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Royal Navy ordered to turn ship's guns(blanks),they were pointing at Michelle Obama's hotel room
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Posted on 10/15/2011 6:36:51 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch
But she is the Modern Evita, the Earth Mother, the one we all love because she cares for us when we are too stupid to do it ourselves!
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:17:36 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
To: Red_Devil 232
Interesting that the SS is named as the reason....dollars to donuts the first Wookie looked out her window and saw the guns pointed in her direction and got paranoid and made the SS request this reposition of the missiles
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:21:06 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
To: InvisibleChurch
More detail on the death of
Lt. Sara Hellawell. I thought it was odd the circumstances weren't included in the original article.
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:24:44 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: InvisibleChurch
"broadside has a whole new meaning"
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:25:59 AM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: InvisibleChurch
She seems to be the type of paranoid that gets upset sitting down to dinner if all the setting’s knives and forks are pointing at her.
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:32:34 AM PDT
by
C210N
(zer0 - a Marxonist spreading the flames of obamunism wherever he goes.)
To: Red_Devil 232
Anything with an exhaust as big as Moochies, has got to be hot.
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:35:41 AM PDT
by
IMR 4350
To: InvisibleChurch
the silly fat cow wasn't in the top floor Presidential suite???
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:36:59 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
They were positioned in the standard rest position. They were not turned in the direction of the hotel.
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:41:41 AM PDT
by
Bruinator
("For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things an atheistic question")
To: InvisibleChurch
Could not have hurt her, the brits are out of wookie rounds, fired them all at daffy.
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posted on
10/15/2011 7:42:12 AM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrat)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Yeah, I feel for her, I had the same problem when I was taking vacations on the taxpayer dime during the Obama Recession.
Thanks InvisibleChurch.
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posted on
10/15/2011 10:19:54 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: org.whodat
In the missile world there are “Pretty Birds” and there are “Warshots”. Pretty Birds are used for exercising the system and for display for various occasions: official visitors, entering or leaving port, equipment checks, etc. They have no warheads or propellant — they're inert chunks of metal and fiberglass with some internal electronics for system monitoring. The USN paints our Pretty Birds a light blue with white fins and trim; the RN paints theirs all red.
Warshots are painted WHITE. There is a brown 2-inch band painted around the propellant section that indicates a live rocket motor. There is a 2-inch band painted around the warhead section. A blue band indicates the warhead is inert; a yellow band (sometimes with the explosive filler in black letters) indicates a LIVE warhead.
The Head Wookies’ Secret Service people should have known this and why the RN ship was “dressed” for a special occasion. This is not a state secret.
As an aside, during the mid-1980s, a USN missile cruiser and a Russian missile cruiser were in a friendly (neutral) port for a port call. The daily routine was to exercise the ship's combat systems for equipment checks. In this case, the Russian cruiser was aft of the American vessel.
One day, about half way through the port call, the Americans began their 0830 routine of running equipment checks. Someone in the missile house selected the wrong cells and loaded the launcher rails with two Warshots instead of the usual Pretty Birds. The on-deck safety observer immediately informed the missile house of the error and the Wardhots were quickly pulled back into the missile house, but not before there were a lot of binoculars staring at the loaded launcher from the Russian ship.
The American skipper called his Russian opposite number and offered an embarrassed apology that was accepted. Both skippers agreed to suspend weapons’ exercises for the rest of the port call.
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posted on
10/15/2011 10:36:09 AM PDT
by
MasterGunner01
(To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
To: InvisibleChurch
Why is she in England (again)? I thought the Obamas hate the Brits.
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posted on
10/15/2011 12:38:08 PM PDT
by
hattend
(If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
To: org.whodat
To: MasterGunner01
One day, about half way through the port call, the Americans began their 0830 routine of running equipment checks. Someone in the missile house selected the wrong cells and loaded the launcher rails with two Warshots instead of the usual Pretty Birds. The on-deck safety observer immediately informed the missile house of the error and the Wardhots were quickly pulled back into the missile house, but not before there were a lot of binoculars staring at the loaded launcher from the Russian ship. I had a similar situation happen to me running DSOT on a DDG in port at San Diego. The safety observer didn't catch that live birds, rather than TSAMs, were under the launcher arms. As they were coming up, he SCREAMED to stop the loading. There we sat, with two live birds halfway in the magazine and halfway onto the launcher. The only way to cycle them back down was to bring them fully up on the rails. I think it may have taken an act of Congress (or perhaps divine intervention) to get the permission needed to do that. Definitely the most interesting DSOT I ever ran. (And yes, I did catch hell for letting it happen.)
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posted on
10/15/2011 2:44:13 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Bob
In the late 1960s or early 1970s, one of the GMG1 gunner's mates on a Forrest Sherman-class DD discovered he had a cheating spouse. [Forrest Sherman DDs had auto-loading Mk 42 5-inch guns.] As it turned out, he could see the bedroom window of his apartment from the one man control (OMC) station of the Mk 42 gun mount from the pier at 32nd street in San Diego. He decided to give his cheating spouse and her boyfriend a Sunday morning wake up call.
He figured that she'd call her boyfriend over for some “horizontal mambo” while he stood duty over the weekend. He had the gun loaded to the transfer tray with a BL&P projectile (blind loaded and plugged practice ammo). Fortunately, the weekend duty section people stopped him before he could put his plan into reality. Wife and boyfriend were very fortunate the wake up call wasn't a 70 pound projectile at 2,900 feet per second flying through the bedroom. Now that IS coitus interruptus!
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posted on
10/15/2011 6:06:30 PM PDT
by
MasterGunner01
(To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
To: Leep
Noone wants to see Mrs OBAMA die
He does?
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posted on
10/16/2011 10:59:10 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
One of my bestiary of pet peeves. That, and ‘prolly’.
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posted on
10/17/2011 4:22:48 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
One of my bestiary of pet peeves. That, and prolly
Seems to happen alot . . .
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posted on
10/17/2011 5:25:19 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
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