Not a good way to start off a port visit.
To: GATOR NAVY
ruh rohhhh - there goes another captains career.
2 posted on
10/24/2008 12:30:35 PM PDT by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(An inadequately policed Conservative)
To: GATOR NAVY
“Little to the left, little more, just a little more...BAM! Right, right, go right!”
3 posted on
10/24/2008 12:30:44 PM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: GATOR NAVY
I just have to think the ‘Providential Hand’ is telling us something here...
To: GATOR NAVY
We should not be in any port where we have to turn control of a naval vessel over to foreigners.
8 posted on
10/24/2008 12:37:14 PM PDT by
ex-snook
("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
To: GATOR NAVY
The Barry left Norfolk in August to join a standing naval maritime group overseas and provide regional security. More recently, it has been operating on its own in the Black Sea Double entendre alert...
9 posted on
10/24/2008 12:38:11 PM PDT by
gov_bean_ counter
( Sarah Palin is America's Margaret Thatcher; Obama is America's George Galloway.)
To: GATOR NAVY
The port of Samsun. Too bad this doesn't have a distance scale. I'm guessing they were shooting for somewhere around berths 10-12.
10 posted on
10/24/2008 12:39:11 PM PDT by
GATOR NAVY
(guess I'm just a spudboy)
To: GATOR NAVY
here’s hoping that another destroyer Barry runs aground before election day.
17 posted on
10/24/2008 12:53:16 PM PDT by
DannyTN
(`)
To: GATOR NAVY
Barry runs aground? Sounds like another Ayers-inspired phrase on behalf of Obama - did he write another nautical-themed book?
18 posted on
10/24/2008 12:53:40 PM PDT by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: GATOR NAVY
Navigation by Braille is rarely career-enhancing.
22 posted on
10/24/2008 1:01:08 PM PDT by
SmithL
(Drill Dammit!)
To: GATOR NAVY
USS Barry
24 posted on
10/24/2008 1:05:38 PM PDT by
ladtx
( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
To: GATOR NAVY
Well, I guess the Navy will be promoting a commander to captain early this year.
To: GATOR NAVY
The destroyer Barry ran aground Thursday...Let's hope that the same thing happens to the true destroyer "Barry", who's socialist ideals threaten to destroy what was once the greatest, most prosperous nation on earth.
30 posted on
10/24/2008 1:17:59 PM PDT by
meyer
(We are all Joe the Plumber)
To: GATOR NAVY
Hmmm...
“Barry”....the “Destroyer”.....ran aground???
In a Black Sea port???
32 posted on
10/24/2008 1:26:58 PM PDT by
G Larry
(BarackÂ’s character has been molded by extremists)
To: GATOR NAVY
I doubt they would relieve the captain?
Shouldn’t be much if any damage done from running aground on silt (soft mud). And although the captain is ultimately responsible, it would seem reasonable enough to let the pilot do his work.
The only alternative would probably be to spend extra hours sending people out to sound the bottom before maneuvering in. And showing that you don’t trust the local pilot isn’t a good way to make friends on a port visit.
As long as they were keeping it reasonably slow, I should think the captain would be exonerated, although you can’t always second guess what the chain of command will come up with.
33 posted on
10/24/2008 1:27:02 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: GATOR NAVY
Barry... the destroyer... BLACK sea...
38 posted on
10/24/2008 1:40:30 PM PDT by
Old Sarge
(Illic Est Haud Deus)
To: GATOR NAVY
56 posted on
10/24/2008 3:35:11 PM PDT by
Deetes
(N0BAMA)
To: GATOR NAVY
is there a bow ray-dome on that class???
60 posted on
10/24/2008 5:07:33 PM PDT by
Chode
(American Hedonist - McCain/Palin'08 = http://www.johnmccain.com/)
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