Sure. Do you really believe a US Navy ship with 300 people could keep that secret? Your husband’s ‘military friends’ are morons.
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My thoughts too. Military men are genuine experts when it comes to scuttlebutt. No offense meant, merely an observation.
I agree.
But here’s the funny thing I’ve observed in ten years of being married to a Marine:
When Mr. Megan and his friends get together they do indeed tell a lot of embellished stories. Usually accompanied by chortles and laughter.
But as the Scotch starts to flow the stories start to get darker, many details are unspoken but acknowledged by grave references to people and places, and the technical details sometimes come out and I get glances wondering if I heard or understood something. I usually have no idea what they’re talking about.
I’ve learned a lot over the years and part of what I’ve learned is to know when they’re being serious. And one of them was involved in something to do with the TWA 800 investigation and he says he thought it was a US Navy missile because there were people in the US Navy who were acting guilty as if it was the US Navy.
He also said that he thought it was a US missile because the US missiles of the time had enough power to take down a big aircraft while the Russian missiles didn’t.
Seems a reasonable calculation to me.