Posted on 08/10/2004 6:44:34 AM PDT by chambley1
Lanny Davis, on FOX News Hannity and Clones smeared Swift Boat for Truth vet Mr. Gardner by constantly stating his fellow vets never served on Kerry's ship!
It's they're newest trick to smear the truth - make people think Kerry's ship was a destroyer or something - not a "ski" boat with an Evinrude outboard that served side-by-side with other swift boats and CREWS.
The Swift Boat Vet for Truth should take a scale model of their swift boat to all interviews to refute the DNC smear merchants.
A "boat" may be hoisted, a ship cannot.
I requested river patrol twice in 1970 until the Chief told me "Shut the F**k up A**hole, you're not going anywhere". He probably saved my butt and I'm not even grateful.
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That's 'cause you served on subs.
Ain't no chief in da surface navy gonna call his "ship" a boat ....
A bunch of posters got it right in that a boat can be carried by a ship. Let's get quantitative. Floating cranes can safely lift 100 tons. Thus, a vessel displacing 100 tons can be classified as a boat if it can be carried as deck cargo aboard a ship. That would mark the outer limit of what can be called a boat.
"Lanny Davis is a lawyer's lawyer,...."
LOL
I am not a lawyer however, worked with them and know their method of operation and just like any part of society at large there are the negative and the positive.
Lanny serves his masters well, but no more, a "ship" won't fit on a "john" boat, or on those rivers that these Swift Vets patrolled.
Lazarette?
You have your own brand of Cigarettes?
Flack-faced Lannie Davis needs to talk to some of the guys that lived cheek-by-jowl with each other aboard the Swiftboats.
It's obvious that scuttlebutt labelled Kerry as a notorious short-time "gamester" looking to save his own "lily-white ass" so he could plump it down someday in the Oval Office.
As demonsrated by the list of Command personnel now coming out to expose Kerry's duplicity, these guys were one tight-knit group that lived under one invisible roof.
The term "destroyer" is a shortened form of its original name: "torpedo-boat destroyer." As the full name implies, the destroyer was originally intended to screen fleet units (battleships and cruisers) from torpedo boats.
Submarines are called "boats" because of tradition--in the early days of submarine ops, the subs were not big enough to rate the honorific of "ship." Today's USS Ohio (SSBN 726, presently in dock being converted to the first SSGN), at 18,000 tons, is far larger than the last battleship built that bore the name Ohio--but she is still referred to as a "boat."
OK.
btw, I like your resume - very impressive
[actually it's because of the 3d CAD, I work with that type of CAD. If you can design it, you're a genius]
chambley 1 - USCG Base Chetco River, Brookings, Oregon 1983-1984:
"I never went underway with a ship, I went underway with another boat with enough elisted guts on crew to save my elisted ass from the wrath of the Pacific."
.....if John Kerry were a toilet seat, he'd bolt it down just to absorb a leak.
"Still, I heard a heck of a lot of fleet Chiefs calling their ships "my boat" (e.g., Third-Class Angkor, fix those !*(@& comms now, or get the he&& off my $#%$# boat!")"
Yep. It's sort of a term of affection that sailors use for their ship. We used to always refer to going back to the "boat". (Although we weren't all that enamored with it). :)
RIGHT.
Traditionally, so were destroyers, and in 1907 the Royal Navy built what it classed as a "Special Boat" HMS Swift, which at 2200 tons w. 1 x 6" & 2 x 4" guns was larger and more powerful than some contempory cruisers.
The difference between ships and boats is that ships can carry boats, and boats can't.
Two. A three master is a ship.
Not ants...crabs. Estrich has been a Dem whore all her life.
USN A boat is anything you can put on a ship Subs were first launched from a ship(one man) and have been known as a "boat"ever since
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