Posted on 09/18/2017 9:31:40 AM PDT by Rebelbase
[snip] An image posted to a Pentagon media site and tweeted by Scottish journalist Ian Keddie shows the USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine, returning to her home port in Washington Tuesday flying the American flag alongside the unmistakable pirate skull and crossed bones, known as the Jolly Roger.
The 450-foot-long vessel is one of three in its class and is specially modified to conduct some of America’s most covert underwater operations. That fact alone — as Keddie points out — makes the appearance of the black and white flag significant. The Carter, according to photos posted in April, also flew the Jolly Roger returning from its last patrol.
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Bad to the bone....
It sank the rabbit?
What else can you expect from Jimmy Carter?
Maybe its where they put all the LGBTQ sailors?
Maybe its where they put all the LGBTQ sailors?
It looks like it was modified in someone’s back yard.
I have two friends with a long history of serving on our boomers or retrofitting them for special underwater ops.
I sent this pic to them, and they had zero knowledge of what that flag meant.
They both said the broom upside down signified a clean sweep of ops and/or exercisers.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day?
I call them “alphabet people” sailors.
I am betting the sub and several other vessels have been doing interdiction off the coast of north Korea. I think one of the reasons we have had navy ships colliding with merchant vessels this year is that the ships were doing interdiction... My bet is the Jimmy carter had been successful in interception of a ship carrying key components for the missile systems that Korea has been launching.
LOL!
They sank something..................
Why no comment on that little wrinkle on the sub?
(lower right of pic)
Pirates take things that don’t belong to them:
Blind guess says it has something to do with recovering missile components off somewhere near Japan or North Korea.
Lol.
Because: military humor.
Not that I expect WaPo to understand that.
...In 1940, the submarine HMS Osiris infiltrated the Adriatic Sea, a body of water that then-Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini said could not be penetrated. Once inside, the Osiris sank the Italian destroyer Palestro. Upon its return to one of the British flotillas in the Mediterranean, the flotilla’s commander signaled to the Osiris that the submarine would fly a special recognition following its successful mission and that the Osiris was “not to come alongside until the identity signal is showing,” Compton-Hall wrote. A launch from the flotilla then delivered a package marked “JR” to the Osiris. Inside, was the iconic black and white pirate flag, which the Osiris then proudly ran up its tower before reuniting with the flotilla. From then on, flotilla commanders awarded the Jolly Roger to submarines after their first successes.
>>the USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine,
We have a NUCLEAR SUB named for the peanut farmer that deliberately torpedoed America’s lead in nuclear power development, and nearly destroyed our navy in four years? Who’s the genius that named it?
Husband recalls the Carter pulling into Cape Canaveral when he was the Port Ops officer.
The Jimmy Carter, as he so eloquently puts it, had a load of “super secret squirrel shit” on board and leaves it to my imagination as to what she could be up to when she deploys.
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