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This Little Baby Boat May Be the Smallest Ship in the Navy
www.popularmechanics.com ^ | Aug 25, 2020 | By Kyle Mizokami

Posted on 10/13/2020 12:33:19 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/13/2020 12:33:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

The Boomin Beaver

No comment.


2 posted on 10/13/2020 12:37:07 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Red Badger

A little dinghy.

The S.S. Anthony Weiner?


3 posted on 10/13/2020 12:37:07 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: dp0622
Oh, a hVrris ad? 😂🙌📴
4 posted on 10/13/2020 12:39:03 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

The cutest little dinghy in the Navy...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuG4SeLgRMY


5 posted on 10/13/2020 12:39:51 PM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Red Badger

The Biden.
Our newest aircraft carrier under Biden Harris


6 posted on 10/13/2020 12:41:09 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: Red Badger

“The good news is we’re giving you command of your own ship.”


7 posted on 10/13/2020 12:42:00 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Where does the CIWS mount?


8 posted on 10/13/2020 12:42:06 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Red Badger
Isn't there a book about that boat?


9 posted on 10/13/2020 12:42:30 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Flick Lives

Lol!


10 posted on 10/13/2020 12:43:24 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Red Badger

That’s gotta really suck. Join the Navy, survive boot, go to officer school, get your boat pilot license, work the chain to get the promotions and you finally get your command and hand you the keys to a bathtub toy.


11 posted on 10/13/2020 12:44:45 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Red Badger

For Barbara Mikulski, no doubt.


12 posted on 10/13/2020 12:45:58 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Red Badger
This is the old school logging version of a cowboy's cutting horse.

As a kid growing up on the Washington coast, we'd often go to a sawmill pond and watch these boom boats (a connected string of floating logs surrounding rafts of logs is called a “boom”)

The operator had so much control with an almost center drive, that he could spin the boat around on it's axis.

13 posted on 10/13/2020 12:46:24 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote while it is still legal! And often.)
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To: discostu

Hey, captain’s bars are captain’s bars................


14 posted on 10/13/2020 12:46:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger
I would have taken an old PBR out of mothballs and made it ready for service...it would be a better boat than that thing...or just put a trolling motor on a dink


15 posted on 10/13/2020 12:49:27 PM PDT by Bobalu ("You can't serve papers on a rat, Baby Sister. You gotta kill him or let him be." --Rooster Cogburn)
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To: Flick Lives

How is Quinton McHale ever supposed to fit aboard THAT?


16 posted on 10/13/2020 12:50:41 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Red Badger

That is so adorable. I want to drive it!

Toot toot!!!


17 posted on 10/13/2020 12:53:27 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump)
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To: jjotto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJ3M6L7O9I


18 posted on 10/13/2020 1:00:12 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (This space vacant until further notice in compliance with social distancing 'guidelines')
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To: Red Badger

Can the squids who drive these things legitimately put “Commanded a Naval Vessel” on their resumes?


19 posted on 10/13/2020 1:02:10 PM PDT by null and void (Surely there must be someone on FR who makes bricks! Contact me if that's you!)
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To: Red Badger

I think I printed a few of those on my 3d printer...


20 posted on 10/13/2020 1:04:11 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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