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USS Reuben James Assists Fisherman in Arabian Sea
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Posted on 04/24/2006 4:11:10 PM PDT by SandRat
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At sea with USS Rueben James (FFG 57) Sep. 23, 2002 -- An aerial view of the U.S. Navy guided missile frigate USS Reuben James (FFG 57). Frigates fulfill a protection of shipping (POS) mission as Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups and merchant convoys. Rueben James is a part of the USS Abraham Lincoln Battle group and is on a scheduled six-month deployment conducting combat missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 2nd Class Aaron Ansarov. (RELEASED)
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:11:14 PM PDT
by
SandRat
To: 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 80 Square Miles; A Ruckus of Dogs; acad1228; AirForceMom; ..
NAVY Cares and follows the law of the Sea for Ships in Distress.
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:11:57 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
What were their names? I have a friend on the good Reuben James.
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:16:10 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:30:07 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
USS Reuben James was one of the vessels in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", was it not???
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:30:50 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts!!)
To: Bean Counter
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:31:24 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Bean Counter; SandRat
I think he also used the name in either the book or the movie adaptation of The Hunt for Red October
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:33:04 PM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq)
To: Bean Counter
USS Reuben James was one of the vessels in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", was it not??You are correct. In the novel, a Royal Navy vessel, HMS Battleaxe, asks, "What is a Reuben James?". The reply: "At least we don't name our ships after our mother-in-law."
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:34:35 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: SandRat
Don't have that.Really? She's run by hard fighting men both of honor and of fame.
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posted on
04/24/2006 4:46:11 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: buccaneer81
LOL.
Wasn't she sunk in the book, just like her namesake?
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posted on
04/24/2006 5:01:09 PM PDT
by
rmlew
(Sedition and Treason are both crimes, not free speech.)
To: rmlew
Wasn't she sunk in the book,That, I don't recall.
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posted on
04/24/2006 5:10:57 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: rmlew
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posted on
04/24/2006 5:18:51 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: July 4th
Different boat, of course.
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posted on
04/24/2006 5:19:08 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: Alter Kaker
Really? She's run by hard fighting men both of honor and of fame. She flew the Stars and Stripes of the land of the free. But tonight she's in her grave at the bottom of the sea.
To: SandRat
Ballad of the Reuben James
Pete Seeger and Woodie Guthrie 1942
Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James
Manned by hard fighting men both of honor and fame?
She flew the Stars and Stripes of the land of the free
But tonight she's in her grave at the bottom of the sea.
CHORUS:
Tell me what were their names, tell me what were their names,
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
One hundred men were drowned in that dark watery grave
When that good ship went down only forty-four were saved.
'Twas the last day of October we saved the forty-four
From the cold icy waters off that cold Iceland shore.
It was there in the dark of that uncertain night
That we watched for the U-boats and waited for a fight.
Then a whine and a rock and a great explosion roared
And they laid the Reuben James on that cold ocean floor.
Now tonight there are lights in our country so bright
In the farms and in the cities they're telling of the fight.
And now our mighty battleships will steam the bounding main
And remember the name of that good Reuben James.
To: edwin hubble
From back when you could be a leftist and still believe in defending America.
To: Celtjew Libertarian
Of course, the Seeger-Guthrie leftists only believed in defending america after June 1941, when Hitler attacked Stalin. Before that, Seeger wrote pacifist, don't be beastly to Hitler, songs, since Hitler was an ally of Stalin at that time.
There certainly were leftists who were pro-America and Anti-Hitler from the get-go, or at least since 1938, but many of them were Troskyites who later became Neo-Cons.
To: SandRat
Pretty ship. Interesting that the one apparent gun is mounted amidships and high rather than on the fore deck near the nose cone, bow to all you skimmers. What ever happened to tradition?;)
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posted on
04/24/2006 6:20:07 PM PDT
by
Nuc1
(NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
To: July 4th
Thanks for that post. I think I know who and what Guthrie was but I will have more respect next time I hear "This land is your land" or "Roll Columbia Roll". Did not know he tried to get into the Merchant Marine.
To: SandRat
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posted on
04/25/2006 3:23:16 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
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