisone was being used for it, and so survived.

Faced with death, heroes respond with something extra, throwing themselves on a comrade to save him; throwing themselves on a grenade--

What an extraordinary corps has recently made history in Iraq, and continues in heroic fashion.

Sahar, a teacher at a school in Abu Grahib, Iraq, helps a girl write the albhabet on the board on the school's opening day on April 26, 2003. The school has been closed down since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Sadaam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby) (Released)

Photo by: STAFF SGT. CHERIE A. THURLBY, 1ST COMBAT CAMERA Record ID No. (VIRIN): 030426-F-7203T-018.JPG

U.S. Army Capt. Herb Joliot, commander 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, talks to Iraqi children on the opening day of a school in Abu Grahib, Iraq on April 26, 2003. The school has been closed down since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Sadaam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby) (Released)

Photo by: STAFF SGT. CHERIE A. THURLBY, 1ST COMBAT CAMERA Record ID No. (VIRIN): 030426-F-7203T-012.JPG

Members of a Combat Control Team (CCT) walk through the rubble at one of Sadaam Hussein's palaces on April 25, 2003. The Combat Control Team (CCT) is currently assigned to the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Baghdad International Airport is a primary base of operations for U.S. troops, cargo and humanitarian airlift for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Sadaam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby) (Released)

Photo by: STAFF SGT. CHERIE A. THURLBY, 1ST COMBAT CAMERA Record ID No. (VIRIN): 030425-F-7203T-009

Schmuck Hussein built himself lavish palaces while the children of Iraq went without food and medicine.

May he roast his stomach in hell for seven times seven years. Rinse, repeat.

GOD BLESS THE COALITION HEROES
They shall be known as major dudes and dudettes.