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1 posted on 09/16/2011 11:50:12 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Command the seas? Are you serious?

Americans want to command their smart phones, while watching the Kardashians.

We can’t afford our navy, and it will gradually be mothballed.

Then we can do as China tells us to do.


2 posted on 09/16/2011 11:56:02 AM PDT by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Don’t let Obama know how much we need carriers. He’ll cut their budgets, and redistribute the funds to union jobs and green energy.


3 posted on 09/16/2011 11:57:06 AM PDT by pallis
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Aforementioned hull crack USS Princeton CG59... Photobucket
5 posted on 09/16/2011 12:05:00 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: sukhoi-30mki

“...and Sea King helicopters taxi, take off, land and park on the warship’s four and a half acre flight deck”

I live in San Diego and I have not seen a Sea King helicopter in years.


13 posted on 09/16/2011 12:24:17 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Obama: “Where are the carriers?”

Aide: “At the piers, where you ordered them.”


18 posted on 09/16/2011 12:43:04 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: magslinger

ping


22 posted on 09/16/2011 1:10:58 PM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: Vroomfondel; SC Swamp Fox; Fred Hayek; NY Attitude; P3_Acoustic; investigateworld; lowbuck; ...
SONOBUOY PING!

Photobucket Click on pic for past Navair pings. Post or FReepmail me if you wish to be enlisted in or discharged from the Navair Pinglist. The only requirement for inclusion in the Navair Pinglist is an interest in Naval Aviation. This is a medium to low volume pinglist.

24 posted on 09/16/2011 1:57:45 PM PDT by magslinger (To properly protect your family you need a bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

How? They can no longer do effective ASW. Chinese subs will sink our carriers in the first week of our next war with them.


25 posted on 09/16/2011 2:54:48 PM PDT by pabianice (")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

USS Oriskany and USS Nimitz.


27 posted on 09/17/2011 6:26:12 AM PDT by CPOSharky (The only thing straight, white, Christian males get is the blame for everything.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
A shot from the deck:
29 posted on 09/17/2011 10:51:30 AM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight (“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.")
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To: namsman

Ping!


31 posted on 09/17/2011 11:07:55 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Lehman rocks Navy with complaints about political correctness

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/18/lehman-rocks-navy-complaints-about-political-corre/print/


35 posted on 09/18/2011 11:56:00 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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