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US Deploys Second Aircraft Carrier In Persian Gulf With 60 Warplanes
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| October 20, 2010
| Special Report
Posted on 10/20/2010 10:12:47 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: UCANSEE2
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
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posted on
10/20/2010 12:54:23 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono
This is so Photoshopped! The air boss and the captain would have exploding heads(and commands) if they ever allowed this.
To: Fennie
Does Obama know about this? Or Reid? Or Kerry? Or Fonda?
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posted on
10/20/2010 6:11:49 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Fennie
I don’t know, but this sounds like a routine rotation.
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posted on
10/20/2010 6:59:33 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: clamper1797
I was in the Gulf of Tonkin on a tin can from 04/72 thru 10/72. We plane guarded for several of the carriers over there when we weren’t providing NGFS.
To: longhorn too; clamper1797
During Vietnam, Australia operated what had been its second aircraft carrier (HMAS Sydney) as a 'fast troop transport'.
As it was getting close to port, some American pilot saw it from a distance and reported an aircraft carrier approaching Vung Tau. This apparently caused a bit of consternation - the Americans knew they didn't have a carrier in the area, so whose could it be. An alert went out and a US fighter plane was dispatched to have a closer look.
He overflew the Sydney and reported back.
"I don't think we need to worry - it looks like it's about to launch a bunch of trucks at us."
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posted on
10/21/2010 7:32:24 AM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
"I don't think we need to worry - it looks like it's about to launch a bunch of trucks at us."
Funny story. But those 6 byes can run you over!!!
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