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Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 05/26/2024 Vol.493, Q Day 2403
qalerts.app ^ | 5/26/2024 | FReeQs, FReepers, LurQers and Vanity

Posted on 05/26/2024 1:16:50 PM PDT by ransomnote

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To: ransomnote
***US Losing Faith Zelensky***

Why should Zelensky 'win the war'? He's squirreling away hundreds of millions of $$$ and all that it is costing him is thousands of lives and playing host to groups of greedy Americans...

3,041 posted on 06/13/2024 7:35:46 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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3,042 posted on 06/13/2024 7:45:58 PM PDT by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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*timer rings* *retrieving oven mitts*


3,043 posted on 06/13/2024 8:13:54 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote; 103198; 31R1O; Hemingway's Ghost; acrolect; Aevery_Freeman; Airforce Sister; ...

PING - NEW Q THREAD 

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3,044 posted on 06/13/2024 8:18:38 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: NorthstarMom; Noumenon; numberonepal; Ol' Sox; OLDCU; Oorang; Oratam; Oscar in Batangas; ...

PING - NEW Q THREAD 

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3,045 posted on 06/13/2024 8:19:03 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Come for the Festival, are ya?


3,046 posted on 06/13/2024 8:24:21 PM PDT by Keflavik76 (Fret not thyself because of evildoers)
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To: numberonepal; OldWarBaby; ransomnote
I have a "One Ping Only" sea story that predates The Hunt for Red October."

In 1981, I had just made LT and was waiting to rotate on to shore duty we were scheduled at the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) range off Andros Island, Bahamas. We were cruising from Ft. Lauderdale over to the Bahamas overnight. I had the mid-watch (0000-0400) as Tactical Action Officer (TAO) in Combat Information Center (CIC) when I get a call from sonar.

"Combat, Sonar what's the call sign for the Shark?" We were scheduled to play against the USS Shark (SSN-591) the next day. I told the Chief not to burn the place down, make a note of the Shark's call sign, and stepped aft into Sonar.

The PO of the watch in Sonar was ST2 Nichols, a very sharp sailor. "OK, Nichols, what do you need the Shark's call sign for." "Well sir, we've got the Shark at 3200 yards on the starboard quarter and we wanted to call her on the Gertrude (underwater telephone). "How do you know it's the shark?" This very young STSN piped up pointing to the rainfall display. "Well sir, we've got this line, this line, and this line. There are only three boats in the world with those exact lines, two are in the Pacific, one is the Shark, and we're supposed to play with her in the morning.

OK, good job, solid reasoning. "Nichols, you know they won't answer." "Of course sir, but they'll know we spotted them and won't like it." "Hang on, let me clear this with the OOD." The Officer of the Deck (OOD) that night was the Operations Officer my boss, and a former enlisted diesel submarine sonar tech. I explained the situation. "They won't answer." "I told Nichols that boss." He chuckled. "Go ahead."

I gave Nichols the call sign. He called them up on the Gertrude with predictable non results. I should have known better than to ask but my brain couldn't stop my lips in time. "OK, now what Nichols?" "Well ... sir, ... we do need to test the 26 (AN/SPS-26 sonar) in active before we play tomorrow." "I absolutely need to clear this one with the boss."

I called the bridge and explained. I got the famous answer, a very stern, "One ping ONLY!!!"

I had never heard of the term "malicious compliance" before, but I think this was an excellent example. I need to give a little explanation as to why this was such a stern admonition and why the one ping that followed was so devastating. The AN/SQS-26 sonar was a VERY powerful bow mounted sonar with some very advanced features. We also happened to be in the mouth of the Grand Bahama Channel about 20NM south of Freeport, Bahamas. The channel is not very deep and has a bottom of almost perfectly flat, hard packed sand.

I watched Nichols configure the 26 sonar for bottom bounce track and keyed the ping. This meant that he focused all the power of the sonar into a little window and aimed it down to bounce off the sand and come up underneath the Shark.

I think everyone on our ship heard the ping, I'm pretty sure every vessel within 15 NM heard the ping even without a hydrophone. I KNOW everyone on the Shark heard the ping. For the Sonar techs it was like going from listening to a babbling brook to a Death metal concert turned up to 12 in a fraction of a second.

When Nichols keyed the ping, I turned and looked at the rainfall display. One line after another disappeared and then the Shark was gone. They kicked our butts the next day but even our CO thought it was worth it to get in first licks.

SpyNavy

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

3,047 posted on 06/13/2024 8:42:41 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: numberonepal

I heard that, young man!


3,048 posted on 06/13/2024 9:07:52 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: LonePalm

The Shark must have planned their revenge the rest of the night.


3,049 posted on 06/13/2024 9:09:54 PM PDT by Keflavik76 (Fret not thyself because of evildoers)
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To: Melian

Except in my case I work from home and my wife worked in the kitchen at a private school. Saint Marks. I had to keep a full time job in software engineering, take care of a cat, two Great Pyrenees, and three chickens, do the dishes, keep the house clean, and get whatever I need to get done outside like cut the grass, etc.

Fortunately the school year is over so now my jobs have lessened and I’ll actually be able to get up to our place in NH to get crap done there, which has been woefully neglected for too long.

No kids anymore. Mine is 26, married, with a son and a home owner.

Wealth? I still have means. We’re comfortable. That could change at any moment.

-SB


3,050 posted on 06/13/2024 9:43:32 PM PDT by Snowybear (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: ransomnote

Why did they burst into flames?


3,051 posted on 06/13/2024 9:55:16 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Nothing Can Stop What Coming)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; All
29 ways to cheat in an election. The results will reflect how many we were able to stop. We didn't stop enough in 2020. Smartest thing we could do at this point is forget the issues and just concentrate on how much of the steal we can stop. Lara Trump gets it she's all over the steal,we need to help her.

Here's Lara with her father in law the boss:


3,052 posted on 06/14/2024 3:09:00 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT))
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3,053 posted on 06/14/2024 4:27:28 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: LonePalm

Loved that story!


3,054 posted on 06/14/2024 4:33:51 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: ransomnote

Ha ha!! thank you my friend!! We need our rest an relaxation as well!! Blessings!
lex


3,055 posted on 06/14/2024 8:40:43 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: LonePalm

Shark? I never worked on a single Skipjack class boat. I think the Atlantic fleet hogged them all. In’81 you must have been riding a Sturgeon Class? Or were you on a brand new LA Class? I worked on every Sturgeon that was based in the Pacific. We did bunches of sonar upgrades, Queenfish comes to mind, and it was fun to watch the crews fine tune the new stuff whenever they took me hostage for a trial.


3,056 posted on 06/14/2024 1:57:55 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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Nope, just a one lung Hughes-class frigate. We were the test bed for a number of nice bits of kit.

SpyNavy

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

3,057 posted on 06/14/2024 3:02:08 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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