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10 missing after US Navy destroyer collides with merchant ship off Singapore
Yahoo Noose and Propaganda ^ | August 21, 2017 | LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN

Posted on 08/21/2017 6:45:25 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

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To: Navy Patriot

You didn’t see my other post

They are anchored


41 posted on 08/21/2017 11:16:14 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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I won't pay to read the Wall Street Journal, so I wasn't able to find the referenced anchoring quote.

I did read the headline and first paragraph, but didn't spend too much time with it as I don't like pages that lead off with videos.

42 posted on 08/21/2017 11:19:00 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: dila813

Yes, I did not see your post on anchoring before I answered, and I just forgot to mention that I did open the WSJ’s story from my general search previous to your post link, but could not reference the anchoring farther down the article.


43 posted on 08/21/2017 11:29:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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Could be like the 007 movie, Tomorrow Never Dies? Maybe someone hacked the barge’s navigation system and put them on an intercept path, lol.... But the catch is, they would need to know the Navy’s path, and that is definitely classified.


44 posted on 08/21/2017 1:32:10 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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Maybe someone hacked the barge’s navigation system and put them on an intercept path, lol...

I see you're tryin' to have a little fun with me, but seriously...

The Oil/Chemical Tanker Alnic MC is more than twice the size and less than 5% as maneuverable as the McCain, and has the right of way at sea.

It would be effectively impossible for the Alnic MC to run down the McCain with or without intent, UNLESS

The McCain had a major dereliction of duty, discipline and seamanship among the Captain and several crew members, or the McCain suffered a catastrophic failure of the navigation and collision avoidance systems AND a failure of crew discipline and training in emergency response.

The Navy has just signaled a concern over the entire Navy and not just the McCain, which means they are concerned over similar EQUIPMENT on other US Naval ships.

45 posted on 08/21/2017 3:55:32 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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Indeed, it would be hard to believe or near impossible for it to be some type of hack to their geo-systems - as many other things would have had to go wrong on both ships too.

Hopefully they will get is sorted out.... seeing our servicemen and women die as such is horrible. It shouldn’t be happening in the 21st century.


46 posted on 08/22/2017 5:43:52 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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The Captain thought he could make it in time.

He didn’t. He got hit just before being clear. The container ship was making better speed than he thought


47 posted on 08/22/2017 5:49:24 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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