Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: All

Fishing trip off Key West coast encounters nuclear submarine USS Georgia

(snip) (pic at link)

The men put down their fishing poles and Miller Lite, and watched. Before them was the USS Georgia, about as long as the Tampa skyline is tall. Crew members stood on top of the vessel, looking out at the waves.

The sub, wrote Navy Commander Patrick W. McNally in an e-mail, was being used for routine dive training to prepare “operators for possible missions overseas.” McNally wouldn’t share specifics “due to the sensitive nature of special operations.”

Schermerhorn and Marlowe learned that when five boats stocked with machine guns approached. Men in sunglasses and black fatigues told them to move 2,000 yards away. Marlowe grabbed the boat’s wheel. Schermerhorn held his camera....

http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/article1011517.ece


915 posted on 06/18/2009 7:03:57 PM PDT by Velveeta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 914 | View Replies ]


To: All

The Conspiracy to Establish a Jihad Training Camp in Bly, Oregon

http://www.rightsidenews.com/200906195174/global-terrorism/the-conspiracy-to-establish-a-jihad-training-camp-in-bly-oregon.html


916 posted on 06/18/2009 9:03:04 PM PDT by Velveeta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 915 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson