The last thing you wanted to hear on the bridge underway was, “This the Captain and I have the Conn!”,”Hard Right or Hard Left Rudder and All Back Full!” “Brace yourselves!”
The response was loud and clear, Aye/Aye Captain, “Rudder Hard Right or Hard Left and All Back Full!” Sir! Then, a soft whisper “Oh $hit!”
During the Cold War I had a Russian trawler aggressively charge at my coastal tanker off the Oregon Coast. A professional baseball pitcher could have hit it, it was that close. Zero dark thirty.
This was ROUTINE in my day.
And it’s not a big deal.
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The video has been clipped. Hmmmm
Here is the full version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=109&v=fVXxTS2f8CE
Go to the end of the video, at about the 1:26 mark.
There, you will see on the fantail end of the helo pad that we deployed our secret anti-ship weapon and its operator.
That’s right, the crew-served lawn chair, fully armed. The gunner is a Lazyboy First Class, likely with a SPF-50 firing solution.
Our navy always sounds pussified with this whining about an adversary being “unsafe and unprofessional”. Pinch off your nose when you say it and it sounds about right...like someone tattling to the teacher.
Too bad it wasn’t the USS John S. McCain.
The talking heads are going nuts as is if this was an act of war when in the past more serious and deadly events occured often with NO media knowledge or coverage. Even Shannahan just made a rare public comment on such a “non-event”. Someone is forcing an agenda, responding to a greater threat we are not aware of, or sublety preparing our nation for an actual armed conflict. China, Russia, Iran and others having some kind of orgy we were not invited to. Our Southern border collapsing and being infiltrated. I feel something “eeuuuge” is about to or IS going down. I think the media is playing right into their? Our? Hands. I fear the uninformed, easily misled masses will REALLY have something to cry about very soon.