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To: RoosterRedux

As Brandon says, buy a shotgun!

Let those boys and girls get up on deck and work on their shooting skills.


2 posted on 12/18/2021 8:34:26 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: nascarnation

Phalanx!


8 posted on 12/18/2021 8:41:40 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: nascarnation

PULL!


15 posted on 12/18/2021 8:54:37 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: nascarnation
Let those boys and girls get up on deck and work on their shooting skills.

Now why didn't the Navy think of that?

This log entry also has a reference to "SCAT," which likely stands for Small Craft Action Team. Speaking to Business Insider last year, Navy Lt. J. G. Frank Smeeks, an anti-terrorism officer, explained that "SCAT is a team consisting of crew-served weapons machine gun operators that provide 360-degree coverage of the ship, an anti-terrorism tactical watch officer and a gunnery liaison officer. They are called away as a pre-planned response to threats the ship may face like a small boat attack or low, slow flyer." (Note that in naval parlance, "calling away" refers to sending sailors to their posts.)

The following day, a new term is introduced to the logs: “ghostbusters.” A log entry reflects an apparently brief counter UAS exercise lasting about eight minutes.

Though official references are hard to come by, “ghostbuster” is a term sometimes used to refer to lower-end counter UAS devices that look similar to rifles.


A woman test-fires the anti-drone gun known as the DroneDefender.


USS America conducts small craft attack team ("SCAT") drills.


32 posted on 12/18/2021 9:39:11 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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