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2006-01-23 Africa Horn
U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship off Somalia
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Posted by lotp 2006-01-23 09:43|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Bandmaster, strike up the Rogue's March!
Posted by Grunter 2006-01-23 11:01||   2006-01-23 11:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Speaking of ship names, don't we have one named after jimma cartah ?

I can see it now;
The dhow fired warning shots at the Cartah, but the Jimma Cartah had already turned south away from a heard of swimming rabbits and was out of range.
Posted by wxjames 2006-01-23 11:40||   2006-01-23 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 peanut
Here ya go wxjames, The Uss Jimmy Carter
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2006-01-23 11:49||   2006-01-23 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 ;>
The fightin peanut, still it is a SeaWolf. Wished they named it the PissedFish.
Posted by 6 2006-01-23 17:43||   2006-01-23 17:43|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC, the Jimmy Carter's primary role is intelligence. From this, I can only conclude the hull is composed of solid irony.

As for the pirate story, I love the fact that we have a Burke class destroyer named Winston Churchill. I love it! I love Churchill too, but in a manly sort of way, of course. If only our George W. had 1/256th of Winston's speechifying abilities.
Posted by SteveS 2006-01-23 20:18||   2006-01-23 20:18|| Front Page Top

#6 You cannot have Winston Churchill's ability to articulate and present his thoughts unless you drink Plymouth gin and smoke Punch brand cigars of high quality. Cannot be done. Basic laws of physics.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-01-23 22:04||   2006-01-23 22:04|| Front Page Top

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