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2003-10-01 Arabia

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Posted by Steve 2003-10-01 12:39:15 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Shoulda called up Spooky. One quick burst of the minigun and problem solved.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-1 12:46:56 PM|| 2003-10-1 12:46:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 musta been a slow night in the zone.

Posted by john 2003-10-1 12:47:00 PM|| 2003-10-1 12:47:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmm, will Shari'a be involved? One less hand to worry about?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-10-1 12:50:19 PM|| 2003-10-1 12:50:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe this is called "piling on"

"Yar, we be needing new britches..."

Posted by Seafarious 2003-10-1 1:02:41 PM|| 2003-10-1 1:02:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 let's face it the Navy and Air Force haven't had much to do. Something like this gets everybody spun up. BTW good job Coasties, Navy, RAN!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-10-1 1:08:12 PM|| 2003-10-1 1:08:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I believe this is called "piling on"

sounds like "sending a clear message we won't put up with this &^%!" to me ...

Posted by rkb 2003-10-1 1:09:59 PM|| 2003-10-1 1:09:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 ...found several brand new tires, dozens of blankets, 20 flashlights and boxes of batteries strewn about. The items found matched the description of items reported stolen by the dhows.

WTF? Was K-Mart closed or something?

Posted by mojo 2003-10-1 1:25:24 PM|| 2003-10-1 1:25:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 What happened to all that gold and silver and crown jewels that Errol Flynn used to scoop up in those old movies? I guess pirating ain't what it used to be.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-10-1 1:58:29 PM|| 2003-10-1 1:58:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "Yar, we be...Holy shit, Evinrude don't fail me now!"

Classic!

Posted by Daniel King 2003-10-1 2:22:01 PM|| 2003-10-1 2:22:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Stop all speedboats, regardless. There are no speedboats being used for legitimate purposes in that portion of the world. You caould probably find suggled goods on half of the dhows, but that would be too much work.

Posted by Superhose 2003-10-1 3:24:40 PM|| 2003-10-1 3:24:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Easy to put an end to this. Just establish sea lanes (tell the turbantops the rest of the water is mined), fly 'em with either an SH-60 or a SuperCobra at 500 feet, and make sure nobody gets out of hand. When you have something like this, where there's clear evidence the group needs a whacking, do it, hard, fast, and deadly. I don't think it would take much more than two or three for the word to get around the Middle East you don't play water games with the US.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-10-1 5:23:31 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-10-1 5:23:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The Persian Gulf is a very odd place on the water. The water is almost totally calm, so there are dhows all over the place. I doubt that many of the dhow captains could be communicated with meaningfully. The speedboats are all fast movers and head from one coast to another on high rate of speed smuggling missions. Stealing a set of tires and a load of blankets would be seem like a waste of time for a smuggler.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-1 10:16:56 PM|| 2003-10-1 10:16:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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