Posted on 07/28/2020 5:19:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
A new video from the United States Navy only runs for a little over two minutes, and ends with two words.
Nevertheless, it is a powerful video that hints at the modern challenges our Navy faces, and the professionalism with which our sailors rise to the occasion.
The video was released Monday on the Navy’s official Twitter account.
In a post accompanying the clip, the Navy wrote: “24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Your [Navy] is on watch and ready around the world.”
Click the pic below to go to the Navy twitter feed...
Sailors are shown running night missions, taking oaths in the field, delivering supplies and performing practice water rescues, hinting at the Navy’s role as a varied and adaptable force.
Midway through the video, the mood shifts in a big way. The video turns to Navy firepower — ordnance being detonated underwater, a machine gun lighting up the ocean night with a punishing stream of tracer fire and a flyover formation of strike fighters and electronic warfare planes.
It was a great video, and not clickbait.
Sheesh.
You do have a point. Its mention in this particular thread, one that points us to what is, I think, widely seen as a patriotic portrayal of the USN, might have been better left unsaid.
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LOVE this!!!
You can't see or detect them, DUH!
Thank you for posting. BUMP!
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My pleasure. Glad so many liked it. It’s a refreshing change from the horror in our cities and a great reminder of all those who sacrifice so much for us.
It may have been me! I was in a Moffett squadron from 1973 thru 1975. (Good grief I’m old!)
“Nope, not going to subscribe to Twitter to see a video.”
You don’t have to subscribe to see the video.
Nope, too early. We moved under the flight path in 1983.
I was always amazed by you guys heading out over the Pacific for those long recon patrols. Well done! Bravo.
If you failed to get goose bumps watching/listening to this video, call the morgue. The End.
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You are pathetic. It’s a magnificent 2 minute film put out by the US Navy that warms the hearts of true Americans.
But not you, you cold-hearted miserable cretin.
Hush blog pimp
“Having been a P-3 airborne ASW operator during the 70s thru the earl 90s, all submarines were identified only as “target #x”. Just sayin’.”
Same for us. We included surface ships, also. Aircraft, not so much. The only way we would be able to target an aircraft would have been to launch a ballistic missile right underneath them. Timing is everything, dontcha’ know. :)
“Thanks for your service shipmate.”
#youtoo
I have always been amused by the back and forth between surface, sub, and airborne units...:)
The spice of life! (unless it is a shooting war...)
My Navy could use some good press these days.
“The spice of life! (unless it is a shooting war...)”
Yes. It only works if you’re all on the same side.
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