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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The small arms fire fell well short of the U.S. ship which speeded up to evade the skiffs.

Yep, nothing discourages pirates like running away. "Oh, Abdulla, let us give up this life of pirating, because chasing the Navy is sooooo exhausting - are you sure that was an American flag and not a French one?"

10 posted on 05/07/2009 6:55:26 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Hodar; BubbaBasher; lormand; Boston Blackie; All

See #9.
“USS Whatever” is a commissioned warship, operated by United States Navy military enlisted sailors and commissioned officers, and armed.

“USNS Whatever” is a cargo ship, owned by the United States Navy, operated by civilian employees thereof, and unarmed.


28 posted on 05/07/2009 7:01:31 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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