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U.S. Navy Ship Outruns Pursuing Pirates
UPI ^
| May 7, 2009
Posted on 05/07/2009 10:35:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Suspected pirates failed in an effort to attack a U.S. Navy ship off the eastern coast of Somalia. the Navy said Thursday.
Two skiffs, assumed to be pirate vessels, chased the Lewis and Clark, a dry cargo and ammunition ship supporting the Navy's Fifth Fleet, for more than an hour Wednesday before giving up, CNN reported.
During the pursuit, the skiffs fired small arms at the Lewis and Clark and got within one nautical mile before the ship used evasive maneuvers and pulled out of range.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: maritime; navy; pirates; somalia; somalipirates
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To: nickcarraway
Oh for crying out loud. What have we come to?
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:37:36 AM PDT
by
Stunned
To: nickcarraway
That’s fine and all, but did they then turn around and blow the pirates out of the water?
To: nickcarraway
got within one nautical mile before the ship used evasive maneuvers and pulled out of range Too bad it does not say, before the ship engaged the pirates and blew them out of the water.
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:38:09 AM PDT
by
southlake_hoosier
(.... One Nation, Under God.......)
To: nickcarraway
They couldn't radio in for an air strike?
Oh wait, that takes three days under the current administration...
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:39:03 AM PDT
by
Nachum
(the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: southlake_hoosier
It was a dry cargo and ammunition ship, not a combat vessel.
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:39:27 AM PDT
by
Thane_Banquo
(The GOP: The Big Tent with a Fifth Column.)
To: nickcarraway
Why didn’t the Navy ship fire back? Are we into running from pirates now?
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:40:27 AM PDT
by
RC2
(Put Megan Kelly on the supreme court!)
To: nickcarraway
Is this called the new “tuck tail and run” maneuver by the new McObama’s Navy?
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:40:30 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(I'm all for cap & trade. I want to cap government's power and trade it for a conservative one.)
To: Retired Greyhound
“blow the pitates out of the water”
I’m with you AND at a loss for words. Has 0 ordered this so the US doesn’t look like a bully?
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:41:16 AM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
To: Retired Greyhound
I’m not sure a supply ship is armed that way. Maybe that is why they were targeted.
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:41:55 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: nickcarraway
Let's see, a United States Navy ship is under fire and refuses to return fire. Instead, "They ran away."
This is so stupid.
How about sending the pirates an engraved invitation? Or just hoist a white flag on the yard arm?
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:42:04 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(It's time to waterboard that teleprompter and find out what it knows.)
To: nickcarraway
Time to start re-arming the Supply Ships with 40mm, 3” & 5” deck guns like they had in WWII. Shoot, even a couple of Quad 20mm mounts would wreak havoc with these “Pirates”!
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:43:26 AM PDT
by
shredderman
(Living in a Blue State, with a Blue Wife, But I'm Red to the bone.....)
To: nickcarraway
Run away! Run away!
Hang down your head, Adm. Dewey
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Adm. Dewey
your necktie's caught in your fly.
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:43:35 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs. Emmanuel = Haldeman?)
To: nickcarraway
Not a gun ship.
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:44:59 AM PDT
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: nickcarraway
Obama now has General Monty Python in charge of the Navy.
It’s a man’s live in President Obama’s navy!
runaway runaway runaway!!!!!!!
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:45:11 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: freeangel
Note to the Chicago thugs now running the US: I hereby give you permission to increase my taxes enough to cover whatever it takes to blow two small pirate boats to smithereens.
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:45:12 AM PDT
by
July4
To: nickcarraway; All
Obama now has General Monty Python in charge of the Navy.
It’s a man’s life in President Obama’s navy!
runaway runaway runaway!!!!!!!
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:45:48 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: nickcarraway
Why in the hell didn’t they blow them out of the water. Our Navy gets fired upon by neanderthals in rowboats and we run away??? What have we been reduced to?
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:46:00 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
To: Carry_Okie
It's a USNS vessel - government owned but not part of the combat fleet. They are not armed and do not maintain a full military crew. They actually have a Master with a military adviser, not a USN Captain.
The Military Sealift Command is there to support the U.S. Fleet - I repeat - they are NOT combat vessels.
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posted on
05/07/2009 10:46:29 AM PDT
by
BlueNgold
(... Feed the tree!)
To: spodefly
I looked up USS Lewis and Clark on wikipedia. It’s a Ben Franklin Class atomic sub. Someone got the ship’s name wrong.
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